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Jihadists Attack Village Near Mozambique Gas Project – Islamist militants have attacked and occupied a northern Mozambican village in their closest raid yet to a giant gas project, military sources said. [ewn]

No ‘Punch Ups’ At ANC NEC Meeting, Says Ramaphosa As Magashule Heads To Integrity Committee – The big news coming out of the meeting is that Magashule will present himself before the party’s Integrity Commission on 12 December. [news24]

Supreme Court Rejects Pennsylvania Republicans’ Attempt To Block Biden Victory – The Supreme Court’s action is a crushing loss for Trump, who has frequently touted the high court’s potential to overturn his election loss. [cnn]

SA Records 183 Covid-19 Deaths In Past 24 hours, As Cases Climb To 821,889 – Mkhize confirmed that 4,011 new infections were recorded in the past 24 hours. This was from 28,127 tests, at a positivity rate of 14.2%. [timeslive]

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Denies Sending Hit Squad To Canada – He pointed out that he is immune from prosecution as a head of state. Serving foreign leaders are also normally immune from civil suits in the US. [bbc]

Watch Out For Tax Refund Scammers, Warns SARS – SARS is being inundated with desperate calls from taxpayers who have fallen victim to scammers promising to secure large tax refunds. [here]

Long A Holdout From Covid-19 Restrictions, Sweden Ends Its Pandemic Experiment – Government imposes mandatory measures after failing to contain new surge in infections. [wsj]

SA’s Newest Airline Takes To The Skies, With Snacks From Vida And Crew Outfits By Superbalist – Lift will operate its first commercial flight between Johannesburg and Cape Town on Thursday 10 December. [businsidersa]

Ghislaine Maxwell Is *Still* Not Having A Good Time In Jail – Maxwell, the woman accused of recruiting and grooming girls for pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, is losing her hair and has lost more than 15 pounds, her lawyer alleged in a legal filing Monday. [vice]

Covid-19 May Be A Driver Of Poor Behaviour On SA roads – 2020 has been possibly the most stressful year ever for South Africans, and that stress stays with them when they get behind the wheel. [busday]

Public Protector & ‘Rogue Unit’: How A Big Lie Became A Bigger And Bigger Lie – For six long years, the mythical and invented SARS “rogue unit” was stuck like a noxious spider in the centre of the State Capture web. [dailymav]

Mount Everest Has Officially Grown By Nearly A Metre – Kathmandu and Beijing each sent surveyors to the summit and agreed that the official height is 8,848.86 metres (29,031.69ft), slightly higher than previous calculations. [sky]

Fresh Start – Six Tips For Getting Your Finances Sorted Before The New Year – As a new year approaches, consider this a reminder that starting 2021 with your finances in order is a great way to kick things off. [here]

PSG V Basaksehir UCL Game Suspended After Alleged Racist Abuse By Official – The row erupted after Basaksehir assistant coach Pierre Webo, the former Cameroon international, was shown a red card during a fierce row on the touchline. [enca]

Man Utd Count Cost Of Champions League Exit Against RB Leipzig – The damage will be felt in the accounts, in the dealings they have with current and potentially future players and in the faith the fans have placed in manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. [bbcsport]

Tulum’s Burning Man Knockoff Became A COVID Superspreader Event – Art With Me, an art and music festival that ran Nov. 11-15 in Tulum, Mexico, promised to “nurture personal growth.” Many attendees got COVID instead—and brought it back to the U.S. [dbeast]

Christopher Nolan Leads Industry Fury Over Warner Bros’ Streaming Move – Tenet director says studio’s decision to release its entire 2021 slate in the US simultaneously in cinemas and on HBO Max is ‘not how you treat film-makers’. [guardian]

Eve Jobs, Daughter Of Steve Jobs, Makes Her Modelling Debut – Jobs, an accomplished show-jumper and a Stanford University student due to graduate in 2021, poses in the bath wearing an under eye mask and holding Glossier’s glassy shine Lip Gloss. [telegraph]

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