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  Last update: 11:57 GMT 27.02.2021

  11:57 GMT 27.02.2021

  US

  Not Cold War Anymore: US Prof Explains Why Dems Looking to Limit Biden's Nuclear Strike Power

  The news about House Democrats proposing to limit the US president's ability to launch nukes prompted some netizens to link the initiative with unsubstantiated allegations of POTUS Joe Biden's deteriorating mental capabilities. However, the authors of the open letter to the president claimed they only had "checks and balances" in mind.

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  Last update: 12:21 GMT 27.02.2021

  12:21 GMT 27.02.2021

  Africa

  Violence Persists in Ethiopia's Tigray Amid Reports of Hundreds Killed Last Year in City Said to Be Home to Ark of the Covenant

  The armed standoff between the Ethiopian federal government and militants from the country's Tigray region has already claimed thousands of lives and forced almost a million people to flee their homes.

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  Last update: 11:53 GMT 27.02.2021

  11:53 GMT 27.02.2021

  World

  Bill Gates Offers Optimistic Outlook on Coronavirus Pandemic

  The development comes several days after the Microsoft co-founder announced that he had taken the second jab of a coronavirus vaccine. Gates has not revealed which inoculation he took, but given that the United States has so far only approved the inoculations developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, he presumably received one of the two.

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  Last update: 11:48 GMT 27.02.2021

  11:48 GMT 27.02.2021

  Military & Intelligence

  Media Claims US Submarine Was Ready to Sink Russian Warships After 2018 Strike in Syria

  MOSCOW (Sputnik) - USS John Warner, a Virginia-class submarine of the United States navy, was prepared to sink Russian warships should they respond to the US airstrike in Syria in April 2018, Fox News reported on Friday.

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  Last update: 09:17 GMT 27.02.2021

  09:17 GMT 27.02.2021

  UK

  No Scottish Referendum 'in the Foreseeable Future', Johnson Says as He Calls to Defeat COVID

  In late January, Boris Johnson said the "endless talk" about a possible second Scottish referendum is completely irrelevant to a majority of people in the UK.

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  Last update: 08:39 GMT 27.02.2021

  08:39 GMT 27.02.2021

  Society

  Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Net Worth is Surprisingly Moderate, Report Says

  Reports say the couple will spill the beans about their decision to quit royal life and move to the United States when they sit down for an interview with iconic talk show host Oprah Winfrey. The interview will be aired on 7 March on CBS.

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  Last update: 11:08 GMT 27.02.2021

  11:08 GMT 27.02.2021

  Tech

  Gripping Ripples: NASA Stunned by Perplexing Stripes Dotting Russia's Arctic Siberia in Satellite Pics

  Waves and creases along the banks of Siberia's Markha River appear to look more like stripes in recently published images, yet it remains unknown if the geological build-up is solely responsible for the weird pattern.

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  Last update: 04:30 GMT 27.02.2021

  04:30 GMT 27.02.2021

  World

  Live Updates: Germany Confirms 9,762 New Coronavirus Cases

  The global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic is now over 2.5 million, while the number of COVID-19 cases has surpassed 113 million worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University.