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Leaked photos from Xinjiang include mugshots of Uyghurs detained for expressing faith
Documents show records of arbitrary detention for as long as a decade for trivial acts, as well as shoot-to-kill policy for those who try to escape
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Pebbles, 22, unseats TobyKeith the chihuahua as world’s oldest dog
Terrier’s family contacted Guinness World Records after learning younger dog had received honor
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India sentences Kashmir pro-freedom leader to life in prison
A court in New Delhi sentences the top Kashmiri pro-freedom leader to life term in ‘terrorism’ funding case.
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Kevin Spacey Charged in UK With 4 Counts of Sexual Assault
The alleged incidents took place in London between March 2005 and August 2008, and in western England in April 2013.
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Big Tech is pouring millions into the wrong climate solution in Davos
Alphabet, Microsoft and Salesforce today pledged $ 500 million for new climate technology that is supposed to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to prevent it from warming the planet. It’s Big Tech’s latest move to push emerging technology forward while portraying itself as a global leader when it comes to acting on climate change.
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Pfizer will not sell drugs for profit in poor nations
US pharmaceutical firm Pfizer said it would sell its patented drugs at cost to 45 low-income countries.
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Ukraine war is visible from space, astronaut says
AGerman astronaut who has just returned to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) has spoken of his impressions of the war in Ukraine from space. European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Matthias Maurer, 52, said that while in orbit, he could see rocket impacts in Kyiv and clouds of smoke above the cities that had been bombarded.
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New evidence suggests Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in targeted attack by Israeli forces(CNN).
Witness testimony and videos obtained by CNN reveal how the veteran Palestinian-American journalist was shot dead in a targeted attack in the West Bank, while she was covering an Israeli raid with a group of other reporters.
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Millionaires join Davos protests, demanding ‘tax us now’
Group call for fresh taxation of wealthy to tackle cost of living crisis and gulf between rich and poor
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WHO chief: The COVID pandemic is 'most certainly not over'
BERLIN (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic is “most certainly not over,” the head of the World Health Organization warned Sunday, despite a decline in reported cases since the peak of the omicron wave. He told governments that “we lower our guard at our peril.”
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Ukraine must decide its own future, says Poland's president
Only Ukraine has the right to decide its future, the Polish president told lawmakers in Kyiv on Sunday, as he became the first foreign leader to give a speech in person to the Ukrainian parliament since Russia's Feb. 24 invasion.
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Giant Sinkhole in China Reveals Massive Ancient Forest
Cave explorers in the Guangxi region of China have found a secret ancient forest hidden inside a 630-foot-deep sinkhole. As seen in a Twitter video posted by the China state-affiliated media organization CGTN earlier this month, the karst sinkhole — formed by rainwater that dissolves bedrock — exceeds 5 million cubic meters in area.
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A world grain shortage puts tens of millions at risk
In 2001 olena nazarenko’s father started farming in Lukashivka, a small village about 100km north of Kyiv, with three cows and a horse called Rosa (”Dew” in Ukrainian). In 2020 Mrs Nazarenko and her husband Andriy inherited the 400-hectare (1,000-acre) farm, now named Rosa after that founding horse. Early this year they took out a substantial loan to cover fertiliser for the coming spring-wheat crop.
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Ukraine rules out ceasefire as fighting intensifies in Donbas
Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or concessions to Moscow while Russia intensified an offensive in the eastern Donbas region and stopped providing gas to Finland, as Polish President Andrzej Duda prepared to address the Ukrainian parliament on Sunday.
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Israel/ OPT: Scrap plans for forced transfer of Palestinian Bedouin village Ras Jrabah in the Negev/Naqab
Israeli authorities must scrap plans to demolish a Palestinian Bedouin village and forcibly transfer its residents to a segregated Bedouin-only town, Amnesty International said today.
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Scientists discover an ancient forest inside a giant sinkhole in China
The sinkhole spans an area nearly three football fields long and is deep enough to hide the Washington Monument. Explorers descended into the pit, where they found ancient trees and other plant life.
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Wingcopter plans to deploy 12,000 drones across Africa
Wingcopter announced a partnership with Continental Drones designed to establish a massive delivery network spanning 49 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sri Lanka defaults on debt for first time in its history
The governor of the country's central bank and two major credit rating agencies said it has defaulted.
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Spain's monkeypox cases tally rises to 21
Regional authorities in Madrid reported 14 confirmed cases of monkeypox on Friday, bringing the total number of cases to 21 in Spain.
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U.S. Congress OKs $40 billion in aid for Ukraine; Russia says it's sent 900 Ukrainian soldiers to prison camp
Russia says it has sent 900 Ukrainian soldiers to a former prison colony in a Russia-controlled part of Donetsk. Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine is likely to continue throughout the summer and possibly beyond, despite signs that parts of the country are returning to some normalcy, Ukraine’s presidential advisor Oleksii Arestovych said, according to NBC News.
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