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Samoa measles epidemic kills 20

Children under five account for all but one of the deaths as suspected cases double to 1,644

Deaths related to measles have risen to 20 in the past week on the Pacific island of Samoa, the government has said, eight days after declaring a state of emergency over the outbreak.

The island state of 200,000, located south of the equator and halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand, declared a measles epidemic late in October after the first deaths.

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Michael Bloomberg vows to refuse donations as presidential bid looms

I think the DNC needs to stop “selling” the Democratic candidacy to the highest bidder!

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  • Adviser: billionaire eyeing White House ‘cannot be bought’
  • Ex-New York mayor cannot debate if he does not take cash

Michael Bloomberg will not accept political donations if he runs for president and will not take a salary if he wins, according to senior aides discussing the New York billionaire’s plans as he marches toward a formal 2020 announcement.

Related: ‘No one out there’: could Democrats’ lack of star power see Trump re-elected by default?

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Sharon is one of a growing number of conservative parents revolting against mainstream school

next they will also embrace anti-vaxers. More concerned about fake freedom than killing learning and children.

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One Nation supporters are notably less satisfied with teachers and the education system than any other voters, Australia Talks data shows, with conservatives warning a “tide is turning” and parents will look for alternatives.

Indian Muslim Sanskrit professor in hiding after rightwing protests

faux-religion politics, real fascism in India.

Feroz Khan flees after Hindu nationalist group says: ‘A Muslim cannot teach us our religion’

A Muslim scholar of Sanskrit has gone into hiding after protests from some rightwing Hindu students claiming that, as a Muslim, he cannot teach Sanskrit, the ancient classical language of Hinduism.

Feroz Khan, 29, was the unanimous choice of a selection committee at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi for the post of assistant professor of Sanskrit literature. The committee members were impressed with his erudition, which stems from a childhood passion for the language that continued into further education.

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Trump hosted Mark Zuckerberg for private White House dinner – report

Meeting took place as Facebook chief was being grilled by the House, NBC News reports, with Peter Thiel also in attendance

Donald Trump hosted the Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg for a private dinner at the White House in October.

NBC News revealed that the meeting, which had not previously been disclosed, took place when Zuckerberg was in Washington being grilled by Congress over topics including Facebook’s limited steps to ban to misinformation in political advertising.

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Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour manifesto harks back to 1940s | Larry Elliott

Party leader has taken postwar socialist ideas and added a modern populist twist

Free broadband. Free adult learning. Free dental care. The biggest council house building programme in decade. Abolish student tuition fees and bring back maintenance grants. All paid for by squeezing the rich, raising corporation tax, making tech giants pay the exchequer a fair whack, and by borrowing more. As Jeremy Corbyn was proud to state, this was the most radical Labour party manifesto in years.

One of the questions asked at the document’s launch was if Labour wanted to turn the clock back to the 1970s. Actually, the inspiration was more Clement Attlee in 1945 than Tony Benn 30 years later. Labour’s starting point, as at the end of the second world war, was that something has gone fundamentally wrong with free-market capitalism and only a socialist transformation can put things right.

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Trump considering withdrawing up to 4,000 U.S. troops from South Korea: report

China will like that and so will his Bromancer in North Korea – A traitor to all those who died in Korean War! The United States is considering withdrawing an armed forces brigade from South Korea if Seoul does not agree to a U.S. demand to contribute more to the cost of stationing troops in the country, a South Korean newspaper reported on Thursday.

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Trump shift on Israeli settlements fulfills wish list of evangelical base

For all the wrong reasons and throws the region into hell again A U.S. decision effectively backing Israel’s building of settlements in the occupied West Bank, long a cherished item on conservative Christians’ wish list, is expected to strengthen evangelicals’ support for Donald Trump as he seeks re-election in 2020, according to a leader of the president’s evangelical advisory group.

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Sri Lanka presidential election: Rajapaksa victorious as opponent concedes

Fascist in power in Sri Lanka and India…

Former defence minister Gotabaya Rajapaksa claims victory in tightly fought contest

Sri Lanka’s former wartime defence minister Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who is part of the country’s most powerful political dynasty, has been elected president, raising fears about the future of human rights and religious harmony in the region.

On Sunday, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the candidate for the SLPP, the Sinhalese-Buddhist nationalist party, claimed an easy victory in the presidential election held Saturday, which had been fought against the backdrop of some of the worst political instability and violence the country has seen since the end of the civil war a decade ago.

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