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Thousands of people evacuated their seaside towns and fled to the beaches in order to escape the bushfires that were closing in. These people are now trapped on these beaches and the government is asking for help with the evacuations. They have asked both the military and the US for assistance.

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India is experiencing a kind of cold wave, with large cities taking the brunt of the impact as pollution levels also rise. Dehli, in particular, has seen one its coldest days in over a century as the maximum temperature dropped to 9.4 degrees celsius. Homeless shelters all over the city are filling up as people try to escape the cold.

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The Critics Choice Association has announced that this year's lifetime achievement award will go to Eddie Murphy. While making the announcement they noted that Murphy was one of the most commercially successful African American actors in history, having played a number of iconic roles over the course of his career.

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'Friends', one of the world's most popular and successful sitcoms, will no longer be available to Netflix users in the US. The show will be moved to Warner Bros' new project, HBO Max when it launches in May. The show was going to be removed earlier this year but Netflix extended their license at the cost of $80 million.

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According to new rumors and renderings, Google's new Pixel 4a smartphone will include a headphone jack and a hole-punch display. These may become standout features for the device in 2020 with many companies moving away from the headphone jack, even among mid-range devices. The phone will likely release sometime in May 2020.

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God Game The Universim is entering its beta testing phase with one final update that will add a number of new more efficient planets. The game aims to provide a full civilization building experience for its players, allowing them to follow a civilization from the neolithic stage to the galaxy exploration stage.

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According to football lawmakers, the video-assisted referee is being used too often and is going in a direction that they did not intend. They clarified that the system is only to be used to fix obvious and clear mistakes, not forensically determine every decision that the referee is supposed to make.

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North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, has called a meeting of all his top officials in order to ensure that the country has 'positive and offensive' security before the denuclearisation deadline at the end of the year. People are unsure of what this means exactly but many feel North Korea will be making some provocative actions against the US and South Korea.

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Tesla, the world-famous electric car manufacturer, has already started delivering cars that it built in its new Shanghai factory. The plant was built earlier this year and cost the company $2 billion. The factory will ensure Tesla is unaffected by any future trade war between the US and China.

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The Irish government has announced that it will make the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030 in order to reduce the total pollution in the country. The government hopes that a third of all cars on the road in the country will be electric by 2030. They hope the area will be carbon neutral by 2050.

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China has been holding a large number of Uighur Muslims in internment camps and has also sent the children of these Muslims to state-run boarding schools. These schools are built to indoctrinate children from an early age to pledge their loyalty to the state. These schools are heavily guarded and are off-limits to most people.

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Mark Carney, the chief of The Bank of England, has said that unless we make drastic changes to what firms prioritize, the world will face the devastating effects of climate change. He has said that the financial sector is moving too slow to prevent this from happening. He warned that most firms would lose their assets if climate change took place.

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Australia is currently battling wildfires that are popping up all over the country, particularly in places that are habitats to a number of species. Koalas, Kangaroos and a number of other animals unique to Australia are dying in the millions and may even become endangered. Currently, only volunteers and donation run NGO's are attempting to protect these animals.

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He Jiankui, a Chinese scientist who claimed to have created a kind of AIDs vaccine via gene editing, has been sentenced to three years in prison. He was charged with practicing medicine without having the required qualifications. His experiment drew widespread criticism for its violation of ethical principles and poor reporting.

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Moscow is experiencing its highest December temperatures in around a century and has not had any snowfall this time. Flowers in the capital have bloomed early due to the lack of snow and the government has been forced to use artificial snow to create snowboarding slopes. Temperatures there have even reached 5.4 degrees celsius.

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Zac Efron, an actor most well known for his roles in High School Musical and 17 again, was hospitalized in Papa New Guinea while filming his new show 'Killing Zac Efron'. The actor later said that he got sick while in the country and made a full recovery. He also said that they were able to finish the shoot.

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Popular indie game Superhot has recently gotten a VR edition that is currently available for sale on Steam. This version of the game has made over $2 million in just the first week after its release. The game has been widely acclaimed, by both fans and critics, particularly for its innovative mechanics.

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Liverpool won against the Wolverhampton Wanderers and has managed to hang on to its 13 point lead at the top of the Premier League table. The match ended 1-0 with the Wolves getting one of their goals disqualified by the video assistant referee for a marginal offside. This will be Liverpool's first league title in 30 years.

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An influential Malaysian Muslim preacher has asked Muslims all over the world to boycott Chinese products due to the Chinese government's human rights abuses against Uighur Muslims. He asked Muslim governments to implement the boycott on a formal level in order to place pressure on China although no country has done so yet.

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According to a new study, children are better able to remember story details if the book they read was animated in an interactive manner as opposed to not being animated at all. The study found that children learn more if they are more involved in the learning process. These findings only apply to children still in the picture book stage.

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Since Amazon has picked up fan-favorite sci-fi show 'The Expanse', the actors on the show have said that they would like to shoot 'on location'. They were likely referencing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's spaceflight company Blue Origin when they made these comments. The idea may be far fetched but is not impossible.

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Orlando Jones, the actor who plays Mr. Nancy on American Gods, has said that Starz was unwilling to pay him for helping write some of the characters on the show. The [roducers asked him to contribute but did not want to pay him initially, despite the fact that he is a part of the writer's guild in Hollywood. He was paid eventually after much conflict.

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Green Hell, a popular jungle survival simulator, has recently received a giant update. The game will now also feature a co-op mode to go along with its single-player campaign and will also allow players to build shelters that are more than one story high. The game is ranked as one of the best games to be released on Steam in 2019.

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According to a tweet by Elon Musk, Boring Co's commercial tunnel in Las Vegas will "hopefully" be operational in the year 2020. A draft environmental assessment was issued in April by the U.S. Transportation Department, for a Washington DC- Baltimore tunnel, as a first step in a governmental review of this project. The company has managed to raised $117 million with funding from 20 unnamed investors.

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Italy's Supreme Court has made the controversial decision to legalize growing cannabis at home, so long as it is only used by the grower. The drug will still be unavailable for sale and is still a heavily debated issue within the country. Many of the country's largest political parties still oppose it, with just the Five Star Party in favor of legalization.

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