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The World This Week: Mars landing, Vaccine strategy, Texas cold snap, France's "Islamo-leftism" row

FRANCE24, 20 Feb 2021
Nasa's #Perseverance Rover successfully touching down on the Jezero crater in Mars. It is the delicate first step in a mission to bring back to earth in 2031 actual soil samples from the Red Planet.

Here on earth a different race: to roll out #vaccines faster than new variants can spread. On that score, the new U-S president Joe Biden pledge four billion dollars to the UN's Covax vaccine distribution programme. 

Also how #TedCruz attracted the ire of freezing Texans and France's row over a #Macron minister's call to weed out 'Islamo-leftism' in universities.

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Remembering 5 extraordinary people who lost their lives to COVID-19

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Why more than 1.6 million Chinese people have left areas in the northeast to move south

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Activists protest at Subway HQ in Paris to denounce animal 'cruelty'

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Press Preview - A first look inside Saturday's newspapers

Sky, 27 Feb 2021
See what's making Saturday morning's newspaper headlines with Daily Mirror columnist Susie Boniface and Conservative commentator Tim Montgomerie.

Compton, Calif. industrial area engulfed in flames, no deaths reported

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Firefighters battled a massive fire in an industrial area in Compton, Calif. Friday morning.

Biden Delivers Remarks At FEMA Covid Vaccination Facility | NBC News

NBC, 27 Feb 2021
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Shake Shack CEO Sees Silver Lining in Last Year for Restaurants

Bloomberg, 27 Feb 2021
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Myanmar's UN ambassador defies junta, calls for global action to overturn coup

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Kids in cages? Only if Trump does it, apparently

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NASA names HQ after agency's first Black female engineer

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Mary W Jackson was one of the Hidden Figures who helped NASA reach for the stars.

Shamima Begum cannot return to UK says Supreme Court

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How Black Americans viewed the Capitol riot and the response that followed

CBS, 27 Feb 2021
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Hundreds of calves stranded at sea suspected for disease

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'This battle is not won yet', warns Jonathan Van-Tam after cases increase in parts of UK

Telegraph, 27 Feb 2021
Coronavirus cases are rising in parts of the UK showing that "this battle is not won," Deputy Chief Medical Officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam has said.

How The Global Computer Chip Shortage Happened

CNBC, 27 Feb 2021
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High on lockdown: Substance abuse during the pandemic | COVID-19 Special

DW, 27 Feb 2021
Actor Seth Rogen, is not alone. Celebrity or not – pandemic pot smokers are on the rise, according to a global survey of 55,000 respondents.