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The European Union has decisively voted to eliminate all variations in smartphone charger cables to reduce waste and improve the customer experience. The new regulation will go into effect in July and Apple will now have to revise its plans to remove the charging port from the iPhone entirely.

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US nationals who have traveled to China within the last 14 days have been barred from entering the US due to the spread of the coronavirus. The US government has declared a public health emergency in order to enforce these travel restrictions. They also said that it is likely that there will be a few new cases of the virus in the US.

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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft has said that if the Palestinians were to raise their opposition to the US peace plan at the UN, they would just be repeating the failed pattern of the last several decades. She made this statement despite the widespread opposition the plan faced from nearly every Palestinian official.

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Bushfires have restarted in Australia after a period of high winds and temperatures. The fires expanded to 30,000 hectares on Saturday as the region declared a state of emergency. The capital city Canberra surrounded in smoke due to the nearby blaze and many locals were told that it was now too late to evacuate.

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The US government has announced that Trump's travel ban, that is currently blocking prospective immigrants from a number of primarily Muslim countries, has been expanded to include six more countries. Four of these countries are African nations and three have Muslim majority populations. The government claimed the countries did not meet America's security or information sharing standards.

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Manchester United has announced that it will be adding former Watford striker Odion Ighalo to its lineup until the end of the season. The team has signed the player on loan and some suspect is being brought in to replace Marcus Rashford who is temporarily out of commission due to a serious injury.

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EA has announced that BB-8 and his evil droid counterpart will both be playable characters in a new Star Wars Battlefront 2 update. Both droids will move incredibly fast in the game and will have very different roles within their respective teams. The update will launch on February 3rd after having been delayed a few days.

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The Brexit saga, which saw the resignations of two prime ministers and furious protests both supporting and opposing the movement, has finally culminated in the UK's official exit from the EU, to be enacted at 23:00 GMT on Friday. The UK's trade relationship with the EU will remain the same until a new agreement is negotiated within this year, failing which the WTO's severely restrictive rules will apply.

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The deaths and numbers of people infected by Coronavirus continue to rise sharply, as the Chinese government released its latest report estimating 213 people killed and 9,692 people infected by the Wuhan virus. The German foreign minister has announced the evacuation of 100 German citizens from Wuhan, thought to be the center point of the virus, with most country's governments advising citizens to refrain from traveling to China.

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Austrian world number two Novak Djokovic, 32-year-old defending champion at the Australian Open, defeated Swiss legend Roger Federer 7-6 6-4 6-3 in the tournament's semi-final. Federer, now 38 years old and suffering from a groin injury sustained in his last match, started off strong with a commanding 4-1 and 40-0 lead, with Djokovic making an explosive comeback to achieve victory against the all-time record holder for most Grand Slam wins.

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US president Donald Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate may end in his acquittal as soon as Friday, after Democrats' failed to convince the required number of Republicans of the need for new witnesses. Democrats needed four Republicans to vote in favor of further witnesses, but Lamar Alexander of Tennessee has openly opposed the idea with Utah's Mitt Romney and Maine's Susan Collins remaining the only Republican supporters.

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In the last quarter of 2019, popular sports games developer and also the developer for the Star Wars games, EA announced 993 million USD in revenue from microtransactions in the Live Services department, with most of the revenue coming from its Ultimate Team feature in games such as FIFA, Madden and NHL. EA's Star Wars: Battlefront II also exceeded expectations due to renewed interest after the latest Star Wars movie.

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An artificial intelligence created by a collaboration between British firm Exscientia and Japanese pharmaceutical company Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma has developed a drug that is going to enter the first phase of human trials in Japan. The drug is a treatment for those suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and while human-engineered drugs take up to five years to develop, the AI took only a year to engineer the medicine.

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has confirmed that the 2020 Oscars, which like the previous year's awards will feature no host, will feature a performance by 18-year-old pop star Billie Eilish, who swept the Grammy Awards a few days ago and became the youngest solo artist to receive an award for Album of the Year.

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In its fourth quarterly report for 2019, Amazon revealed that a landmark 150 million users have now subscribed to its Prime service, with more people joining Prime in 2019's last quarter than in any other time in the company's history, which has led to a successful holiday shopping season for the retail giant, which remains one of the most valuable companies in the world.

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A report by the Associated Press has revealed that the United Nations' offices in Geneva and Vienna were targeted in a cyber attack in an espionage operation, but top officials attempted to bury information related to the leak. Staff members were not made aware of the attack, which is thought to have been backed by certain state actors.

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Billionaire inventor Elon Musk's Boring Company started work in November 2019 on a tunnel under the Las Vegas Convention Center, which is supposed to be almost a mile long and will shorten a 15-minute walk to a 1-minute commute via specially modified Tesla electric vehicles, which will provide seating and standing space for up to 16 passengers. The tunnel is reported to be half-finished and will soon be operational.

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The Chinese Coronavirus, first detected in Wuhan city located in Hubei province, has now been detected in all of China's 31 provinces with 170 victims dead and an estimated 7,700 more infected all over China. The first Coronavirus case was also detected in Tibet and Finland, marking more than a dozen countries with confirmed cases of the disease.

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At the Australian Open's quarter-finals, Austrian player Dominic Thiem defeated world number one Rafael Nadal in a hard-fought battle which saw him winning 7-6, 7-6, 4-6, 7-6 against Nadal, who was the top-seed throughout the tournament. Thiem proceeds to the semi-finals to face Alexander Zverev, who defeated Stan Wawrinka to earn a place at his first semi-finals at a major.

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At US president Donald Trump's impeachment trial, being presided over by Chief Justice John Roberts, tensions heightened as senators submitted questions for approval, to be put to witnesses during senate interrogations. Trump's defense team maintains that the president only withheld aid from Ukraine to combat corrupt practices, with Democrats objecting to the stipulation.

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Bethesda, developer of popular games such as Fallout, Skyrim and Dishonored, has announced a day-long sale in collaboration with its online stores Bethesda.net and the Humble Store, in order to provide charitable contributions during Australia's devastating fire season. All proceeds from the sale will go to the Australian Red Cross.

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Researchers at the National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope on Mount Haleakala in Hawaii aimed the unfinished 4-meter-wide telescope at the Sun, capturing pictures of the star in greater detail than ever before. Researchers hope the new telescope will help build a better understanding for why the Sun's atmosphere is millions of degrees hotter than its surface.

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Last Thursday, famous rapper Eminem released a surprise album called "Music to Be Murdered By", marking his first album since 2018's "Kamikaze". The album has immediately risen to the number one spot on the Billboard 200, with more than 218 million streams since its release. This marks Eminem's tenth number one album, in the same league as the records of The Beatles, Jay-Z, Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand and Elvis Presley.

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Tesla reported its second consecutive quarterly profit in the fourth quarter of 2019, after years of losses and production woes. With the company beating deadlines for production of its new model Y and promising more than 500,000 units in production for 2020, investor confidence in Tesla has increased, improving its stock price by 13 percent.

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Sideshow, a company specializing in manufacturing life-size and accurate versions of popular items, recently announced that their life-size and life-like Baby Yoda figurine was available for pre-order, with their website almost immediately crashing after the announcement due to the number of pre-ordering users. The figurine costs 350 USD, with an allowance for payment plans, and will be delivered to customers between August and October 2020.

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