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[Link] Maya Assad's family has been stateless for generations, but that could soon change
Read: 10/4/2022 www.abc.net.au
For more than a year the engineer and her businessman husband had been jobless, as the economy in the country in which she was born and raised, Lebanon, imploded.
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[Link] Great Barrier Reef hit with widespread and severe bleaching event
Read: 18/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
The Great Barrier Reef is being hit with a widespread and severe bleaching event, just three days before a United Nations delegation is due to arrive to assess the health of the world heritage area.
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[Link] The Taliban Have Wished Women a Happy International Women’s Day
Read: 9/3/2022 www.vice.com
The Taliban have wished women across the world a happy International Women’s Day, despite spending the last 6 months in power repressing Afghan women and crushing any dissent.
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[Link] Morrison government asks Facebook, Twitter and Google to block Russian state media ‘disinformation’
Read: 3/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
The Australian government has asked Facebook, Twitter, Google and other digital platforms to block content generated by Russian state media to curb “disinformation in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine”.
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[Link] Dozens have finally been sentenced over the 2017 murders of two UN investigators in the Congo
Read: 30/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
About 50 people have been sentenced to death, many in absentia, in Democratic Republic of Congo in connection with the murders of UN experts Zaida Catalan and Michael Sharp in 2017, according to a defence lawyer in the case.
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[Link] Clash with separatist rebels sees death of three Indonesian soldiers in Papua
Read: 28/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
Separatist rebels have killed three Indonesian soldiers and critically injured another during an attack on a military post in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua.
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[Link] The deadly new risk Afghan women face: It starts with a strange phone call and can end with murder
Read: 22/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Her body was found riddled with bullets alongside three other women who had also been killed. Ms Ayoubi is a journalist and activist who left Afghanistan over concerns for her own safety.
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[Link] Elon Musk Tweets an Ancient Chinese Poem. Here’s What It Means.
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
The world’s richest man, with $335 billion in wealth and caught up in Twitter spats, now wants some peace, at least according to an 1,800-year-old Chinese poem he just shared.
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[Link] Myanmar military says it will release 5,600 anti-coup prisoners
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Myanmar’s military has announced plans to release more than 5,000 prisoners, days after the junta chief was blocked from attending an upcoming regional summit over his failure to commit to de-escalating the country’s crisis.
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[Link] Colin Powell’s UN speech: a decisive moment in undermining US credibility
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Colin Powell will be most remembered for the act he most regretted, his 2003 presentation to the UN security council laying out US evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, which turned out not to exist.
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[Link] UN food summit will be ‘elitist’ and ‘pro-corporate’, says special rapporteur
Read: 23/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
The UN global food summit is “elitist and regressive” and has failed in its goal of being a “people’s summit”, according to the special rapporteur on food rights.
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[Link] Brazil’s Health Minister Flipped Off New York Protesters—Then Tested Positive for COVID
Read: 22/9/2021 www.vice.com
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Marcelo Queiroga is the fourth health minister to deal with the coronavirus pandemic in Brazil and, some said, the most serious. But his behavior on a trip to New York this week was anything but serious.
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[Link] Belarus Olympian safe in Tokyo hotel after refusing 'forced' flight home
Read: 5/8/2021 www.bbc.com
A Belarusian Olympian who refused her team's order to fly home early is safe after seeking protection from Japanese police, Games officials have said.They say sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, 24, spent the night in a hotel at Tokyo's Haneda airport.
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[Link] Myanmar’s UN envoy accuses military junta of township massacre
Read: 5/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Myanmar’s ambassador to the United Nations, who has refused to leave his post despite being fired by the junta after the February coup, has alerted the world body to a “reported massacre” by the military.
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