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Plastic Bag Found at the Bottom of World’s Deepest Ocean Trench
Even one of the most remote places on Earth couldn’t hide from the scourge of plastic trash.
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Brazil's top court boosts indigenous rights in landmark ruling
The Supreme Court sets a precedent for land claims by restoring territory to the Xokleng people.
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It's 2030, and digital wallets have replaced every card in our purses and pockets
OpenWallet, now joined by Microsoft, looks to the near future when digital wallets replace traditional wallets in the same way debit cards replaced checkbooks.
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Iraq PM invited to meet with US President Biden at White House
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in New York on Monday and received an invitation from U.S. President Joe Biden to visit the White House soon, a State Department spokesperson said.
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Drone service Wing stops delivering food in Canberra
Global drone delivery company Wing is shifting to be based out of shopping centres for easier access to deliverable goods and says so far it hasn't been able to find a suitable shopping centre in Canberra.
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Quest to bring priest charged with torture in Argentina to justice
Father Franco Reverberi is wanted in Argentina on charges of murder and torture under military rule.
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Egypt's August headline inflation jumps to a record 37.4%
Egypt's annual urban consumer price inflation rate surged to a higher-than-expected record 37.4% in August from 36.5% in July, data from the country's statistics agency CAPMAS showed on Sunday.
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EU unveils package of laws to curb power of big tech firms
‘Revolutionary’ Digital Markets Act aims to allow more competition and let consumers delete preloaded phone apps
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In the face of climate change and food insecurity, New Zealand considers lab-grown fruit
Scientists will attempt to create fruit without the parts that are normally discarded like the core of an apple or orange pith
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Latvia’s politicians to take responsibility for unborn children | The Baltic Word
According to the latest population projections issued by Eurostat, the EU’s population will decrease by 6% between 1 January 2022 and 1 January 2100, equivalent to 27.3 million fewer people. But for Latvia the demographic decline is predicted to be much steeper, with the country's population dropping below 1.5 million by 2045 and continuing to
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Facebook is getting rid of the News tab in Europe
Meta plans to deprecate the Facebook News tab in early December for users in the U.K., France and Germany.
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UN nuclear watchdog report seen by AP says Iran slows its enrichment of near-weapons-grade uranium
A U.N. reports shows that Iran has slowed the pace at which it is enriching uranium to nearly weapons-grade levels.
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NASA officials sound alarm over future of the Deep Space Network
"I'm not sure who thought it was a good idea to put up CubeSats with Artemis I."
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Modi-linked Adani family secretly invested in own shares, documents suggest
Offshore records suggest associates of wealthy Indian family spent years acquiring stock during rise of founder to be worth $120bn
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Chinese people are living two years longer thanks to 'war on pollution,' report says
Ten years ago, China’s capital was often covered in dense yellow and gray smog, so thick it shrouded nearly everything from view.
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Five million bees escape after crates of hives fall off truck in Canada
Beekeepers at site near Toronto in Ontario eventually managed to recapture most of the insects, although some remained on the loose
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Meta rejects own board’s request to suspend account of Cambodian strongman
Meta’s Oversight Board recommended suspending Cambodian leader Hun Sen’s Facebook account after he posted a video advocating violence.
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India's moon rover confirms sulfur and detects several other elements near the lunar south pole
India’s moon rover has confirmed the presence of sulfur and detected several other elements on the surface near the lunar south pole a week after the country’s historic moon landing.
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New research finds that fully remote workers are less productive than their in-office counterparts
A new study found that a group of fully remote data-entry workers in India were 18% less productive than those that worked in the office.
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Pope says 'backward' U.S. conservatives have replaced faith with ideology
Pope Francis has blasted the “backwardness” of some conservatives in the U.S. Catholic Church. He says they have replaced faith with ideology and that a correct understanding of Catholic doctrine allows for change over time.
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