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President Trump and his grandchildren return from Camp David

President Trump Returns To The White House From Camp David. WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 29: U.S. President Donald Trump, followed by his grandchildren, Arabella Kushner, Theodore Kushner, and Joseph Kushner walk on the south lawn of the White House on November 29, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump spent the weekend at Camp David and at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Carrie Lam's American sanctions hurting

The chief executive of Hong Kong has said she keeps her one million Australian dollar salary at home in “piles of cash” because she has no bank account after the imposition of US sanctions. “I have piles of cash at home. The government is paying me in cash because I don’t have a bank account.” Hong Kong’s leader admitted that US sanctions imposed on her because of the national security law will be an inconvenience but said she and her colleagues will not be intimidated and that it felt honourable to be trusted by Beijing to enforce the legislation. Under the sanctions, the US-based assets of individuals or entities are blocked and Americans and businesses are generally prohibited from dealing with those officials. Carrie Lam admitted in the interview with the English-language broadcaster that the sanctions would be an inconvenience. “We have to use some financial services and we don’t know whether that will relate back to an agency that has some American business, and the use of credit cards will be sort of hampered and so on,” she said. “But those are really meaningless, as far as I am concerned.

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh assassination

Iran's Supreme Leader has ordered 'definitive punishment' for those behind the assassination of a prominent nuclear scientist dubbed the 'father' of the rogue nation's bomb programme (pictured: Iran's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Ebrahim Raisi pays respect to Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi)

Stone Age arrows found in Norway

The oldest arrows date from around 4100 BC while the youngest are from roughly AD 1300, based on radiocarbon analysis. An extraordinary number of arrows dating from the Stone Age to the medieval period have melted out of a single ice patch in Norway in recent years because of climate change. Researchers from the Universities of Cambridge, Oslo and Bergen gathered up a total of 68 arrow shafts, some with arrow heads still attached or nearby, and many other artefacts. Almost all of the items were found on an area of mountainside no bigger than 18 hectares in Jotunheimen, a region of southern Norway…… Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2260700-climate-change-has-revealed-a-huge-haul-of-ancient-arrows-in-norway/#ixzz6f7wxuc8p

The Australian Anzac Legend

Credit: Warren, Daily Telegraph cartoonist

Black cockatoos damaging WA fruit

The Carnaby's black cockatoo is endangered because of land-clearing (Supplied: Birdlife Australia) The WA apple and pear, or pome, industry says black cockatoos are causing so much damage the State Government should fund netting to keep the birds out of orchards, avoiding more harmful control measures. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-11-25/black-cockatoos-damage-apple-harvest/12915174

Australian live lobsters dying in China

Seafood exporter Andrew Ferguson says it is too risky to continue shipping lobsters to China.(ABC News: Lincoln Rothall). He recently had three shipments of live lobsters die in China because of lengthy delays in customs testing. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-25/australian-businesses-caught-up-in-china-trade-dispute/12919074

Iran swaps Kylie Moore-Gilbert for 3 prisoners held abroad

Kylie Moore-Gilbert was a lecturer at Melbourne University. Iran swaps British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert with three prisoners held abroad. She has been freed after more than 800 days behind bars. Dr Moore-Gilbert was arrested and charged with espionage in September 2018, and held in solitary confinement. She was tried in secret and denied all the charges against her.

Iran hopes US will abandon Trump's policies

AFP. “We hope that in its first steps, the next US administration will explicitly condemn Trump’s policies on Iran,” the president said, calling the policies “anti-human rights and terroristic”.

China's lunar samples tribute to Chairman Mao

The Chang’e-5 mission is launched to bring back rocks from the surface of the moon WANG LONGHUA/GETTY. Chairman Mao never lived to see a successful Chinese lunar mission but Beijing plans to honour him by sending moon rocks from its latest space venture to his birthplace. The chief designer of the moon mission, which blasted off this week, told a local newspaper that some of its lunar samples would be sent to the southern province of Hunan as a tribute to the founding figure of the communist republic.

New Zealand Parliament Opens

Opening Of New Zealand's 53rd Parliament. NZ PM Jacinda Ardern greets Maori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi before swearing in.

Diego Maradona mourners outside his home

Mourners gather outside the home of Diego Maradona, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Argentine soccer great who was among the best players ever and who led his country to the 1986 World Cup title, died from a heart attack at his home. He was 60.

North Texas Food Bank

Vehicles surrounded Fair Park as they awaited entry to the North Texas Food Bank's mega-distribution on Saturday.( Tom Fox). With the crisis continuing to inflict hunger across the region, Saturday’s event was geared toward Thanksgiving, providing turkeys and other holiday staples to some 8,500 families.

Vladivostok, Russia

Industrial climbers remove ice from the cables of the Russky Bridge, which lies across the Eastern Bosphorus Strait, after the bridge was closed due to a snowstorm: Viktor Gokhovich/Tass/Getty Images

Afghanistan set to receive $12 billion UN aid

Taliban members gathered under a tree in March in Alingar District of Laghman Province, Afghanistan.Credit...Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times. Donors demanded an immediate ceasefire in Afghanistan on Tuesday as they pledged around $12 billion in aid over four years, but tied their money to civil rights being upheld in peace talks with the Taliban. At a virtual global donor conference hosted from the UN in Geneva, countries affirmed their commitment to propping up a nation beset by violence between the Taliban and government forces, rampant corruption and an imminent withdrawal of US troops.

Dentist Peter Carr suspended

Dentist Peter Carr 76 was found guilty of indecently assaulting a dental nurse in 2018.(AAP Image: Peter Rae). He worked at Smile Care Dental practice in Double Bay in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs and is currently suspended from practice. However, he is now facing disciplinary action by the Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC), including the cancellation of his registration.

Ant Middleton jailed over police assault

Ant Middleton from SAS Australia has opened up about his time in jail. The star of hit Channel 7 reality show, SAS Australia, said he is happy to have served his time after initially being sentenced to 14 months in prison for assaulting two police officers outside a nightclub in 2013.

Jehovah's Witnesses arrested in Moscow

Several leaders of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia have been detained by law enforcement officers under legislation outlawing the religious group. In a statement published on the website of the Investigative Committee on Tuesday, authorities reported the arrests of several people after a “conspiratorial gathering” in a private apartment in Moscow. At the meeting, “followers studied religious literature and information contained in other sources of information propagating the teachings of Jehovah’s Witnesses, and carried out other actions characteristic of the group.” In 2017, membership of the Christian denomination was banned by the Russian Supreme Court after a request from the government. The decision was widely condemned abroad as a perceived infringement of religious freedoms. However, a survey of the general public found that more than three-quarters supported the decision, with some responding that “they go from house to house, harassing people on the streets and calling them on the phone.”

Joe Biden to receive President's Daily Brief

The White House has given the nod for President-elect Joe Biden to receive the President’s Daily Brief, a classified intelligence document prepared for the commander in chief each day, according to multiple media reports. While he has yet to receive his first briefing, Biden was approved for the PDB on Tuesday, Reuters and CNN reported, citing anonymous White House officials. The move gives the new president-elect access to sensitive intelligence and classified national security information, which typically occurs soon after a candidate wins an election.

Paedophiles go undetected thanks to Facebook

David Wilson pleaded guilty at Ipswich crown court to 96 offences against 51 boys NATIONAL CRIME AGENCY. One of Britain’s most prolific paedophiles, David Wilson, who contacted more than 5,000 children online, would not have been brought to justice under Facebook’s plans to encrypt its messages. According to the National Crime Agency (NCA), Facebook’s plans to install end-to-end encryption, increasing privacy, would mean such offenders would go undetected.

McCubbin's lost masterpiece found

Obscured from onlookers by layers of vibrant green and brown brushstrokes, Found, which depicts a life-size bushman holding a small child, was previously known solely through a small black-and-white photograph included in the artist’s scrapbook. Michael Varcoe-Cocks, the gallery’s head of conservation, rediscovered the lost masterpiece after noticing the shadow of an odd shape on Frederick McCubbin's The Pioneer’s surface. Source: Smithsonian

Notre-Dame, Paris

Workers on a crane look at Notre-Dame cathedral site in Paris, France.

Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Navy guards of honour attend a ceremony for the start of construction of a new submarine fleet. Photograph: Ann Wang/Reuters

Paris, France

Gendarmes begin to evacuate a makeshift camp set up by migrants in the Place de la République one week after they were evacuated from another camp in Saint-Denis. Photograph: Michael Bunel/Le Pictorium /ZUMA/Rex

Kathmandu, Nepal

Students maintain social distancing during exams. Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

Huon Acquaculture fire

Huon Aquaculture has salmon pens in waterways around the Tasmanian coast. (Supplied: Huon Aquaculture). Fifty-thousand Tasmanian farmed salmon have made a dash for freedom after a rare fire in a commercial aquaculture enclosure off Tasmania’s coast. Huon Aquaculture said the fire broke out early this morning, melting part of the pen and allowing the fish to give the company the slip. "Escaped salmon typically don't last long, unfortunately, what the seals don't get, the fisherman quickly do."

Australia’s private school fees freeze for 2021

Australia’s most expensive private schools are freezing tuition fees in 2021, signalling the end of a 20-year cycle of above-inflation price rises across the sector. Source: The Australian.

John Kerry picked for Climate Change

Joe Biden has selected John Kerry, pictured here in February, as his climate change envoy. (AP: Andrew Harnik)

Qantas boss says proof of vaccination needed before flying

Proof of COVID-19 vaccination will be a non-negotiable condition of international air travel, according to the Qantas CEO Alan Joyce. “For international travellers, we will ask people to have a vaccination before they get on the aircraft,’’ he said.

Childhood home of Jesus found in Nazareth

Professor Ken Dark, a British archaeologist, has studied the 1st-century dwelling found under a convent in northern Israel for 14 years. There is a strong case that a well-preserved 1st-century house excavated at Nazareth was the childhood home of Jesus, a British archaeologist has claimed. Ken Dark, professor of archaeology and history at Reading University, said that a 19th-century identification of ruins at the Sisters of Nazareth Convent as the house of Joseph had been dismissed out of hand by archaeologists in the 1930s and rejected by scholars ever since.

Platypus fast disappearing

When naturalists in the late 18th century were first presented with evidence of a platypus they dismissed the dead specimen that had been sent back from the new colony of Australia, as a hoax. The semi aquatic, egg-laying mammals with bills that resembled a duck’s were, however, so numerous that they could be found deep into the inland waterways all along the east coast, from north Queensland to the southern island of Tasmania. Yet scientists have found the platypus is fast disappearing, in part due to last year’s devastating fires, and are calling for it to be given threatened status and greater protection. Source: The Times

Kashmire' first snowfall

An elderly Kashmir villager walks on a snow covered road during the season's first snowfall on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at court

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy arrives for the opening hearing of his trial for attempted bribery of a judge on 23 November 2020 at Paris courthouse. Prosecutors say Sarkozy promised the judge a plush job in Monaco in exchange for inside information on a separate inquiry.

Sydney, Australia

Passengers disembark from the first Qantas flight from Melbourne following the lifting of border restrictions. Restrictions were lifted between New South Wales and Victoria at midnight last night allowing people coming from Victoria to enter New South Wales without having to go into 14-day isolation Photograph: Dean Lewins/EPA

China eliminating poverty in Tibetan villages

Poverty alleviation measures in Bulenggou have involved the state creating jobs for people CHEN JUNQING/XINHUA/ALAMY. The mountainous Muslim village on the edge of the Tibetan plateau had no running water and no hard road. Villagers spent four hours a day fetching water with donkeys. That was eight years ago. Now, all of Bulenggou’s 62 families have moved into a new settlement of government-built courtyard homes, each with running water. To whom should these villagers in the arid Chinese region of southern Gansu give thanks for this upgrade in their fortunes? The centrepiece of every courtyard is a tap. A back panel carries two lines painted in red: “Don't forget President Xi when drinking water; Forever be grateful to the Communist Party.”

There are no pictures of the Dalai Lama to be seen. Their living rooms carry portraits of Communist leaders. Despite their Tibetan ethnicity, the residents of this settlement have Han Chinese names

The true history of the Faulklands War

Argentine prisoners of war in Port Stanley. Credit: Ken Griffiths. The latest season of Netflix’s “The Crown” features a fictionalized version of the 1982 clash, pitting Thatcher (Gillian Anderson) against Elizabeth II (Olivia Colman) in a battle of wills over Britain’s future. Here’s what you need to know to separate fact from fiction while watching the series’ depiction of the conflict. A brief history of the Faulklands War https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brief-history-falklands-war-180976349/

Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Discorder (FASD)

Anne Russell worries about her son Seth, who spends most of his time in his caravan.(ABC Far North: Marian Faa). Anne Russell thought it was safe to drink alcohol while pregnant with her son, Seth, but her actions led to him being born with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) — a condition she believes pushed him into the criminal justice system. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-23/foetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder-in-youth-justice-system/12885632

Golan Heights discovery of ancient statuette

The researchers found a statuette of a woman holding a musical instrument that appears to be a drum. (Israel Antiquities Authority). Archaeologists in the Golan Heights, a 500-square-mile plateau claimed by both Israel and Syria, have found the ruins of the area’s oldest known fortified settlement. As Amanda Borschel-Dan reports for the Times of Israel, the structure appears to date to the time of the biblical King David and may have been part of the Kingdom of Geshur.

Pompeii: bodies of master and young slave discovered

This undated photo handout from November 21st issued by the Pompeii Archaeological Park shows casts of the bodies of two men, a 40-year-old master and his young slave, after they were found during recent excavations of a Villa in Civita Giuliana in the outskirts of Pompeii, as Park officials said conditions were optimal to get casts of the victims, following the technique perfected in 1863 by Giuseppe Fiorelli. Photograph: Pompei Achaeological Park/AFP/Luigi Spina via Getty

Victorian vampire slaying kit dated 1857

Precautions: The case contains 1) a rosary 2) crucifix 3) a handwritten psalm (Luke 20:27) 4) a pistol 5) four oak stakes 6) a bottle of consecrated earth 7) a common prayer book 8) a wooden mallet 9) silver bullet mold 10) a cloth 11) two glass bottles containing garlic paste and holy water.

Arches National Park, Utah

Photographer Zach Cooley captured the stunning image at Arches National Park in Utah on the Halloween weekend on October 28.

Emese Fajk - mystery buyer on The Block

But one quiet, self-assured young woman - dubbed a “mystery blonde” by presenter Shelley Craft - beat Wallis at his own game, outbidding him to secure this season’s winning house for a massive $4.256 million. That mysterious woman is Emese Fajk, a cyber security specialist who moved to Australia from New York a year ago. Publicly available business listings show that Hungarian-born Fajk, 28, had also worked in London before New York.

Danny Wallis spends almost $12 million in one day

One man dominated auction day on The Block this year, offering “insane” bids on every single house and buying three in the process. Danny Wallis, the super-rich IT entrepreneur spent almost $12 million in one day.

Trump’s Revenge

There is no question that Democrats, who were the daily targets of Trump’s fury and insults during the 2016 presidential campaign, pushed back quite hard after he won. Green Party candidate Jill Stein, with the support of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, pursued recounts in key battleground states. Many Democrats, including Clinton in 2019, called Trump’s presidency “illegitimate” and nearly 70 skipped Trump’s inauguration in 2017. House Democrats impeached him in 2019. So, the US can only watch and wait as Trump’s revenge tour plays out – a tour that numerous historians, election law experts, and even some fellow Republicans argue is delegitimising election integrity and imperilling democracy. Source: Aljazeera

NSW agrees to Aboriginal Cultural Burning

Cultural burning practitioners say the new advisory roles recognise Aboriginal knowledge.(Supplied: Mick Holton). For the first time in the the state's history, Aboriginal leaders will play a role in advising the state's main bushfire management committee. The new Bushfires Legislation Amendment Bill passed through Parliament yesterday, mandating three Indigenous positions be added to the Bushfire Coordinating Committee…..

Joe Biden touched by tragedy

Joe Biden with his son Beau, the Delaware attorney-general, at the 2008 Democratic National Convention GETTY IMAGES. The life of the president-elect had already been touched by tragedy – the death of his first wife and daughter in a car crash and when, in 2013, his eldest son, Beau died, after being diagnosed with brain cancer.

Guan Gong statue in China may be moved

The huge Guan Gong statue in Jingzhou, Hubei (Photo: SCMP). According to the Global Times, the giant bronze statue of Guan Gong is being removed from Kinh Chau Park after being criticized as “a waste of eyes” by China’s Ministry of Housing and Rural Development. According to China’s Ministry of Housing and Rural Development, the statue is too large and “makes the viewer uncomfortable” and “does not match the landscape and historical context,” and needs to be removed. Guan Yu is a famous general during the Han Dynasty in China. His job was to defend Kinh Chau, but he lost the fortress and then his life. According to the description of the famous novel “Three Kingdoms Dien Nghia”, Quan Cong is a man of great love, good at martial arts and was named one of the “Five Tigers” under Liu Bei.

New frescos found at Pompeii

Excavation work at Pompeii has revealed a fresco of the Greek hero Theseus abandoning Ariadne while she sleeps, the latest in a series of stunning finds at the buried Roman city. Perfectly preserved since Pompeii was buried in ash by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, the fresco of Theseus depicts him leaving Ariadne after she helps him kill the Minotaur — half man, half bull — on Crete.