World Issues & Politics: 9 of 10
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Ice hockey player Johnson dies after neck cut
Nottingham Panthers' Adam Johnson dies after suffering a cut to his neck from a skate in a Challenge Cup match against the Sheffield Steelers.
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Here's what to know about Turkey's decision to move forward with Sweden's bid to join NATO
Sweden edged closer toward joining NATO after the Turkish Parliament’s foreign affairs committee greenlighted a protocol for the Nordic country’s membership in the military alliance.
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Alabama station in disbelief after 200-foot radio tower stolen
A radio station in Alabama was forced to go silent after thieves stole its 200-foot radio tower and other equipment from a building.
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Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe
Sizeable Jewish and Muslim communities lived across large swathes of medieval Western Europe. But all the Muslim communities and almost all the Jewish communities in polities that correspond to present-day England, France, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, and Spain were eradicated between 1064 and 1526. Most studies of ethnoreligious violence in Europe focus on communal, regional, and national political dynamics to explain its outbreak and variation. Recent scholarship shows how the Catholic Church in medieval Europe contributed to the long-term political development and the “rise of the West.”
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Full Monty actor Tom Wilkinson dies aged 75
Family of British Oscar-nominated actor have announced his death
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Jury awards $1.2 million to Robert De Niro’s former assistant in gender discrimination lawsuit
A jury has awarded over $1.2 million to Robert De Niro's former personal assistant after finding his production company engaged in gender discrimination and retaliation.
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The nocebo effect? Six surprising things about placebos everyone should know
Even though placebos have been widely studied, there are still many things about them that will surprise you.
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Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America's Ruling Class, Finally Dies
Henry Kissinger has died at age 100, his consulting firm said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Copyright Remains A Complete Mess: A Tale In Two Stories
Here are two separate stories regarding the mess that is modern copyright law, that is now mostly “mediated” by companies that half-ass randomly deal with things and sometimes do not. While this is…
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Check out the NDA Jeff Bezos' housekeeper was forced to sign before she could clean his toilets
A lawsuit has uncovered the non-disclosure agreement required to to clean Bezos' properties — and his obsession with privacy.
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Unity Bosses Sold Stock Ahead Of Scummy Dev Fees Announcement
CEO John Riccitiello sold 2,000 shares a week before Unity revealed its Runtime Fee
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'Game of Thrones' actor Joseph Gatt sues LA for $40M over false pedophile charges
'Game of Thrones' actor Joseph Gatt sues City of Los Angeles, LAPD, and DA for $40M over false pedophile charges
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Ghostwriter shares insight into Noem book process
“Celebrity memoirs, they are fan fiction,” Lisec said. “You take a couple of details then expand it."
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HAARP experiments could cause artificial aurora over Alaska this weekend
Researchers from around the country are conducting four days of experiments at the Gakona facility that could put splotches of red and green light overhead at times.
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A lawsuit filed against a bitcoin mine in Texas has shed light on a growing trend: US crypto mines backed by millions of dollars from Chinese investors
A rise in cryptocurrency-mining facilities in Texas and other states has come under scrutiny for the industry's ties to Chinese investment.
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US links Indian official to murder plot that India calls 'contrary to policy'
The charges come after a senior Biden administration official last week said US authorities had thwarted a plot to kill a Sikh separatist in the United States.
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The EU is probing X's response to Israel-Hamas misinformation
Two days after EU Commissioner Thierry Breton sent an "urgent" letter to Elon Musk over X's handling of misinformation, the governing body has opened a probe into the platform formerly known as Twitter.
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Luxury brand Gucci became ‘sustainable’ - by cooking the books
Fashion brand Gucci and other big multinationals claim they managed to meet their main climate target within a few years: emitting less CO2 . That sounds nice – but it’s not actually true, Follow the Money found.
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Texas Board of Education urged to reject climate-accurate textbooks
Republican state official pans scientific consensus as a “woke environmental agenda.”
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Family of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett speaks out following his death
John Barnett died earlier this month in what the coroner called an apparent suicide, just before he was set to resume testifying in a whistleblower lawsuit against Boeing.