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8 Jan

#BREAKING Twitter permanently suspends Trump account after Capitol riots over 'risk of further incitement of violence'

#UPDATE Twitter said its decision to permanently block Trump's account came after "close review of recent tweets" u.afp.com/UJj9

#BREAKING Trump accuses Twitter of conspiring 'to silence me'

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8 Jan

#BREAKING Trump says 'will not be going to the Inauguration' of Biden

Flags over the US Capitol were lowered to half-staff Friday after the death of a police officer took to five the number of people who died after President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the legislature
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#UPDATE President Donald Trump announced Friday he will skip Joe Biden's inauguration in a final, unrepentant act of division as his presidency imploded amid demands that he step aside for the last 12 days in office
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8 Jan

#BREAKING EU doubles BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine pre-order to 600 million doses: von der Leyen

#BREAKING BioNTech says vaccine 'neutralises' key mutation in UK, S. Africa strains

#BREAKING EU could approve AstraZeneca vaccine by end-January: EMA

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8 Jan

#BREAKING US sets new record with nearly 4,000 Covid deaths in one day: Johns Hopkins

#UPDATE US counts a record number of daily coronavirus deaths at nearly 4,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

The 3,998 deaths were recorded over the 24 hour period ending at 8:30 pm local time (0130 GMT Friday)

'So much death': Los Angeles hospital reels at center of Covid storm.

Well-accustomed to death, medics at a hospital in one of the city's poorest districts say they have never seen anything on this scale

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