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  Last update: 22:13 GMT 29.10.2020

  22:13 GMT 29.10.2020

  Business

  Intercept Co-Founder Glenn Greenwald Resigns Over 'Censorship' of Anti-Biden Content

  Journalist Glenn Greenwald, one of three co-founding editors of The Intercept, has announced his departure from the outlet he helped create, claiming his “contractual right of editorial freedom” was violated by editors who demanded he remove article contents critical of Democratic presidential nominee and former US Vice President Joe Biden.

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  Last update: 19:00 GMT 29.10.2020

  19:00 GMT 29.10.2020

  Military & Intelligence

  Watch: US Air Force Test-Fires 50-Year-Old Minuteman III ICBM

  In its fourth scheduled test of 2020, the US Air Force launched an unarmed LGM-30 Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) early Thursday morning to verify the half-century-old rocket’s instruments still work. The Pentagon recently signed a deal for Northrop Grumman to build the Minuteman III’s replacement.

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  Last update: 23:02 GMT 29.10.2020

  23:02 GMT 29.10.2020

  Opinion

  'Folks Are Not Showing Up': US COVID-19 Spikes Deterring Families From Routine Health Screenings

  COVID-19 is deterring people from obtaining preventative treatment, which is likely to reverberate through the US public health and insurance systems, Dr. Yolandra Hancock, board-certified pediatrician and obesity medicine specialist, told Radio Sputnik’s Political Misfits Thursday.

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  Last update: 19:41 GMT 29.10.2020

  19:41 GMT 29.10.2020

  Society

  Over 80% of COVID-19 Patients at Spanish Hospital Had Vitamin D Deficiency - Study

  A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism finds that more than 80% of over 200 COVID-19 patients in a hospital in Spain had vitamin D deficiency, suggesting that vitamin D may play a role in immune system function as it pertains to the novel coronavirus.

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  Last update: 21:31 GMT 29.10.2020

  21:31 GMT 29.10.2020

  Tech

  Researchers Suggest Flu Shots May Help Protect Against COVID-19

  A new medical study that has not yet been peer-reviewed suggests that getting your flu shot could help protect against getting COVID-19 as well.

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  Last update: 14:06 GMT 29.10.2020

  14:06 GMT 29.10.2020

  World

  'Cruel Crime', 'Horrible Tragedy' & 'Barbaric Attack': World Leaders on Deadly Stabbing in Nice, France

  On Thursday morning, a knife rampage in and near a church in Nice left at least three people dead, including one woman who was reportedly beheaded; several people were injured. France has now opened an investigation into the attack over “killing linked to a terrorist organisation”, as President Macron has just arrived to the city.

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  Last update: 19:47 GMT 29.10.2020

  19:47 GMT 29.10.2020

  Asia & Pacific

  Photo: Taiwan Grounds Entire F-5E Tiger II Fleet After Fighter Jet Crashes, Pilot Dies

  Taipei ordered all of its F-5E Tiger II fighter jets grounded on Thursday after a jet crashed shortly after takeoff and the pilot died in a parachuting mishap.

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  Last update: 04:31 GMT 29.10.2020

  04:31 GMT 29.10.2020

  World

  Live Updates: All EU Countries Will Simultaneously Receive COVID-19 Vaccine

  The global death toll from the coronavirus infection has topped 1.173 million; over 44.4 million cases have been detected, and almost 29.9 million of those have recovered, according to Baltimore, Maryland's Johns Hopkins University, which tracks and compiles data from national and local authorities, the media and other sources.