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As-it-happens update 16 December 2017
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It's really hard to imagine a scenario in which Republicans can repeal Obamacare with a 51-seat Senate majority when they couldn't do it with a 52-seat majority. Doug Jones might have ended Obamacare repeal for good when he won the Alabama Senate seat on Tuesday. The two Republican ...
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They are diseases that threaten more than physical health: memories, personality, and the ability to move and speak are incrementally stolen. And until this year neurodegenerative diseases, from Alzheimer's to ALS, had been entirely unstoppable. However, a breakthrough in Huntington's disease this ...
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How many asylum seekers are there in Germany? Since 2011, the year that the Arab Spring destabilized many Middle Eastern countries, around 1.6 million people have applied for asylum in Germany. To be exact 1.55 million first-time applications were made between 2011 and 2016, with over half of ...
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Samsung is reportedly planning to announce its next flagship phone, the Galaxy S9, in February, according to a report from Bloomberg, with the phones launching as early as March. If true, it'd be one of the earliest announcements for a new model of Samsung's main Galaxy line, which have typically ...
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As Alexis Petridis noted in these pages, the most interesting thing about the rapper in 2017 is his decision to turn on many of the people who will have backed him for years. There's little doubt that past Eminem anthems have provided solace or angry catharsis for the kind of kid that goes all out on 4Chan ...
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At the University of Portsmouth we embed real-life work experience in most of our courses as well as the latest technology. For example, some of our students experience "virtual field trips". The division between science and the humanities is also becoming obsolete – as is suggested by our own School ...
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On Wednesday, T-Mobile announced that it plans to launch an internet TV service sometime in 2018. The carrier is in the process of acquiring Layer3 TV for an undisclosed sum to help jumpstart the new offering. In typical T-Mobile fashion, CEO John Legere vowed that this TV service will radically ...
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The international trade in ivory has been banned since 1990, but China, among other countries, maintained a thriving ivory trade within its borders. Conservationists say this trade has contributed to the slaughter of 30,000 African elephants each year. Making good on a 2015 pledge, however, China ...
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The cards, which are issued by companies including MasterCard and Visa, can be loaded with cash and used online and in shops without need for the same checks as are made on debit and credit card payments. After the terrorist attacks in Paris, French authorities found that the perpetrators had used ...
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Arts Council England has sounded the alarm for literary fiction with a report revealing a collapse in sales, advances and book pricing that has left authors unable to support themselves through writing alone. UK sales of general fiction slumped from £216m in 2010 to £143m last year, with the market ...
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