Bangladesh election: Voting disrupted by violence

Clashes between ruling party and opposition supporters have resulted in 17 deaths.

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London violence: How a bloody night became a deadly year

London has endured a year which has seen its homicide total reach its highest level since 2008.

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In search of Leonard, my martyred ancestor

Eli Melki looks for traces of a relative who was killed at 33 during a wave of attacks against eastern Turkey's Christians.

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Bangladesh clothing factories: Are they safe now?

Are garment factories in Bangladesh safe five years after the Rana Plaza disaster?

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The singer, the scientist, the comic book writer... notable deaths of 2018

The scientist, the singer, the comic book writer... notable deaths of 2018

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Why legalising gay sex in India is not a Western idea

India's decision to decriminalise gay sex has taken the country back to its roots, some historians say.

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Should US Rethink Decision to Leave Syria? The Kurds Say 'Yes' – Here's Why

President Trump's decision to remove our troops from Syria has been criticized by many of his political allies in the US. However, one of our closest friends in the region is also hoping America won't pull its support.

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The Birth of Jesus in the New Testament: One Event – Four Narratives

It might come as a big surprise to learn that many of the elements people often treasure as part of the nativity story come from Christmas carols and that the true source for this event, the Gospels in the New Testament, deal with the story of the birth of Jesus in four very different, but yet not contradictory, ways.

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The Coming 'Turkish Jihadist Invasion' Against Christians: A Christmas Plea from Syrians to US Christians

In an open letter to Christians in the United States, the head of the Syriac Union Party pleaded that his people not be abandoned to Turkish forces if US troops pull out of Syria, a move announced recently by President Trump.

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Samsung Galaxy S9, Galaxy S9+ Facing Battery Drain Issue After Android Pie Update, Some Users Report

Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ owners are reportedly facing battery drain issues after the recently released Android Pie update.

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iPhone Battery Replacement Programme Ends Today, Last Chance to Get Your Out-of-Warranty iPhone Battery Replaced

Apple kicked off the battery replacement programme for out-of-warranty iPhone batteries in December last year.

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How Self-Sabotaging Are You?

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A California Women's March Was Cancelled Over Concerns That It Was "Overwhelmingly White"

Explaining the decision, organizers said they had been "lacking representation from several perspectives in our community."

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Year-End Storm in the Philippines Kills More Than 60

By JASON GUTIERREZ from NYT World https://nyti.ms/2R55gWI

Philippine President Says He Sexually Abused Housemaid as a Teenager

By JASON GUTIERREZ from NYT World https://nyti.ms/2AqsfRv

C.I.A.’s Afghan Forces Leave a Trail of Abuse and Anger

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In Orange County, a Republican Fortress Turns Democratic

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Consejos para vivir mejor en 2019

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‘The Train Was So Packed That It Was Difficult For Me to Do What I Always Did’

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2 of New York’s Most Influential Offices Are About to be Held by One Person

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What’s on TV Monday: New Year’s Eve Celebrations and Taylor Swift

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Armed Man in Tactical Clothing Headed to a Texas Church to ‘Fulfill a Prophecy,’ Police Say

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Trump Digs In, Darkening Hopes for a Deal to End the Shutdown

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Obamacare, Ruled Invalid by Federal Judge, Will Remain in Effect During Appeal

By SARAH MERVOSH from NYT U.S. https://nyti.ms/2GQ7rIL

Lindsey Graham Suggests Syrian Troop Drawdown Will Take Longer Than 30 Days

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Quotation of the Day: C.I.A.-Led Afghan Forces Leave Grim Trail of Abuse

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Ravens and Eagles Claw Their Way to the N.F.L. Playoffs

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Cowboys Send Giants to Another Late Loss

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Huawei Y7 Pro (2019) is official with Snapdragon 450

Huawei is going strong in the quest for becoming the second biggest smartphone maker in the world. Just days after the launch of Huawei P Smart (2019) on the European market, its more affordable sibling called Huawei Y7 Pro (2019) made an appearance in Vietnam. Looking at the Y7 Pro (2019) you might think it is visually the same as the P Smart (2019). After a detailed inspection of specs, we notice plenty of differences. The chipset is Qualcomm Snapdragon 450, while the screen is 6.26" LCD panel with HD+ resolution, waterdrop notch and a 19:9 ratio. The phone has only 3 GB RAM and...

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These were our most popular videos of 2018

In the last days of 2018 we take a look back and see what we have accomplished in the past 12 months. A lot of thought and hard work went into our YouTube channel, so we decided to share the most popular videos of the year. Samsung introduced the Galaxy A8 (2018) early in the year and it has been watched and liked plenty of times. No wonder it gathered over a million views with its tall Infinity Display and properly-placed fingerprint scanner. The Galaxy S9+ flagship is a massive improvement over the Galaxy S8+ with its dual camera - one shooter with variable aperture and another...

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Counterclockwise: the touchscreen evolution

The human-computer interface has been a problem since the dawn of computers. As far as smartphones are concerned, the clear winner is the touchscreen. But how did we get here? The proto-touchscreen was the light pen, which was first developed in the 50s and 60s and was available to consumers as an accessory for 8-bit computers in the 80s. The light pen is a simple but clever solution that works only with CRT monitors - it senses the electron beam as it scans across the phosphor drawing the image line by line, pixel by pixel. When the beam is sensed by the pen, the computer just makes a...

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Camera test: The phone with the best Portrait mode

We've lined up the industry's cameraphone heavyweights - iPhone XS Max, Galaxy Note9, Huawei Mate 20 Pro, LG V40 ThinQ, OnePlus 6T, Galaxy S9, Google Pixel 3 to see how good phones have become in capturing portrait photos with defocused backgrounds. We'll also be taking some shots with a full-frame DSLR - the Nikon D750 - just to put things into perspective.

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Top 10 fan favorite phones of 2018

The year is almost over and it's time to reset the counter. But before we do that, let's take a look at which Android and iOS devices won the hearts of our readers. Note that we are not talking sheer popularity here, but number of likes - that is we only count The Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro leads the pack and we can see why. It was the best mid-ranger for a large chunk of the year. It checks a lot of boxes while keeping the price reasonable and that helped it win more love than any other phone introduced in 2018. The next one is the OnPlus 6 - the first of the two most controversial...

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The punch hole screen camera is the way forward

My job at GSMArena is getting to the office early in the morning, usually before sunrise, to cover the latest news, leaks and rumors. I've been following design trends from their development stage all the way to the final products. One of the sadder solutions among smartphone manufacturers is the notch, popularized by Apple and the iPhone X back in 2017. I never got the hate it received as the cutout was just bound to happen. The notch eventually got smaller by the middle of 2018, when we saw the Oppo F9 with the new fashionable waterdrop notch, but by the end of 2018 we already have...

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Cyber-Attack Hits US Newspaper Distribution

The attack led to distribution delays in the Saturday edition of The Times, Tribune, Sun and other newspapers that share a production platform in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times reported.

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Google Facial Recognition Lawsuit Dismissed by US Judge

US District Judge Edmond Chang in Chicago granted a Google motion for summary judgment, saying the court lacked "subject matter jurisdiction because plaintiffs have not suffered concrete injuries."

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Zuckerberg Sees 'Progress' for Facebook After Tumultuous Year

Capping a tumultuous year marked by data protection scandals and government probes, Zuckerberg said he was "proud of the progress we've made" in addressing Facebook's problems.

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Nubia Red Magic Mars RNG Edition With Up to 10GB RAM Launched: Price, Specifications

Nubia Red Magic Mars RNG Edition price in China starts at CNY 3,299 (roughly Rs. 33,500) for the 8GB RAM/ 128GB storage configuration.

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WhatsApp Will Stop Working on Nokia S40 Phones Today

WhatsApp says that devices that run on Nokia S40 won't be able to use WhatsApp after December 31 i.e. today.

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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Game ‘Nohzdyve’ Is Available for Everyone to Play, but There’s a Catch

If you haven’t gotten enough of the new Black Mirror: Bandersnatch interactive film on Netflix, you can now also play one of the games that’s spoken about in the episode, Nohzdyve.

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iPhone XS Max Catches Fire in US Man's Pocket: Report

An iPhone XS Max smartphone reportedly caught fire in the pocket of man from Ohio, United States earlier this month.

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Huawei P Smart (2019) With Dual Rear Cameras, Dewdrop Display Launched: Price, Specifications

Huawei P Smart (2019) is seen sporting a waterdrop-shaped notch, a dual camera setup aligned vertically, a rear fingerprint scanner, and a 3,400mAh battery.

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Aquaman Crosses Suicide Squad as It Nears $750 Million at Global Box Office

Aquaman had a terrific final weekend of 2018 as it hit a worldwide total of $748.8 million, which took it past Justice League, Man of Steel, and Suicide Squad.

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Tesla Names Close Musk Friend Larry Ellison to Board

Tesla named Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison to its board to provide the independent oversight demanded by US regulators after Musk tweeted about taking the electric carmaker private.

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Nokia 9 PureView Press Render Leaked, Shows Penta-Lens Camera and In-Display Fingerprint Sensor

Nokia 9 PureView is speculated to launch sometime in the last week of January 2019.

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OneWeb Satellite Internet Service Says Has Not Offered Stake to Russia

OneWeb, which plans to create a worldwide Internet network using satellites, said on Friday that it had not offered the Russian government a stake in the project.

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Essential Phone Discontinued, Company Working on 'Next Mobile Product'

Essential Phone has gone out of stock and the company has said it won't replenish the stocks, thus, effectively discontinuing the phone.

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Dell Returns to Market With NYSE Listing, 6 Years After It Went Private

The computer maker is trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol 'DELL', after it bought back shares that tracked the financial performance of software maker VMware.

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Netflix Stops Offering iTunes Billing for New or Rejoining Subscribers

Netflix has stopped offering the iTunes billing as a payment method to its new or returning subscribers on iOS globally.

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iPhone XS Max Production Estimates Halved by Citi Amid Reports of Weak Demand

Citi said it expects the company to make 45 million iPhones for the quarter, down from 50 million it forecast earlier.

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Poco F2 With Snapdragon 845 SoC, Android 9.0 Pie Spotted on Geekbench

Poco F2 on Geekbench has received a single-core score of 2,321 and multi-core score of 7,564.

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UAE helicopter crash kills four crew on rescue mission near zipline

Four die in a helicopter crash near the world's longest zipline, in the UAE's northern-most emirate.

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France to help combat Channel smuggling

Six Iranian migrants are found on the Kent coast as the home secretary cuts short a holiday to deal with the issue.

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DoubleTree Portland hotel fires staff who evicted black guest

Police escorted Jermaine Massey out of the DoubleTree Portland after he called his mum in the lobby.

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What it’s like to be Black and Argentine

Afro-Argentines often feel like they’ve been written out of history and are mistaken for foreigners in their own country.

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Bangladesh election: Voting disrupted by violence

Clashes between ruling party and opposition supporters have resulted in 17 deaths.

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Spoken word poet Dylema: On a stroll through Africa in 2018

Dylema leads us through key events on the continent this year in a specially commissioned poem.

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Lederhosen love among Austria's millennials

Lederhosen and dirndl dresses are making a comeback in Austria.

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Female fightback... 2018 in hashtags

A look at the year's most influential hashtags used by women on social media.

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The 90-year-old back-flipping daredevil

This Canadian man is being called the world's most extreme grandpa.

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In search of Leonard, my martyred ancestor

Eli Melki looks for traces of a relative who was killed at 33 during a wave of attacks against eastern Turkey's Christians.

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2018 in news: The alternative end-of-the-year awards

From the ridiculous to the more ridiculous, here are the weird stories that caught our eye this year.

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Why legalising gay sex in India is not a Western idea

India's decision to decriminalise gay sex has taken the country back to its roots, some historians say.

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Remembering the entertainment and arts figures we lost in 2018

Remembering some of the figures from music, film, TV, radio and literature who died in 2018.

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Bangladesh clothing factories: Are they safe now?

Are garment factories in Bangladesh safe five years after the Rana Plaza disaster?

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Africa's year in pictures 2018

A selection of the best photos from across and about Africa this year.

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Cyber-attack disrupts distribution of multiple US newspapers

The malware, which affected papers owned by Tribune Publishing, is believed to be from outside the US.

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Top Cryptocurrencies Mostly in the Red, Bitcoin Falls Below $3,900 Again

Bitcoin under $3,900 again, and most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting discreet losses

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Hodler’s Digest, Dec. 24–30: Top Stories, Price Movements, Quotes and FUD of the Week

A South Korean court rules in favor of Bithumb, GMO Internet leaves the crypto mining production sector, and more in this week’s Hodler’s Digest

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Chinese Survey Finds Nearly 40 Percent of Respondents Would Invest in Crypto

A survey in China revealed that 40 percent of the respondents are willing to invest in cryptocurrency in the future

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White Hat Hackers Earned $878,000 from Crypto Bug Bounties in 2018, Data Shows

This year $878,000 have been reportedly awarded to hackers by blockchain companies on vulnerability disclosure platform HackerOne

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Top Crypto Performers Overview: Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, NEO, IOTA, Binance Coin, Stratis

With 2018 — which turned out to be a massive bear market for crypto — coming to an end, what were the best performing coins of this week?

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39 Things That’ll Help You Be A Better Adult In 2019

2019 — the year that your apartment will finally be clean, the bills will be paid on time, and you will (try to) eat pizza for dinner less often.

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A Woman Facing Deportation Says She Was Denied Justice Because She Speaks An Indigenous Language

"It's an extreme case and perfect example of an unjust system."

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38 Things To Buy In 2019 That’ll Save You Money In The Long Run

Some practical investments you’ll be thankful you bought a few months down the road.

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35 Things That’ll Help You Start 2019 On A High Note

🎶I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes... 2019 is going to be an awesome year🎶

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28 Cheap Things To Treat Yourself To In 2019

Unicorn slippers, a cozy cardigan, the world's cutest pet bed, and more under-$25 goodies you definitely deserve to have in your life this year.

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45 Things That Might Actually Help Reduce Stress In 2019

Because 2018 has been A Year.

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47 Things That'll Help Give You The Home Of Your Dreams In 2019

Stop dreaming about those flipped houses on HGTV and transform your own home! (You didn't like that primary yellow accent wall anyway.....)

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48 Of The Best Things Under $10 You Can Get On Amazon

Great reviews, great prices, and lightning-fast shipping? Jesus take the wheel.

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30 Products With Disgustingly Satisfying Review Photos You'll Wanna Try In 2019

It's gross how well these products work.

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32 Things You're Totally Going To Want When You're In A Rush

Just a bunch of handy products that'll save you time and stress!

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24 Little Things Under $20 To Upgrade Your Wardrobe

🎵Let me upgrade you. 🎵

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Padma Lakshmi Revealed What She Wants To Change About "Top Chef"

The Top Chef host opened up about the show, her fight to raise awareness about endometriosis, and her own #MeToo story in a new episode of Profile.

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15 Pairs Of Foods You've Been Confusing For Each Other For Years

Yes, yams and sweet potatoes are two different things.

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29 Of The Absolute Funniest Tweets From This Month (That Got Over 50K RTs)

"Is your dad really your dad if he doesn’t say, 'Who?' after talking about any of your friends even if he’s known them for literally 7 years??"

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Immigration Officials Say They Had No Previous Encounters With The Gang Member Arrested For Allegedly Killing A California Police Officer

Gustavo Perez Arriaga was arrested in Bakersfield, California, on Friday morning for allegedly killing police officer Ronil Singh during a traffic stop.

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Alabama and Clemson Are Putting a Trademark on the Title Game

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No Corrections: December 31, 2018

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A Closed Brooklyn Bridge and 40,000 Pounds of Deli Meat: New York Is That Crowded

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Shutdown, McKinsey, Gaza: Your Monday Briefing

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‘Outlander’ Season 4, Episode 9: Fraser Hospitality

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