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10.29am GMT
Thanksgiving is all the time the ultimate Thursday in November, however this 12 months the timing couldn’t be worse. As the vacation approaches, 1000’s of school college students are going again dwelling for the winter as faculties shut their campuses, finish their semester, or transfer courses on-line. What they received’t be ending is the unfold of Covid-19.
Instances within the US have risen exponentially over the previous few weeks, with every day new circumstances near 200,000 and present hospitalizations reaching 80,000. Not like the earlier two waves of circumstances within the spring and summer season, the rise in circumstances shouldn’t be concentrated in a single area. Instances are rising in most elements of the nation.
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10.19am GMT
By the best way, if you wish to familiarise your self with Antony Blinken, who Joe Biden has picked to be his secretary of state, then late final evening Politico’s European site published this guide.
Blinken’s ties to Europe are lifelong, deep and private — and he’s a fierce believer within the transatlantic alliance.
“Put merely, the world is safer for the American individuals when we have now buddies, companions and allies,” Blinken mentioned in 2016. He has described Europe as “an important accomplice” and has dismissed the Trump administration’s plans to take away US troops from Germany as “silly, it’s spiteful, and it’s a strategic loser. It weakens Nato, it helps Vladimir Putin, and it harms Germany, our most essential ally in Europe.”
