Washington: The United States on Tuesday voiced alarm over Ethiopia's targeting of journalists in a sweep of arrests in the northern Amhara region. State Department spokesman Ned Price saluted a continued cease-fire and progress in sending humanitarian aid into the war-battered north but called...
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Two years on from his death, it’s worth considering the wealth and success he might have had in a different world The murder of George Floyd two years ago prompted a global awakening about the pervasiveness of racism, as millions of people, from Toronto to Tokyo to Tottenham, joined together to take...
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Taylor Swift has said that she is “filled with rage and grief” following a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas which left 19 young children and two adults dead. An 18-year-old gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School, which teaches children aged seven to 10,...
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UVALDE (TEXAS): A gunman murdered 19 children and two teachers in the deadliest U.S. school shooting for nearly a decade, prompting President Joe Biden to urge Americans to confront the country's gun lobby and pressure Congress to tighten gun laws. Authorities said Salvador Ramos, 18, on...
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SAO PAULO, May 24 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree on Tuesday to step up fines for environmental crimes, according to the official government gazette, in a move to allow more aggressive protection of the Amazon rainforest. Reuters exclusively reported earlier in the day...
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MEXICO CITY — Mexican experts said Monday that 35% more monarch butterflies arrived this year to spend the winter in the country’s mountaintop forests, compared with the previous season. Experts say the increase may reflect the butterflies’ ability to adapt to more extreme bouts of heat...
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