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Amazon warehouse workers await result of union vote in Staten Island
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A federal labor board will on Monday count ballots cast by warehouse workers in a second Amazon union election on Staten Island in New York City. The National Labor Relations Board is overseeing the election and expec...
‘We have to go’: nursing home residents await evacuation in Donbas
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In the sleepy village of Chasiv Yar in Ukrainian controlled-Donbas, about 30 elderly people are waiting to be evacuated to western Ukraine. Almost all of them have been ejected from their homes because of the war in t...
In it to win it: Southgate dreams big as England await World Cup draw
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Just off the Corniche, the waterfront drag that runs along Doha’s bay to the city, stands the countdown clock, a digital hour glass that lets everybody know – in days, hours, minutes and seconds – how long there is to...
‘Fortress Odesa’: city falls silent as fearful residents await Russian advance
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The Ukrainian port of Odesa has fallen silent, revellers in its city centre replaced by blockades and tank traps, its famous Potemkin steps empty and statues protected by sandbags, waiting to see if the bombs that hav...
‘This is not justice’: Chinese activists held for two years await trial
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As millions of Chinese families gather this week to celebrate the arrival of the year of the tiger, Luo Shengchun is awaiting news of the fate of her husband, Ding Jiaxi, a human rights lawyer. “It’s the third year th...
Improving English clubs await moment of truth in Champions Cup
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There are two schools of thought out there – and probably always will be. The first is that the Gallagher Premiership, English rugby’s flagship competition, is the toughest league in the world. The second, most often ...
Tense scenes outside court as protesters await verdict of Kyle Rittenhouse – video
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As the jury in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial deliberated, dozens of protesters – some for Rittenhouse, some against – stood outside the Kenosha county courthouse in Wisconsin. Some talked quietly with those on the other ...
Australia Covid live news update: NSW confirms 11 deaths, 1,043 cases; Victoria records one death, 733 cases; police await fifth day of Melbourne protests
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International students could return to NSW by 2022; police standing by for more protests in Melbourne; more than half of over-16s now vaccinated; Victorians urged not to gather illegally on grand final day as state re...
Super League play-offs: Catalans and St Helens a cut above but pitfalls await
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After an unpredictable Super League season littered with Covid-related problems and a litany of on- and off-field drama, there is perhaps a certain irony that the route to next month’s Grand Final at Old Trafford appe...
Afghan musicians silently await their fate as Taliban’s ban looms
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The shutters have been down all along Kharabat Street, the storied heart of Afghan musical life, since the Taliban swept into Kabul in mid-August. Musicians have taken their instruments home, or crammed them into stor...
Tim Dowling: the cat has gone to the vet. I sit and await good news
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I am sitting in the kitchen, looking up tomato blight on my phone. My tomatoes are displaying all the symptoms. I have about half of them. “Wilted stems,” I say. “Tick.” My wife comes in from the garden. “There’s som...
Paris attack survivors await start of France’s biggest ever criminal trial
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Deep inside Paris’s historic law courts on the bank of the River Seine, builders were putting the finishing touches to an extraordinary architectural structure described as a cross between a high-security bunker and m...
A-level results day 2021 live: hundreds of thousands await teacher-assessed grades
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Results based on new system after grading fiasco in 2020 saw thousands of students have their results downgraded
Wounded animal India await England side hurt by loss of Stokes and Woakes
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Tom Harrison admitted recently he had given up trying to guess the next bombshell to hit English cricket and it is fair to say the withdrawal of Ben Stokes from the marquee series of the summer – five Tests against th...
‘It’s going to come as a big shock’: UFO experts await Pentagon report
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Nearly 75 years after Roswell, the possibility that we are not alone in the universe is once again the talk of mainstream politics. The impending release of a Pentagon report on the activities of the Advanced Aerospac...
Nerves in the Commons as MPs await Boundary Commission report
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Some time before midday on Monday, quite a lot of English MPs will start getting distinctly twitchy. It is then that they will first see the results of a major redrawing of parliamentary boundaries, with a number of s...