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Manchester City returned to winning ways with a 5-2 victory over Southampton to move 14 points clear at the top of the Premier League.

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A deeply divided Congress passed a landmark $1.9tn coronavirus relief bill on Wednesday, delivering the first major legislative victory of Joe Biden’s presidency and a sweeping promise to raise millions of Americans out of poverty.

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Paris Saint-Germain held off Barcelona in a thrilling match in the French capital to progress to the quarterfinals of the Champions League. The tie finished 5-2 on aggregate.

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Archaeologists working at an ancient complex in southeastern Spain say women probably held political power in the Bronze Age society that ruled the area 4,000 years. Researchers said women of the ruling class may have been important in governing the El Argar society, the Research Group in Mediterranean Social Archaeoecology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona said in a news release published Thursday.

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Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette tape, has died aged 94. An estimated 100 billion cassette tapes have been sold around the world since they were introduced in the 1960s.

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A German court has halted proceedings against a 96-year-old former Nazi camp guard deemed unfit to stand trial, but ruled that he must pay his own legal fees. The man named as Harry S is accused of aiding and abetting murder in several hundred cases while working as a guard at the Stutthof camp near what was Danzig, now Gdańsk, between June 1944 and May 1945.

Source: theguardian.com

The nearly 2,000-year-old burial ground at the Berenice port in southern Egypt, held the complete remains of more than 500 cats, nearly three dozen dogs, 15 monkeys, a fox and a falcon.

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet with top Chinese officials on March 18 during a stop in Alaska: the first high-level in-person contact between the two countries under the Biden administration. The meeting will follow Blinken’s first overseas trip to U.S. allies Japan and South Korea.

Source: reuters.com

The US is building a new $100bn nuclear missile based on a set of flawed and outdated assumptions, a new report by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) will say. Scientists say the GBSD project is outdated and the result of lobbying rather than a clear sense of what it will achieve.

Source: theguardian.com

Health systems in most of Brazil's largest cities are close to collapse due to Covid-19 cases, a report by the country's Fiocruz institute warns. The Rio de Janeiro-based institute said more than 80% of intensive care unit (ICU) beds are occupied in the capitals of 25 of Brazil's 27 states. On Tuesday the country recorded 1,972 Covid deaths, a new daily record.

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Prayuth Chan-ocha surprised journalists at a recent press conference when he chose an unusual way to deflect their questions. When asked about a cabinet reshuffle, he picked up a bottle of sanitiser and began spraying reporters. The retired army general has been in power since a 2014 military coup, and has a history of acting controversially at press events.

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The Manchester United and England forward has won widespread praise for his ceaseless efforts to address the child food poverty crisis in the UK. His campaigning has helped thousands of children all over the country and forced Boris Johnson and the government into a U-turn over their school meal voucher policy.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. warned on "Hannity" Tuesday that President Biden's immigration policies could have major national security implications, suggesting that a porous southern border might serve as a "great way for terrorists to come into our country."

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An outbreak of a deadly pig disease may have set the stage for Covid-19 to take hold in humans, a new analysis has suggested. African swine fever (ASF), which first swept through China in 2018, disrupted pork supplies increasing the potential for human-virus contact as people sought out alternative meats.

Source: theguardian.com

Manchester United midfielder wants assurances over the club’s plans in the transfer market before he is willing to consider signing a new deal at the club. The 26-year-old is on £100,000 a week and could double his money with a new five-year contract on offer. However before he commits, he wants to know that the club will reinforce, especially given Edinson Cavani reportedly intends to leave.

Source: thesun

South Korea has agreed to a 13.9% increase in its contribution to the cost of hosting some 28,500 U.S. troops for 2021, the biggest annual rise in nearly two decades. The increase will take South Korea’s contribution this year to 1.18 trillion won ($1.03 billion).

Source: reuters.com

surfaced of them wearing and holding racist symbols at a campus event in 2014, according to a statement from the school. In two photos verified by university spokesperson Lance Crawford, one professor is pictured wearing a Confederate soldier's uniform, while two other professors posed with a whip and noose.

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Sakae Kato, 57, has dedicated his life to rescuing cats and other animals that were left behind in the nuclear ghost city. He has spent the last 10 years in the nuclear zone to take care of these animals.

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