Hi,

I'm trying to reproduce this, but no luck, I'm able to fetch news (cnet
also).

Is it possible that you are testing this in a foreigen environment?
(Is so, you might need to `SSL_CERT_DIR=/etc/ssl/certs calibre` ...)

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