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° Mads Mikkelsen is to replace Johnny Depp as rogue wizard Gellert Grindelwald in the Fantastic Beasts series, Warner Bros have announced.Depp left the franchise earlier this month after losing a libel case over a 2018 newspaper article which called him a wife beater. ° Mikkelsen, a Danish actor, has previously starred in films including Casino Royale and Doctor Strange. ° The third instalment of the series is due to be released in summer. #JohnnyDepp #FantasticBeasts #movie #JohnnyDepp #FantasticBeasts #movie https://www.instagram.com/p/CIEGg6qMB_q/?igshid=1c1cxw940veu6

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° France is leading a push for European Union sanctions on Turkey next month to follow through on a threat made by the bloc in October, but has yet to win support from EU governments beyond Greece and Cyprus, officials and diplomats said. ° Paris says Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has not heeded EU leaders warnings on Oct. 1 to back down in a dispute over gas exploration in the Mediterranean or face consequences. ° The European Parliament on Thursday is expected to call for sanctions, decrying Erdogans visit earlier this month to the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north of the island of Cyprus. #eu #Europe #Turkey https://www.instagram.com/p/CID3R0nMVQl/?igshid=a5uaxx1xwit2

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° The U.S. Navy has refuted claims made by Russia that an American warship was driven out of the Sea of Japan, and maintained that the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG-56) had performed a freedom of navigation operation in the waters near Peter the Great Bay, a gulf off the Pacific coast of Russia. ° The U.S. 7th Fleet responded to the claims made earlier in the week by Russian state media regarding the incident. #Russia #Japan #US https://www.instagram.com/p/CIDmfDgMpKn/?igshid=1f8h48gv5f3rl

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° Images of a herd of desperate wild elephants rummaging through mounds of rubbish in a landfill site have drawn attention to the plight of the animals in Sri Lankas Ampara, where the country is planning to build a moat to reduce human-animal conflict. ° The Ampara landfill is one of three such rubbish dumps located next to wildlife protection zones in the country, and was created around a decade ago in the middle of an elephant corridor that is home to some 200 to 300 of the animals. ° The elephants that pass through in search of food often end up consuming plastic and other hazardous waste, which slowly kills them, officials say. In 2019, a record 361 elephants died across Sri Lanka mainly because of humans, local environmental groups reported Read more #Elephant #animals #Asia #animal #animalabuse #shrilanka #shrilankaanimal https://www.instagram.com/p/CIDYll_MtSp/?igshid=1uy8wryy5uq5

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° For decades, researchers have thought that hallucinogenic substances likely played a role in rock art, inspiring many of the vivid drawings that adorn cliffs and caves across all six habitable continents. ° But according to a new study, it could go the other way around: Paintings in caves could have acted as visual aids for drug-induced hallucinations. ° The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week, describes a cave in Southern California, between Santa Barbara and Bakersfield. Its within the historic territory of the indigenous Chumash people and is known as the Pinwheel Cave because of the pinwheel-shaped painting on its ceiling. The painting resembles the datura plant, which delivers intense psychoactive effects when ingested https://www.instagram.com/p/CIDN8P3MS5S/?igshid=1a9lslulrmn7q

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° Thousands of families who live near a smouldering waste landfill in a northern corner of Indias capital have boarded up their doors and windows because they say the air outside is so toxic that they would be coughing all day. ° New Delhi has the worst air of any capital on the planet, according to IQ AirVisual, a Swiss-based group that gathers air quality data globally. ° Jahangirpuri is one of its most polluted parts, choking daily in the murky mix of smoke from burning rubbish, exhaust fumes from trucks coming in and out a large depot and dust rising from unmetalled roads. #India #NewDelhi #climate #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #collapse #ClimateChange #climatestrike https://www.instagram.com/p/CIDCrhgs7rF/?igshid=1q61gkz56ji72

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TRUMP IS BrINGING BACK FIRING SQUADS https://www.instagram.com/p/CIDBx7LMQm9/?igshid=1lnur1j7hejbq

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° What makes this news worse is that the heart is adversely affected in 20% of people who have even extremely mild symptoms. That data, published in JAMA last July, woke up the cardiac world, but rarely made it to other physicians. ° The other four common coronaviruses, including SARS and MERS, never had the extent of heart involvement were seeing in COVID-19, said Eric Topol, M.D., founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute. In those conditions, heart involvement was minimal, and different from the serious manifestations were seeing in COVID-19. The only debate is how common this is and how it contributes to long-term cardiovascular morbidity of mortality #COVID19 #Covid_19 #CoronavirusPandemic #Corona #World https://www.instagram.com/p/CIB7nq0MeTP/?igshid=1dp28mkzmaqo2

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° Hundreds of people in low lying areas in Indias southern city of Chennai were evacuated and more than 150 relief centres were on standby ahead of a very severe cyclonic storm, government officials said on Wednesday. ° The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said Nivar was likely to cross between midnight of 25th and early hours of 26th November and was likely to bring very heavy rainfall. ° Areas in and around Chennai witnessed intense spells of rain, accompanied by strong winds on Wednesday. Read more https://worldsecondsource.com/news/4be2338b #India #Asia #Cyclone https://www.instagram.com/p/CIBnjjXMYNE/?igshid=1wapbkrv99rkd

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° Argentinian football legend Diego Maradona is said to have died after suffering a heart attack, the Daily Star reports. ° The news comes just two weeks after he was seen leaving hospital and taken to a recovery clinic to be treated for alcohol dependency ° Maradona, who led his country to World Cup triumph in 1986, had a successful operation for a blood clot on the brain earlier in November. #maradona #diegomaradona #argentina #football #Worldup https://www.instagram.com/p/CIBVumEMcOD/?igshid=dzxnawfa6l6r

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Scientists may have uncovered hints of a perculiar way that ancient light moves across the universe, which, which could offer clues about the nature of dark energy and dark matter Read more https://worldsecondsource.com/news/2e14ce7f #Space #UNIVERSE #Science https://www.instagram.com/p/CIBMPcms6S9/?igshid=1r0bgulo3pdle

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SpaceX successfully launched one of its Falcon 9 rockets on Tuesday night for a record-breaking seventh time, delivering 60 satellites to orbit for its Starlink satellite-internet service. Read more https://worldsecondsource.com/news/2ce3a187 #SpaceX #ElonMusk #Falcon9 #Starlink #Space https://www.instagram.com/p/CIA9Sn1sHmh/?igshid=143f5yythfotr

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This is not Cuba. This is not Venezuela, nor Rwanda. It is Misiones, Argentina, where, due to hunger, people unearthed and took chickens that had previously been buried for being in poor condition. https://twitter.com/ReporteYa/status/1331202759845175296 #wtf #argentina #argentina🇦🇷 #poor #whtaisgoingon #poorcondition https://www.instagram.com/p/CIA2sQaqdNi/?igshid=1e8bjrorxdj84

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China said it is compiling a list of supporters of formal independence for Taiwan and vowed to punish them, escalating its global campaign against efforts seen as nudging the island democracy out of Beijings orbit. Read more https://worldsecondsource.com/news/1c332b79 #China #separatisme #Beijing https://www.instagram.com/p/CIArdSHMF_w/?igshid=pw9wzhyevpqr

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Nominees for Best Rock Performance include Fiona Apple for Shameika, Haim for The Steps, Phoebe Bridgers for Kyoto, Stay High by Brittany Howard, Daylight by Grace Potter, and Not by Big Thief a four-person band fronted by Adrienne Lenker Read more https://worldsecondsource.com/news/ce4f09 #rock #GRAMMYs https://www.instagram.com/p/CIAbEZCMw52/?igshid=ia1nwg9s4125

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Speaking on Israels Army Radio on Monday, Education Minister Yoav Gallant called the covert meeting, which reportedly took place in the Saudi city of Neom, an incredible achievement and congratulated Netanyahu. Lets say that the very existence of the meeting, the fact that it was put out publicly, even if its half official at the moment, is a matter of great importance from any aspect and matter, a member of Netanyahus Likud party, when asked about the Sunday meeting. Read more #SaudiArabia #Israel #middleEast https://www.instagram.com/p/CH-9vg-Ml5G/?igshid=13yba0e672vhw

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Speaking on Israels Army Radio on Monday, Education Minister Yoav Gallant called the covert meeting, which reportedly took place in the Saudi city of Neom, an incredible achievement and congratulated Netanyahu. Lets say that the very existence of the meeting, the fact that it was put out publicly, even if its half official at the moment, is a matter of great importance from any aspect and matter, a member of Netanyahus Likud party, when asked about the Sunday meeting. Read more #SaudiArabia #Israel #middleEast https://www.instagram.com/p/CH-9vg-Ml5G/?igshid=13yba0e672vhw