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BREAKING: Britain scrambles fighter jets after detecting unidentified aircraft approaching its airspace, the defence ministry says reut.rs/3rkXvwd
Britain intercepted and escorted four Russian bomber aircraft approaching its area of interest earlier, a Royal Air Force spokesman says
Russian President Vladimir Putin and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson discussed Ukraine and the issue of security guarantees for Russia in a phone call on Wednesday, the Kremlin said reut.rs/3rvqYUp
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Russian President Vladimir Putin on a call that any incursion into Ukraine would be a tragic miscalculation, Johnson's office said in a statement reut.rs/3ufo9Zg

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Being inside Beijing's 'closed loop' means athletes, media and delegates are restricted to moving between their accommodation and Olympic venues on official transport.

So the only way to enjoy the site of one of the New Seven Wonders of the World is by gazing out a car window
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Mixed doubles curling was set to open competition in #Beijing2022 as the shadow of war in Ukraine - and the impending arrival of Putin - loomed over a Winter Games already transformed by the coronavirus pandemic reut.rs/3ukmcuK
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EXCLUSIVE: Russia's military buildup near Ukraine has expanded to include supplies of blood along with other medical materials that would allow it to treat casualties, a key indicator of Moscow's military readiness, three U.S. officials tell @Reuters reut.rs/3G3pCnK 1/5
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🐱 The Biden family finally has a cat.

First lady Jill Biden's office has announced America's first family is excited to welcome a two-year-old, gray-and-white-striped feline named Willow to the White House reut.rs/33ZRsEr 1/4
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A school board in Tennessee has voted to remove the Holocaust-themed graphic novel 'Maus' from its eighth-grade language arts curriculum, citing profanity and nudity contained in the Pulitzer Prize-winning work by cartoonist Art Spiegelman reut.rs/3KRpjA0
The 10-0 vote by the McMinn County Board of Education in Athens, Tennessee, located about 150 miles southeast of Nashville, came on Jan. 10 but gained wide U.S. media attention, ironically coinciding with International Holocaust Remembrance Day
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On #HolocaustRemembranceDay, Centenarian Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlaender urged the young generation to always remember the Nazi genocide and denounced the use by some anti-COVID vaccination protesters of the yellow star Jews were forced to wear reut.rs/3KNsKYo 1/6
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She was referring to some demonstrators at anti-vaccination protests who have pinned yellow star badges to their clothes, reminiscent of the cloth badges the Nazis forced Jews to wear to mark them as outsiders 3/6
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