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After more than 60 years spent sealed up in a library storage facility, about 1,000 letters written by poet TS Eliot to confidante Emily Hale will be unveiled this week, and scholars hope they will reveal the extent of a relationship that has been speculated about for decades.
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Read more: TS Eliot’s letters to ‘muse’ to be unveiled after 60 years
Write comment (100 Comments)There was a stunning sunrise over the North East coast on Wednesday morning as the country ushered in 2020.
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Read more: In Pictures: New Year swimmers take the plunge
Write comment (97 Comments)Severe flooding hit Indonesiacapital as residents were celebrating the new year, killing at least nine people, displacing thousands and forcing the closure of a domestic airport.
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Read more: Nine dead as New Year revellers caught in flooding in Indonesia’s capital
Write comment (94 Comments)Australia deployed military ships and aircraft on Wednesday to help communities ravaged by devastating wildfires that have left at least 17 people dead nationwide and sent thousands of residents and holidaymakers fleeing to the shoreline.
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Read more: Australia sends aid by sea and air to wildfire towns as death toll rises
Write comment (100 Comments)A huge crowd gathered in Hong Kong on Wednesday for an annual New YearDay protest march as the months-long pro-democracy movement extended into 2020.
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Read more: Big crowd gathers in Hong Kong for first pro-democracy protest of 2020
Write comment (97 Comments)US troops fired tear gas on Wednesday as Iran-backed militiamen and other protesters who had gathered outside the American embassy in Baghdad for a second day set fire to the roof of a reception area inside the embassy compound.
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Read more: US troops fire tear gas at pro-Iran protesters in Iraq
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