ALL AROUND THE NEWS: February 2021

Sunday, February 28, 2021

Fossil fuel cars make 'hundreds of times' more waste than electric cars

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China appears to be behind power blackout in Mumbai around time of border dispute in October 2020

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Hawaii likely to make hikers pay for their rescue if they disobey danger signs

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China and India to send vaccines to Palestinians

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‘Fight for freedom’: Crowd risks China’s ire outside Hong Kong subversion hearing of 47 activists

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Mexico's coronavirus czar in hospital with COVID-19, as death toll nears 186,000

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India Prime Minister Modi takes locally invented vaccine (Covaxin) to encourage citizens to participate in the vaccination drive. India has approved both Aztrazeneca (known as Covishield) by Oxford and Covaxin by Bharath Biotech jabs.

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World condemns Myanmar crackdown as 18 peaceful protesters killed

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‘Millions of people’s data is at risk’ — Amazon insiders sound alarm over security Whistleblowers say they were forced out after flagging problems with e-commerce giant’s data security and compliance.

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Mexico's president expected to ask Biden to share U.S. vaccines, say sources

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Francis prepares first-ever papal visit to Iraq

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Three names mysteriously removed from Khashoggi intelligence report after initial publication

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India has successfully launched Amazon 1, the first observation satellite fully designed, manufactured and operated by Brazil. The satellite will capture high-res images to assist Brazil in Earth observation programs, including deforestation in the Amazon.

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Israel authorizes plan to vaccinate over 120,000 Palestinian workers

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B.C. First Nation devastated after second member dies by police in less than a year

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"They Started Burning the Homes": Ethiopians Say Their Towns Are Being Razed In Ethnic Cleansing Campaign - “They shot at everyone, they even killed priests who were hiding in the church.”, “Many of them were burnt alive in their homes.”

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National security law: 47 Hong Kong opposition activists charged with conspiring to subvert state power

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Hong Kong charges 47 activists in largest use yet of new security law

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Rooster fitted with blade for cockfight kills its owner in India

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Furious crowd forces armed police officers to release men arrested for kissing on a beach in Mexico

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Saturday, February 27, 2021

India launches Brazil's Amazonia-1 Earth observation satellite and 18 others into orbit

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One reported dead, many hurt as Myanmar police fire at protesters | Myanmar News

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Electricity needed to mine bitcoin is more than used by 'entire countries'

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Hundreds of Protesters, 23 arrests, and three police officers injured in Ireland clash with police in anti-lockdown demonstration

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China's truthtellers: The people who shared details of the Covid-19 pandemic that Beijing left out

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Historical rape claim against current minister a 'test' for PM, Labor leader Albanese says, "Scott Morrison must satisfy himself ‘the current make-up of the cabinet can continue’"

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Man killed by own Rooster during a cockfight, be being impaled in the groin by a knife attached to its feet

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Myanmar's UN ambassador fired after anti-coup speech, as military intensifies crackdown on protesters

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Police chief in discrimination case claims ‘homo’ was short for homo sapien

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Amazon rainforest plots sold via Facebook Marketplace ads: Parts of Brazil's Amazon rainforest are being illegally sold on Facebook, the BBC has discovered.

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Prisons should trial free cannabis, says UK's former chief drug adviser

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A hair color code is being strictly enforced half of all senior high schools operated by the Tokyo municipal government. Students who come to class with wavy hair or locks that are not uniformly black are required to submit a document signed by their guardians stating that it is their natural look

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See images of a secretive Israeli nuclear facility at the center of the nation’s undeclared atomic weapons program

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A massive prison break in Haiti has resulted in the escape of hundreds of inmates and the deaths of at least 25 people, including the prison's director and a notorious Haitian gang leader named Arnel Joseph.

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Nearly 200 scholars back UK lecturer who called Jewish students Israel ‘pawns’

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Biden administration to make announcement about Saudi Arabia Monday as White House reviews ties

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First vaccine to fully immunize against malaria builds on pandemic-driven RNA tech

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FDA Authorizes Johnson & Johnson's One-Shot COVID-19 Vaccine

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Judge in Google case disturbed that 'incognito' users are tracked

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Auckland, New Zealand returning to seven-day lockdown after a mystery coronavirus case was recorded

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‘We Are Hitler’s People, Then and Now:’ Violent Hatred of Jews Exposed Among Students at Elite German University Fraternity

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New Zealand's largest city Auckland back to lockdown after COVID-19 case

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Australia accused of 'shamefully' holding back global action on climate change

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Refugee who set herself on fire in Greece is charged with arson

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Victoria bans single-use plastics by 2023 to slash amount going to landfill

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Polish historian resigns state position over 2007 photos of him performing Nazi salute - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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Friday, February 26, 2021

The most expensive dam in Canadian history: cost of B.C.’s Site C dam balloons to $16 billion

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A giant iceberg, larger than the size of most European cities, has broken away from Antarctica, near a British research station. The iceberg measuring 1,270 square kilometers (490 square miles) came off the 150-meter-thick Brunt Ice Shelf in a process called "calving"

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Taiwan urges people to eat more pineapples after China bans imports amid campaign of 'intimidation'

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317 girls abducted from Nigerian school. Parents of kidnapped Nigerian girls tried to pull them out of school before they were taken

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317 Nigerian Schoolgirls Abducted By Gunmen In Overnight Raid : NPR

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China Is No. 1 Trade Partner Again Thanks To (Wait For It) U.S. Exports

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U.N. Report: World Has Ten Months To Take Action on Climate

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Gulf Stream is weakest it's been in more than 1,000 years, study says

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“Mother fucker who the fuck do you think you’re talking to!” The words of Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes while speaking to PM Trudeau over the phone to give her resignation. This response to his attempt to delay her resignation while explaining the gratitude she should have towards him

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U.S. diplomats forced by China to undergo anal swab testing for Covid-19 after Biden raised "fundamental concerns" about Beijing's "coercive and unfair economic practices and human rights abuses in Xinjiang."

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Harvard professor faces backlash from WWII sex slavery survivor and historians after calling 'comfort women' prostitutes

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Norwegian football club Tromsø IL becomes the first team to promote a boycott of Qatar 2022

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Eritrean troops killed hundreds of civilians in Ethiopia’s Tigray, Amnesty International says

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I left Britain to escape toxic press, Prince Harry says

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Schoolgirl who joined ISIS cannot return to U.K., court says

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Biden raises human rights in call with Saudi King Salman

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Don't be selfish - get a COVID shot, says UK's Queen Elizabeth

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BBC News - Shamima Begum not allowed to return to the UK

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Death of diesel looms as carmakers accelerate to electric future - The world’s biggest diesel engine factory in Tremery, eastern France, is undergoing a radical overhaul - it’s switching to make electric motors.

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U.S. military helicopters have been spotted repeatedly flying at low altitudes of 300 meters or less between Tokyo skyscrapers, contravening aviation regulations for Japanese aircraft

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ISIS bride Shamima Begum not allowed to return to UK , Supreme Court rules

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Amazon is putting cameras in its delivery vans and some drivers aren't happy

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Armenian Prime Minister says he is facing an attempted 'military coup' after army demands his resignation

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Thursday, February 25, 2021

'This is historic': Malaysian man wins appeal against Islamic gay sex charge

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UN calls on Israel to immediately stop demolishing Palestinian homes, buildings in West Bank

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Pakistan MP Who is in His Late Fifties, Marries 14-Year-Old Baloch Girl; Police Launch Probe

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‘You preyed upon a young girl’: Uber driver jailed for five years after raping teenage passenger in Australia

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Monarch butterflies down 26% in Mexico wintering grounds

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Saudi Crown Prince Implicated in Khashoggi Murder, U.S. Finds

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Pakistan, India Agree to Immediate Ceasefire, Restoring 2003 Truce

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Biden Launches Airstrike Against Iran-Backed Militia In Syria

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Monarch butterflies down 26% in Mexico wintering grounds

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Alexei Navalny: Jailed Putin Critic 'Moved Out of Moscow Prison' - "Navalny lawyer Vadim Kobzev said he had arrived at the remand prison to meet his client only to be told that he was no longer there."

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WHO investigators looking into origins of coronavirus in China have discovered signs the outbreak in China was much wider in Wuhan in December 2019 than previously thought

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United States carries out airstrike against Iranian-backed militia target in Syria - officials

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Malaysian wins challenge against Islamic law banning gay sex

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German forest decline hits record levels: Bark beetles are the main driver of spruce tree deaths in the country. But this was exacerbated by a dry summer

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Wednesday, February 24, 2021

pfizer-BionTech vaccine is 94% effective, study of 1.2m people in Israel finds

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First successful birth of critically endangered Malayan tiger cubs at Wildlife Reserves Singapore in 23 years

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Australian cannabis consumption increases 25% in 5 months valuing the industry at $18.5 billion

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Sailor survives for 14 hours in Pacific Ocean by clinging to abandoned buoy

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Yemen Faces World's Worst Famine in Decades, Warns U.N.

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Bernie Sanders Slams Israel for Sending COVID Vaccines Abroad While Palestinians 'Still Waiting'

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The more data we get, the more it seems vaccinated people aren't spreading the coronavirus

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Facebook bans Myanmar military from its platforms with immediate effect

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New public report to blame Saudi crown prince for 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi

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Mexico's Decision to Ban Glyphosate Has Rocked the Agribusiness World

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Woman awarded $7,700 for five years of housework in China divorce ruling | Case is believed to be the first to set a monetary value on housework since the implementation of a new civil code

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Two men have been charged in Malta with providing the bomb that killed anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Described as a "one-woman WikiLeaks" who exposed cronyism and sleaze within Malta's political and business elite

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John Bolton says Trump invited Kim Jong Un on Air Force One as he thought it'd be "really cool"

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2 dead after Philippine Police and Drug Enforcement Agents shoot at each other after undercover narcotics operation

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Ramen-Loving Researcher Discovers that Tonkotsu Absorbs Radiation

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EU-US data flows could face 'massive disruption' due to the EU court ruling last July over concerns the U.S. surveillance regime might not respect the privacy rights of citizens in the bloc

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Amnesty strips Alexei Navalny of 'prisoner of conscience' status Rights group has been under pressure to condemn past statements by Kremlin critic

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Husband must pay wife $US7700 for years of housework, Chinese court rules

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Trash fills Bosnia river faster than workers can pull it out

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Boris Johnson 'a liar' who will blame Brexit costs on Covid, says diplomat. Sylvie Bermann, former French ambassador, puts PM’s handling of pandemic alongside Donald Trump’s.

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Canadian social democratic opposition calls out Liberal party for voting to kill universal prescription drug coverage bill

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Internet sleuths have cracked the code hidden in NASA's Perseverance parachute

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German court convicts radical imam of membership in IS

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China did 'little' to hunt for Covid origins in early months, says WHO document

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German court sentences former Syrian secret police agent to prison for 'aiding and abetting crimes against humanity'. The first such case worldwide.

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Hyundai Motor to replace battery systems in $900 million electric car recall

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US and allies to build 'China-free' tech supply chain

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Iranian woman who suffered fatal heart attack on the way to gallows after watching 16 others executed was hanged anyway.

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Man dies after police kneel on his neck for nearly 5 minutes, family says in wrongful death claim

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Anti-Asian hate crimes up 717% in Canada

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Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Iranian officials should be charged over shooting down of Ukrainian plane, UN expert says

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In Canadian first, Quebec whitewater river declared legal 'person' with its own rights

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Iran stops sharing nuclear site footage as uranium stockpile grows

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Justin Trudeau says US leadership has been 'sorely missed' during first meeting with Biden

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Israel Gives Vaccine to Far-Off Allies, as Palestinians Wait - The donations will go to nations like the Czech Republic and Honduras that pledged to move diplomats to Jerusalem. Critics say Israel has an obligation to inoculate Palestinians under its occupation.

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A German court will hand down a historic verdict on Wednesday in the first court case worldwide over state-sponsored torture by the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

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More than 50 inmates killed in riots sparked by rival gangs at three prisons in Ecuador

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Colombia’s Military Killed Three Times More Civilians During FARC War Than Previously Reported

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A group of 28 pilot whales were successfully refloated at a notorious New Zealand beach where more than a dozen of the marine mammals died this week. The long-finned pilot whales, which had re-stranded themselves once before, appeared to have finally swum out to sea

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‘Human beings are not bartering chips’: Biden calls for China to release 2 Michaels

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UN report says Erik Prince violated arms embargo against Libya: report

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Spotify: Price rise 'could push users into piracy'

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NASA rover beams back first sounds ever recorded from the surface of Mars

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12 Japanese firms will end business deals involving Uighur forced labor

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Covid-19 takes the life of the last male from Brazil’s indigenous Juma tribe

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Brave and defiant Ghanaian journalist proudly comes out as gay on live TV

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Revealed: 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar as it gears up for World Cup

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Gender-reveal device explosion kills father-to-be

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Population crisis in South Korea as young couples choose not to have babies

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Canada parliament declares China treatment of Uighurs genocide

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Canada calls China's treatment of Uighurs 'genocide' over Trudeau's objections

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‘800 people’ killed in massacre at Ethiopia’s Ark of the Covenant

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Pakistan MP Maulana Salahuddin Ayubi marries 14-year-old girl from Balochistan; police launch probe

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Navy Veteran Dies After Police Allegedly Kneel on His Neck During Mental Health Crisis

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People with extremist views less able to do complex mental tasks, research suggests.

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Monday, February 22, 2021

Revealed: 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar as it gears up for World Cup | Global development

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The extinct Tasmanian tiger may have been spotted in the wilds of Australia

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In landmark decision, the European Union has declared that mealworms are ‘safe to eat’ and hence a sustainable source of protein that can be used to replace meat within a diet.

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If you die from the COVID-19 vaccine in Japan, the government will give your family over 44M yen. ($420,000 USD)

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North Korea’s economy is ravaged by sanctions and pandemic isolation. Kim is lashing out.

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U.S. puts sanctions on two Myanmar generals over coup: Treasury Department

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Martian rover sends back ‘overwhelming’ video, audio from the Red Planet

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Seafood firm loses $20m vessel after trawling in protected area.

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Canada-U.S. border closed to non-essential travel until at least March 21

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NZ dollar hits 34-month high, as New Zealand becomes the first developed country with investment-grade debt to receive a credit rating upgrade since COVID-19 hit

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WhatsApp to switch off messages for all who reject new terms

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Vote passes recognizing China’s treatment of Uighurs as genocide - National

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Lead Levels in Two-Year-Old Children at ‘10 Year High’ in South Australian Smelter City

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Public Health Scotland found by the fourth week after the first dose hospitalisations were reduced by 85% and 94% for the Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs respectively

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Germany urges EU to prepare sanctions on Russia over Navalny

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Italian ambassador to DR Congo killed in UN convoy attack

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White supremacy a 'transnational threat', U.N. chief warns

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CONGO, Italian ambassador killed along with one carabineer of his security during an armed assault to an ONU convoy

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Palestinian child says he was raped by Israeli interrogator

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Sunday, February 21, 2021

Students in France wait for food handouts as COVID-19 destroys part-time jobs

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Texas freeze led to release of tons of air pollutants as refineries shut

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Myanmar police open fire on protesters in Mandalay leaving at least two dead, say reports

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The evidence of Syrian President Bashar Assad and his regime's legacy of war crimes

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Israel demolishes about 90 Palestinian structures, displaces 146 Palestinians in 2 weeks: UN

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'Name it for what it is': MPs implore PM to label China's treatment of Uighurs a genocide

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