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- 15 December 2017: England: Baby born with heart outside body operated on; surviving, three weeks after birth
- 13 December 2017: Apple, Inc. confirms acqusition of Shazam
- 12 December 2017: UEFA Champions League 2017–2018: Draw for Last 16 held at Nyon
- 11 December 2017: Football: Peter Stöger replaces Peter Bosz as Borussia Dortmund’s boss
- 8 December 2017: Wikinews attends ComicCon in Bangalore, India
- 6 December 2017: Yemen: Former president Ali Abdullah Saleh killed in Sana’a by Houthi militants
- 30 November 2017: Football: Italian club AC Milan sacks Vincenzo Montella as manager
- 29 November 2017: Israeli Health minister Ya’akov Litzman resigns in protest after Jews made to work on Jewish rest day
- 28 November 2017: Football: Messi signs contract extension with FC Barcelona
- 27 November 2017: Time magazine refutes US President Donald Trump’s Twitter claim he was nominated Time ‘Person of the Year’
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- Israeli Health minister Ya’akov Litzman resigns in protest after Jews made to work on Jewish rest day
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- Charles Manson, serving nine life sentences for 1969 murders, dies aged 83
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- Apple, Inc. confirms acqusition of Shazam
- Wikinews attends ComicCon in Bangalore, India
- Kazakhstan: President Nazarbayev signs decree to change Kazakh characters from Cyrillic to Latin-based script
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- DR Congo: Train crash kills more than 30 in Lualaba province
- Device explodes on London Tube train at Parsons Green
- Frankfurt defuses World War II-era bomb, evacuates 60,000
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- Uber London to lose operator licence after September
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- Arrangement of light receptors in the eye may cause dyslexia, scientists say
- Detroit teachers stage sickout to protest working conditions as Obama visits
- Time magazine names Ahmed Mohamed to ‘Most Influential Teens of 2015’
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- U.S. government report says climate change is human-made
- Researchers find preserving spotted owl habitat may not require a tradeoff with wildfire risk after all
- India Supreme Court overrules High Court: rivers Yamuna, Ganga no longer living entities
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- England: Baby born with heart outside body operated on; surviving, three weeks after birth
- Arrangement of light receptors in the eye may cause dyslexia, scientists say
- Publisher withdraws book about Nelson Mandela’s final days after family complaint
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- Charles Manson, serving nine life sentences for 1969 murders, dies aged 83
- US rock artist Tom Petty dies at 66
- British actor Tony Booth dies at 85
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- Yemen: Former president Ali Abdullah Saleh killed in Sana’a by Houthi militants
- Israeli Health minister Ya’akov Litzman resigns in protest after Jews made to work on Jewish rest day
- Time magazine refutes US President Donald Trump’s Twitter claim he was nominated Time ‘Person of the Year’
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- United States Federal Communications Commission overturns Net Neutrality rules, deregulating internet service providers
- Researchers report rapid formation of new bird species in Galápagos islands
- Singapore announces driverless buses on public roads from 2022
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- UEFA Champions League 2017–2018: Draw for Last 16 held at Nyon
- Football: Peter Stöger replaces Peter Bosz as Borussia Dortmund’s boss
- Football: Italian club AC Milan sacks Vincenzo Montella as manager
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- India Supreme Court overrules High Court: rivers Yamuna, Ganga no longer living entities
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- Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe resigns presidency after military coup, threat of impeachment
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- Man with knife stabs people in Finnish city of Turku
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- GM posts first annual loss since 1992
- Turkey, US embassies resume issuing non-immigrant visas
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- Australia bars North Korea’s U-19 football team from entering country citing ‘illegal nuclear programmes’
- New South Wales police extradict ‘self-healer’ Hongchi Xiao from London over death of six-year-old boy at conference
- Australia: Victorian government to trial driverless vehicles on public roads
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- Fifteen states sue United States President Donald Trump for cancelling program for undocumented immigrant minors
- Gunmen murder Honduran indigenous leader Berta Cáceres
- Guatemalan Supreme Court approves impeachment of President Molina
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- Apple, Inc. confirms acqusition of Shazam
- Football: Italian club AC Milan sacks Vincenzo Montella as manager
- Italian court sentences Brazilian footballer Robinho to nine years for 2013 sexual assault
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- Yemen: Former president Ali Abdullah Saleh killed in Sana’a by Houthi militants
- Israeli Health minister Ya’akov Litzman resigns in protest after Jews made to work on Jewish rest day
- Qatar appoints four women to its law-drafting Shura Council
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- Apple, Inc. confirms acqusition of Shazam
- Charles Manson, serving nine life sentences for 1969 murders, dies aged 83
- Gunman kills at least four in shooting in Rancho Tehama, California
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- Researchers report rapid formation of new bird species in Galápagos islands
- Hurricane Nate weakens as it reaches United States
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