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Saudi to host online G20 summit amid pandemic, recession

Usually an opportunity for one-on-one engagements between world leaders, meet is reduced to brief online sessions

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Thai MPs to vote on reforms a day after 6 protesters shot

Bangkok rocked by youth-led rallies for months

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Muslim Pro denies selling users’ personal data to US military

Data allegedly bought through third-party broker X-Mode

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Israel launches strikes on Syria

Strikes on Syrian, Iranian targets kill 3 soldiers

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South Australia announces ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdown

We must act swiftly and decisively, says prime minister

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Trump fires US cybersecurity chief

US president says statement by Chris Krebs on security of recent election ‘highly inaccurate’

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Canada proposes major fines for firms that violate privacy laws

Fines would max out 5% of company's revenue or even higher

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Iota, weakened but deadly, rips through Central America

Iota, which made landfall in Nicaragua as a "catastrophic" Category 5 hurricane Monday, left six dead in Nicaragua

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Palestinian authority restores coordination with Israel

Meanwhile, Hamas says the move is ‘a stab in the back’

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US to slash troop levels in Iraq, Afghanistan

Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller said around 2,000 troops would be pulled from Afghanistan by January 15

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UK to ban petrol, diesel cars from 2030 in green 'revolution'

The government will also spend £525 million on developing large and smaller-scale nuclear plants

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US Senate blocks Trump's controversial Fed candidate

Two Republicans joined Democrats in opposing Judy Shelton

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Twitter CEO says no bias on platform against conservatives

Social network’s filtering of US election campaign was not a sign of bias, despite claims to the contrary by conservatives