Key developments and global perspectives that matter.
Key developments and global perspectives that matter.
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Flooding in this historic city of Venice has reached catastrophic levels this week, and some experts are worried it could lead to further sinking. Per BBC News, the local tide monitoring center claims that the waters in Venice have peaked at 1.87m (6ft). The only time that the tide has…
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A note left by a firefighter to the man whose house he saved has gone viral on social media this week after he drank the milk in his fridge. The image of the note was first shared on Facebook by a man named Paul Sefky, returned to his property in…
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A gender-reveal stunt has inadvertently led to disaster this week, after a light aircraft crashed to the ground in Texas, causing minor injuries to the two passengers. Pilot Raj Horan was flying the small yellow plane over the town of Turkey on the 7th of September. His intention was to…
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The police officer involved in the arrest of the son of notorious drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman has been assassinated in a parking lot after being shot 150 times, the Mirror reports. The 30-year-old officer, named by police only as Eduardo N was killed on Wednesday by gunmen in…
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A company in Tel Aviv has started using a flashing image of Swedish activist Greta Thunberg to shame employees into forgoing plastic, and the images of this offbeat method have now gone viral on social media. The trend has since been dubbed "Greta shaming", and it involves images of the…
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A Chinese pilot has been banned from flying for life after a photograph of a female passenger in the cockpit of a plane went viral. The incident is said to have taken place on January 4, on board an Air Guilin flight from Guilin City to Yangzhou City, according to…
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Leaked footage shows the shocking moment an Israeli policewoman, who has since been fired, shot a Palestinian man in the back "for fun", the Guardian reports. The horrifying ordeal from over a year ago was recently released as a part of a video broadcast by Israel’s Channel 13 news agency.…
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Eleven thousand scientists in 153 countries have issued a stark warning about the climate crisis, declaring a global climate emergency, the Independent reports. They warn that "untold human suffering" is inevitable unless substantial changes are made to our way of life in terms of how it impacts the environment. The…
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Three innocent US women and six children have allegedly been slaughtered by a drug cartel while traveling to Mexico for a wedding, the New York Post has reported. The attack was a highway ambush in the Mexican border state of Sonora on Monday, November 4, in the town of Bavispe,…
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Microsoft Japan has tested a four-day workweek and discovered that it has boosted employee productivity. The tech company recorded an almost 40 per cent increase in productivity after cutting working hours in a bid to promote a healthier work-life balance. The Work Life Choice Challenge initiative was started back in…
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A 71-year-old retired barber tragically lost his life after spending three weeks stuck inside a stairwell, an Australian inquest has heard. As reported by news.com.au, Bernard Gore, who had been making a shopping trip to Sydney’s enormous Westfield Bondi Junction mall with his family, went missing on January 6th, 2017,…
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A new audit has found that Coca-Cola is the biggest polluter in the world. It was conducted by the global movement Break Free From Plastics, which obtained its findings from the work of 72,000 volunteers who combed beaches, waterways and streets for litter on a single day in September this…
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A court in Barcelona has acquitted five men over the rape of a 14-year-old girl because she was unconscious, and therefore no "violence or intimidation" took place, resulting in a lesser charge of sexual abuse. CNN has reported how, under Spanish law, a sexual attack can only be classified as…
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The shocking moment a teenager was thrown to the ground in Iran because she wasn't wearing a hijab has been caught on camera. The girl was walking unveiled through Shahr-e-Rey, near the south of Tehran, when she was stopped by a male officer. She kept on walking as the officer…
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A Muslim woman was reportedly refused entry into a nightclub in Australia after she refused to remove her hijab when a bouncer told her to. Twenty-one-year-old Soaliha Iqbal was barred from entering the Paragon Hotel by a bouncer there, who reportedly withheld her ID before confronting her about the hijab.…
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Earlier this month, heavily armed soldiers in Mexico carrying out a raid on a property where they were able to arrest the son of notorious drug kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, Ovidio Guzman. Then the young cartel leader, believed to be 27 years old, can be seeing coming out of…
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Authorities have said that the body of Amelia Bambridge, the 21-year-old British backpacker who went missing more than a week go, has been discovered more than 30 miles from where she disappeared. The Mirror reports that her body was found in the sea near the Thai-Cambodian border, and has now…
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Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg has refused the offer of a $50,000 environmental award prize over her campaigning. The 16-year-old was recently honored by the Nordic Council, a regional body for inter-parliamentary cooperation, at a ceremony in Stockholm. However, despite saying the offer was a "great honour", Thunberg opted…
