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Oct 21, 2024
China's military is practicing putting a choke hold on Taiwan - a strategy that defense experts increasingly believe could be an effective alternative to a full-scale invasion.
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Oct 21, 2024
Gazans know what Lebanon is going through, as Israel attacks Hezbollah and as civilians are killed or forced from their homes. But they worry the world's attention has been diverted.
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Oct 21, 2024
Fetullah Gulen, an exiled cleric who died in the United States, was head of a Turkish movement its followers say spreads moderate Islam and Western-style ideas. Formerly an ally of Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan, he was later accused of a failed coup attempt.
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Oct 21, 2024
"We haven't had electricity for three nights," said one Cuban protestor, amid widespread blackouts. Authorities said the outage stemmed from increased demand but residents say this is just the latest issue in a series of problems with electricity.
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Oct 21, 2024
A journalist recounts the experience of his daughter's birth in Sudan amid the country's brutal civil war.
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Oct 19, 2024
Hezbollah didn't claim responsibility for the drone attack, which inflicted no casualties, but said it carried out several rocket attacks on Israel. Israel carried out at least 10 airstrikes on southern Beirut suburbs that are home to Hezbollah's offices.
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Oct 18, 2024
After a year of war in Gaza and the Middle East, the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar rekindled hopes for a grand U.S.-led peace plan. But many obstacles, Israeli and Palestinian, remain.
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Oct 18, 2024
The breakdown in India-Canada ties could force western allies into a difficult balancing act in Asia.
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Oct 18, 2024
A South Korean spy agency said North Korea has already sent 1,500 special forces to Russia and plans to send a total of 12,000 troops. Citing North Korea's outdated equipment and lack of battle experience, experts question how useful a deployment might be.
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Oct 17, 2024
The death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is the heaviest blow the Islamic militant group has endured in a year of war in Gaza. Will it break the stalemate over a cease-fire with Israel?
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Oct 17, 2024
Plummeting birth rates point to more immigration as an economic salve, but political opposition complicates the picture.
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Oct 17, 2024
The war in Gaza, like all surges of violence in the Middle East, has sparked rising antisemitic attacks on Jews in France. They are defending themselves.
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Oct 17, 2024
El Niño brought below-average rainfall to southern Africa, and warming temperatures worsened the situation. The United Nations' food agency said droughts have caused the region's worst hunger crisis in decades.
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Oct 16, 2024
Warfare requires constant adaptation, both offensive and defensive, in tactics and technology. Trends in innovation often point to modern sophistication, but sometimes older and simpler methods work best.
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Oct 15, 2024
As China signals bold moves to revive its economy, all eyes are on its collapsing property market. Can the government restore the confidence of would-be homebuyers?
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Oct 15, 2024
Progress roundup: Resources like water in the desert and gold trapped in e-waste are recovered in new ways. And globally, more children are in school.
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Oct 15, 2024
Canada expelled India's top diplomat and five others over the assassination of a Sikh activist as the latest salvo in an escalating conflict since the 2023 crime. India adamantly denies it was involved, and said it will expel six Canadian diplomats.
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Oct 15, 2024
By law, Norway's universal child care system must be rooted in values that include forgiveness, equality, solidarity, and respect for human dignity.
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Oct 12, 2024
Palestinians in northern Gaza are describing heavy Israeli bombardment in the hours after airstrikes killed at least 22 people. A member of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon was in stable condition after being struck by gunfire in Naqoura.
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Oct 11, 2024
Israel's assault on Hezbollah in Lebanon represents a dramatic broadening of the yearlong war in the Middle East. How Iran's most important regional ally responds will determine the postwar balance of power.
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Oct 10, 2024
To endure war, a society usually needs both unity and trusted leadership. Yet as Israel takes on Hezbollah in Lebanon, the public consensus seems to be based mostly on a blend of confidence and caution - without faith in a government plan.
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Oct 10, 2024
Ukraine's President Volodomyr Zelenskyy fears Western support against Russia is flagging - and it's not just a matter of weaponry.
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Oct 09, 2024
While activists around the world fight for marriage equality, the Philippines is grappling with "separation equality" - whether, and under what conditions, married couples should be allowed to divorce.
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Oct 09, 2024
In Argentina, decades of well-documented crimes and court hearings are being questioned by the nation's new populist, libertarian leadership.
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Oct 08, 2024
Over the past year of war, many critics of the Biden administration say its inability to restrain Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu has damaged U.S. stature and credibility in the Mideast.
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Oct 08, 2024
A French rape victim goes public in a French trial, challenging stereotypes and demanding that rapists, not those raped, should carry the burden of shame.
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Oct 07, 2024
Hamas' attack on Israel a year ago sparked a war that has brought immense destruction and loss of life to Gaza, seriously degraded the militant movement, and sown the seeds for regional conflict. But it portrays its mere survival as a victory.
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Oct 07, 2024
One year after Oct. 7, on-the-ground reporting in Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel finds lives of Palestinians and Israelis forever altered.
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Oct 06, 2024
Memorial events paying tribute to victims of Oct. 7 attacks took place in Paris and London. People took to the streets from Pakistan to Morocco in massive pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
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Oct 03, 2024
Israel and Iran may be on the brink of war, but past experiences of Mideast conflicts show that they rarely go as planned. Could that act as a brake?
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Oct 03, 2024
Many Latin American countries have reached gender parity in politics, but Brazil still lags far behind.
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Oct 03, 2024
Progress roundup: For a greener future, schools in France teach bike riding, Melbourne batteries store renewables, South Africa enacts a climate law.
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Oct 02, 2024
The need to establish deterrence has always risked cycles of escalation. As Israel and Iran trade blows, their competing views of the same events are sending tremors through the Middle East.
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Oct 02, 2024
Ewa Letowska helped Poland create its democracy. Even though the nation is backsliding, she has helped keep it a democracy - one Facebook post at a time.
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Oct 02, 2024
Close to the Russian border, a Ukrainian couple are keeping the local newspaper alive despite shelling, providing a lifeline for the local community.
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Oct 01, 2024
As Israel sends troops into Lebanon, what are their goals and do they have an exit strategy?
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Oct 01, 2024
Japan's new prime minister - its third in four years - offers the ruling Liberal Democratic Party a steady hand in a time of crisis. Snap elections will be a test of how quickly his administration can restore trust.
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Oct 01, 2024
Claudia Sheinbaum will become the first female president of Mexico when she takes her oath of office on Oct. 1. She promises to continue the social policies and constitutional reforms of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but faces many crises.
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Sep 30, 2024
Hezbollah has lost its charismatic leader, who delivered battlefield gains for decades, and absorbed a series of heavy blows from Israel. How ready are its fighters to resist Israel on the ground?
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Sep 30, 2024
Israel has sown disarray in the ranks of the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah by killing its leaders. But how far will the Jewish state press its advantage?
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Sep 30, 2024
India's curb on separatist militancy and other forms of dissent pushes new candidates - and voters - to participate in local elections in Kashmir.
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Sep 30, 2024
A new era of renewable energy begins with the closure of Britain's last coal-fired power plant on Sept. 30. The shutdown makes Britain the first nation from the Group of Seven major economies to phase out coal.
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Sep 30, 2024
Drawing on anxieties about immigration, inflation, and Ukraine, the Freedom Party finished ahead of the governing conservatives on Sept. 29. Rivals say they won't work with party leader Herbert Kickl, who needs a parliamentary majority to become chancellor.
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Sep 28, 2024
Hassan Nasrallah led Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group for more than three decades, transforming it into an influential political force and Iranian proxy. His killing marks a major escalation in the Mideast.
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Sep 26, 2024
Brazil's mega dams rank among the most powerful in the world, but droughts driven by climate change have decreased the dams' output to as low as 3% of their potential. Hydropower accounts for around half the energy Brazilians use.
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Sep 26, 2024
Protests usually express opposition. But in Mexico, where parents of disappeared students have marched for 10 years, grief is stronger than dissent.
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Sep 26, 2024
Progress roundup: Wind patterns are in Frankfurt's city building plan; plus, a new green hydrogen fuel, and three news briefs on justice and equality.
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Sep 25, 2024
In rural India, a goat is a valuable asset. For the women who have been trained to care for them, they're also a path to greater dignity.
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Sep 25, 2024
A group uniting Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel is enjoying unexpected success with its advocacy of a shared home.
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Sep 25, 2024
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who leaves office Sept. 30, is admired for his social programs and breaking down barriers between government and voters. However, he also attacked media, granted military more power, and eliminated regulatory agencies.
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Sep 24, 2024
When a country recognizes the rights of peoples to use their ancestral territory but they live in a different country, it raises tricky questions around access and sovereignty. That's just what's happening in Canada with the Sinixt Confederacy.
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Sep 24, 2024
Israel's unusually heavy bombardment of Hezbollah positions in Lebanon puts militia leader Hassan Nasrallah in an awkward spot.
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Sep 24, 2024
The women-led Firefly Brigade advocates for safer bike lanes and curbing pollution.
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Sep 23, 2024
As violence devastates eastern Congo, communities are coming together to mourn the dead and remember each life cut short by war.
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Sep 22, 2024
Anura Kumara Dissanayake's victory is seen as a rejection of Sri Lanka's old political guard that has been widely accused of pushing the nation toward economic ruin.
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Sep 21, 2024
Israel's military says a senior Hezbollah leader was among those killed in an airstrike on a Beirut apartment block Friday, the deadliest strike on Lebanon's capital since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.
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Sep 20, 2024
Israel hit a Beirut suburb with an airstrike Sept. 20, not long after Hezbollah pounded northern Israel with 140 rockets. This follows Israel striking hundreds of Hezbollah rocket launchers on Sept. 19, and a mass bombing attack against Hezbollah this week.
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Sep 20, 2024
In an age of global migration, Tunisia offers a window into key stressors driving migrants from their homes.
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Sep 19, 2024
The Kremlin has had little success invoking its nuclear arsenal to deter Ukraine and the West from using new tactics to stop Russia's invasion. That may be changing.
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Sep 19, 2024
To placate the far right, European leaders are making their own national policies to curb migrant arrivals, ignoring a Continental agreement.
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Sep 19, 2024
Spawning memes, merch, and crowds at the zoo, baby hippo Moo Deng went viral within weeks of being born. Appropriately, she likes to "deng," or bounce, and her zookeepers post clips of her giddy frolics. Now, the Thai zoo seeks to patent "Moo Deng the hippo."
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Sep 18, 2024
In Lebanon, exploding pagers and booby-trapped walkie-talkies - believed to be set off by Israel - have rattled Hezbollah and captured the world's attention. What do they portend?
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Sep 18, 2024
With fresh faces emerging to challenge the traditional political powerhouses, the region's political dynamics already appear to be changing.
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Sep 18, 2024
Former President Alberto Fujimori had been out of office for more than two decades when he died. But his legacy still divides Peru today.
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Sep 18, 2024
The economy has slightly recovered during current President Ranil Wickremesinghe's two-year reign, but many blame his party for the 2022 economic collapse. With 38 candidates running for office, Sri Lankans will head to the polls on Sept. 21.
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Sep 17, 2024
The Paris Olympics are over, but many in the city are still basking in the glow - including the mayor, who wants to keep the Olympic rings mounted on the Eiffel Tower indefinitely.
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Sep 17, 2024
Pakistan's democracy is at an unprecedented crossroads as the government, army, and judiciary decide whether to try Imran Khan in a military court.
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Sep 17, 2024
In the largest security breach since October 2023, handheld Hezbollah pagers exploded across Lebanon and Syria, wounding more than 2,750 people on Sept. 17. Explosions lasted for about an hour after detonation.
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Sep 16, 2024
Progress roundup: New choices emerge for African animation fans, German apartment renters who want solar panels, and arts groups facing rising costs.
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Sep 16, 2024
Tango may conjure up images of tight suits and stiletto heels, but an alternative approach to Argentina's national cultural icon could change that.
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Sep 16, 2024
Three American travelers, including two 21-year-olds from Utah, face the death penalty for participating in a failed coup against Congo's president. One of the Americans is the son of the coup's leader, who was killed during the assault.
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Sep 13, 2024
Anti-immigration rhetoric filled European political discourse this summer and far-right parties encouraging these policies show gains at the polls. Yet, only 115,000 unauthorized migrants have arrived so far this year, compared to more than 1 million in 2015.
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Sep 13, 2024
In China, the number of people over the age of 60 will grow from 300 million to 400 million by 2035, experts project. That's larger than the entire U.S. population. Officials are raising the retirement age to expand the workforce and fund pensions.
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Sep 13, 2024
The eastern Ukraine city of Pokrovsk is emptying as citizens evacuate in the face of a swift Russian advance.
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Sep 12, 2024
Ukraine's Azov Brigade has been much maligned for a Nazi-tainted past. But today its renowned fighters proudly and emphatically assert their modern self-definition as nationalists with a broad appeal.
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Sep 12, 2024
Iran's dispatch of missiles to Russia could backfire if the shipment provokes Washington into letting Ukraine aim U.S.-made missiles deep into Russia.
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Sep 12, 2024
Progress roundup: Hunger declines in Latin America. And in Namibia, innovative management of an invasive species is helping to boost housing stocks.
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Sep 12, 2024
Ellen Duysen educates farmers in seven states across the Midwest and the Great Plains to inspire them to embrace a "culture of safety."
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Sep 11, 2024
Access to education looks different depending on the community. In the hilly pastures of Kashmir, mobile schools meet little shepherds where they are.
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Sep 11, 2024
The German government enacted border closures for six months. The aim is to limit irregular migration and protect the nation from "the acute dangers posed by Islamist terrorism and serious crime," says the Interior Minister. Free travel is integral to the EU.
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Sep 11, 2024
Mexico's Senate voted on Sept. 10 to have all judges elected by popular vote, a change critics fear will threaten democracy. Hundreds of protestors pushed their way into the chamber, yelling, "The judiciary isn't going to fall."
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Sep 10, 2024
Can reason overcome emotion during a national emergency? Warnings from Israel's security and judicial establishments that Jewish extremists are causing the country great harm are struggling to be heard amid a barrage of heartbreaking news.
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Sep 10, 2024
Sweden's public health agency recommended children under 2 should not use digital screens. Research finding poorer sleep, depression, and developmental delays among 1-year-olds spurred the advisory.
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Sep 10, 2024
First responders dug through sand and rubble with garden tools and bare hands early on Sept. 10. Palestinian officials say the blast killed 19 and wounded 60, while Israel disputes the toll.
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Sep 10, 2024
Eldest daughters - or átes in Filipino - face unique social and family pressures, and take on more domestic responsibilities than their siblings. Some have found comfort and community online.
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Sep 09, 2024
Drawing on lessons from past epidemics like HIV and COVID-19, communities in East Africa are fighting stigma around mpox to stop the disease's spread.
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Sep 09, 2024
The end of the Olympics also closed out the feel-good limbo that had frozen French politics. Now President Emmanuel Macron and his newly chosen prime minister will have to figure out how to govern a France that looks on the verge of ungovernability.
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Sep 09, 2024
History will judge whether Ukraine's bold incursion into Russian territory will pay off in military terms, but it has cheered the public mood.
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Sep 09, 2024
Edmundo González, considered by several foreign governments to be the winner of the July presidential election, landed in Madrid Sept. 8. There, he joins at least four former presidential hopefuls who are victims of Nicolás Maduro's brutal rule.
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Sep 09, 2024
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune jointly issued a statement alongside his two main opponents criticizing the country's election chairman. His victory, totaling 94.7% of the vote, contradicted initial turnout figures and local tallies.
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Sep 06, 2024
Despite efforts to crack down on immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, human smugglers adapt quickly to new laws and regulations in how they market their "services" to desperate migrants. Human trafficking is on the rise. International collaboration is key to halting it.
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Sep 06, 2024
A maternity ward in eastern Congo is a testament to both the trauma of war and how, in spite of it, life carries stubbornly on.
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Sep 06, 2024
The last aging captive elephant in South Africa showed signs of deep unhappiness after his partner died in 2020. Veterinarian Amir Khalil and his team, experts at coaxing elephants, were called to move 4-ton Charley to a wild elephant reserve.
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Sep 06, 2024
After Brazil's Supreme Court's decision to suspend X - with a hefty fine for those who evade the ban - users are moving to Bluesky or Threads. While X was not the largest platform in Brazil, it played an outsized role in politics, academia, and journalism.
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Sep 05, 2024
When governments hesitate to regulate social media giants for free speech reasons, the courts have shown a path to tighter control - criminal law.
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Sep 05, 2024
Barcelona has closed nine-block chunks of the city to traffic and transformed them into green havens, decorating the newly pedestrianized streets.
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Sep 05, 2024
Iraqi women and activists are protesting lawmakers who propose giving religious authorities more power over family law. The changes could allow conservative clerics to approve marriages of girls as young as 9.
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Sep 04, 2024
Deep into the war, Ukraine's power grid is still a prime Russian target. And Ukrainians, from individual families to the officials in charge of keeping the lights on, are finding new ways to cope.
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Sep 04, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy seeks "new energy" by way of a major government reshuffle. The resignation of six prominent ministers, including the foreign minister and a deputy prime minister, comes at a pivotal moment in the war against Russia.
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Sep 04, 2024
The blaze that engulfed the Grenfell Tower in west London was the deadliest fire on British soil since World War II. The years-long investigation published this week found the 72 deaths were all avoidable.
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