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Baltimore was sleeping when the fully laden cargo ship, adrift and without power, slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, bringing it down in seconds. Had the disaster taken place during the daytime, hundreds of cars and trucks could have been on the bridge over a channel leading to one of the...
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France to sue student it says falsely accused principal of forcibly removing headscarf
A French high school student is being sued by the government for falsely accusing her former principal of assaulting her after he made her remove her headscarf on school premises, the country’s prime minister said Wednesday. French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said the government would “always stand...
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Philippines’s Marcos promises measures after China’s ‘dangerous attacks’
President Ferdinand Marcos says the Philippines will take countermeasures against China after confrontations in the South China Sea last week injured Filipino soldiers and damaged vessels. “We seek no conflict with any nation, more so nations that purport and claim to be our friends but we will not...
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Mothers fight to protect daughters as The Gambia considers unbanning FGM
*Names changed to maintain privacy. Banjul, The GambiaFatou* was barely a year old when she underwent female circumcision, the practice also called female genital mutilation that rights groups condemn as a form of abuse.Keep reading list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4The Gambia votes to reverse landmark...
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Colombia expels Argentina’s diplomats after Milei calls Petro ‘terrorist’
Colombia has ordered the expulsion of Argentinian diplomats to the Andean nation, with the Colombian foreign ministry citing “denigrating” comments by Argentinian President Javier Milei about Colombian President Gustavo Petro. In a statement published on Wednesday, the ministry said “the Argentinian...
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Israel seeks new date for cancelled US meeting on Rafah offensive plans
Israel has asked the United States to reschedule a meeting to discuss its military operation in Gaza’s Rafah days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abruptly cancelled a planned visit to Washington. White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre on Wednesday told reporters that “we’re now working...
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US journalist marks a year in Russian prison as courts keep extending his time behind bars
For Evan Gershkovich, the dozen appearances in Moscow's courts over the past year have fallen into a pattern. Guards take the American journalist from the notorious Lefortovo Prison in a van for the short drive to the courthouse. He’s led in handcuffs to a defendants’ cage in front of a judge for...
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TikTok: The Clock Is Running Out
By Mel Gurtov March 27, 2024 Mel Gurtov A National Security Threat? The Chinese-owned TikTok has been under attack throughout the last two US administrations, on the argument that data collection of American users would threaten national security. I've yet to see a persuasive argument that it does,...
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Human rights crisis in El Salvador ‘deepening’: Amnesty
As El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele embarks on his second term in office, an international rights group has warned that his war on gangs has created a spiralling human rights crisis. As of February 2024, Bukele’s draconian two-year campaign, which has seen the authorities detain about 78,000...
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The world wastes more than 1 billion meals every single day, UN report finds
More than 1 billion meals are wasted across the world each day while nearly 800 million people go hungry, a new United Nations report has found. The world wasted 1.05 billion metric tons of food in 2022, meaning about a fifth of the food available to people was squandered by households, restaurants...
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