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Brazil's African origin faiths under attack as Evangelicals carry out 'holy war'
• 10:57 AM
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In 2024, Brazil recorded an almost 70 percent year-on-year increase in cases of discrimination and attacks on religious practices, according to the ministry of human rights. The main victims are religions of African origin, such as Umbanda and Candomblé.
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Why is Trump’s Liberation Day tariff transformation so risky?
• 10:30 AM
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US trading partners scrambled on Tuesday to prepare for the latest round of Donald Trump tariffs, after the U.S. president left unclear who would be targeted but promised to be 'very kind' in addressing what he claims are unfair trade imbalances. France2
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World economies brace for Trump new tariffs deadline
• 10:25 AM
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Donald Trump is calling it 'Liberation Day' for America, as he is set to launch new sweeping tariffs on April 2nd. However, millions of consumers worldwide are concerned that the U.S. president's plan could cause significant harm with minimal benefit, af
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Focus: Afro-Brazilian religions face evangelical ‘holy war’
• 9:27 AM
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According to the Ministry of Human Rights, in 2024 Brazil recorded an almost 70% year-on-year increase in cases of discrimination and attacks against religious practices. The main victims are religions of African origin such as Umbanda and Candomblé. The
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SpaceX launches first crewed spaceflight over Earth's polar regions
• 2:11 AM
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SpaceX launched the first human spaceflight directly over Earth's polar regions on Monday, sending four private astronauts on a pioneering mission to conduct experiments ranging from taking the first X-ray in space to testing mushroom growth in micrograv
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Yesterday
Sunday, march 30, 2025
Donald Trump 'pissed off' at Putin's comments calling for removal of Zelensky
• 5:54 PM
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FRANCE 24 Washington correspondent Fraser Jackson reports on US President Donald Trump's apparent anger at Russian President Vladimir Putin's calls for his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky to be replaced by a UN-run transitional government.
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Trump says he is 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine, raises prospect of bombing Iran
• 3:37 PM
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US President Donald Trump told US network NBC's Kristen Walker Sunday morning that he was "very angry, pissed off" with Russian President Vladimir Putin for questioning Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's future as a leader. He also reportedly said
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Trump pushes ahead with deportation plan as immigration authorities arrest university student
• 3:33 PM
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Donald Trump doubles down on his primary campaign promise to restrict both legal and illegal immigration to the United States. Immigration authorities have arrested another university student and are considering a proposal to collect social media data fr
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Saturday, march 29, 2025
Friday, march 28, 2025
War and peace-talking: Signalgate, Turkey protests, Ukraine's truce stalls
• 7:50 PM
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This week has seen the biggest unrest in Turkey in a decade. Mass street protests have taken place there in the face of a heavy government crackdown, where large gatherings have been banned, social media has been limited, and almost 2,000 people have bee
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Former US VP Al Gore says 'reaction to Trump's assault on democracy is very strong'
• 4:50 PM
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Al Gore, the 45th Vice President of the United States (1993–2001), granted a rare interview to FRANCE 24 in Paris. The renowned environmentalist took stock of the green transition, with Donald Trump's return to the White House expected to usher in a come
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Why violence against women is a men's issue
• 4:15 PM
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In this special edition, we focus on misogyny especially among boys and young men as the Netflix series, "Adolescence," has gone viral. The harrowing British drama, about a young boy accused of killing a female classmate, has garnered rave reviews for it
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Americans seek refuge in Mexico to protest against Trump’s anti-woke, anti-migrant USA
• 3:21 PM
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US President Donald Trump’s anti-woke and anti-migrant policies have convinced hordes of Americans to either move to, or stay put in, neighbouring Mexico. Already before Trump took office in January, a fifth of all American expats called Mexico their hom
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Trump's 'sustained campaign of attacks on US universities & science will take years to recover from'
• 1:48 PM
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In a major upheaval, the US Department of Health and Human Services, led by Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, will lay off 10,000 workers and shut down entire agencies, including ones that oversee billions of dollars in funds for addiction services a
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'Unwanted visit: How can Greenland welcome US VP with open arms' amid Trump's threats of annexation?
• 12:58 AM
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US Vice President JD Vance is set to tour a US military base in Greenland, a visit viewed by Copenhagen and Nuuk as a provocation amid President Donald Trump's bid to annex the strategically-placed, resource-rich Danish territory. For in-depth analysis a
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Honduras struggles to combat human trafficking
• 12:40 AM
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The small Central American country of Honduras has become a hub for a devastating – yet often overlooked – scourge: human trafficking, the third most profitable criminal activity in the world after drug and arms trafficking. Located between North and So
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Thursday, march 27, 2025
Canadian PM says era of close ties with US is 'over' after Trump's auto tariffs
• 11:14 PM
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Canada's new Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday declared that the era of deep ties between his country and its neighbour is "over" after US President Donald Trump announced "unjustified" 25 percent tariffs on all auto imports, promising retaliatory t
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Era of close ties with US 'is over': Canada PM Carney
• 10:13 PM
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The era of deep economic, security and military ties between Canada and the United States "is over," Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday, after President Donald Trump announced steep auto tariffs. Trump's planned 25 percent levy on vehicle imports t
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Is Trump planning to rename District of Columbia to District of America? No
• 9:33 PM
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A viral audio recording purportedly captures US President Donald Trump advocating for renaming Washington DC to Washington DA (District of America), as users claim that Trump is confusing Columbia for the South American country of Colombia. We explain in
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Bipartisan group of US senators demand probe into Signal chat scandal
• 4:41 PM
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A bipartisan group of top US senators called Thursday for a probe into why senior members of the Trump administration shared details of planned US air strikes in Yemen in a Signal chat group, which accidentally included a prominent journalist. The scanda
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'Moscow not interested at all in peace': Their conditions are designed to 'manipulate the US admin'
• 4:02 PM
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President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that France and Britain were leading efforts to send a "reassurance force" to Ukraine after any peace in the conflict with Russia, even if the idea was not approved by all European allies. For in-depth analysis and
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'Trump saying Greenland must be ours: Reminiscent of what Saddam Hussein said about Kuwait in 1990'
• 8:57 AM
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Ahead of US Vice President JD Vance's unilateral visit to Greenland, Denmark's Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen warned that the Nordic country would not let the United States decide what the Danish realm, including Greenland, should look like in the
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US appeals court rejects Trump administration bid to continue Venezuela deportations
• 4:30 AM
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Three US Court of Appeals judges denied the Trump administration's push to resume arbitrary deportations of Venezuelan migrants under the 1789 Alien Enemies Act, after the court found the first wave of such expulsions had been executed without due proces
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US immigration agents detain Turkish university student over article in campus paper
• 3:56 AM
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The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency on Thursday detained Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University who expressed pro-Palestine leanings in an article she co-authored. The Trump administration has arrested college studen
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The Atlantic shares transcript of Yemen war plan group chat
• 1:36 AM
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The Atlantic magazine on Wednesday published screenshots of the infamous group chat on the commercial text messaging app Signal which featured top-ranking US government officials discussing plans to strike Houthi rebel targets in Yemen. Despite the White
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Wednesday, march 26, 2025
Trump announces blanket 25% tariffs on automobile imports
• 10:58 PM
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Building on his administration's flurry of tariffs, US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that all foreign auto imports would face 25% tariffs, spreading fear throughout Wall Street and among the United States' long-time trading partners.
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USAID cuts deal heavy blow to health programmes for migrants in Mexico
• 9:56 PM
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on March 10 that Washington would slash 83 percent of its USAID-funded international aid projects. The decision is already having serious repercussions. In southern Mexico, the NGO Doctors of the World Switzerl
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USAID cuts deal heavy blow to health programs for migrants in Mexico
• 9:43 PM
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on the 10th March that Washington would slash 83% of its USAID-funded international aid projects. The decision is already having serious repercussions. In southern Mexico, the Swiss NGO, Doctors of the World,
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Were the Trump administration's leaked war plans on Signal chat classified?
• 9:33 PM
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Despite the Trump administration denying that its Yemen war plans discussed in the Signal group chat were classified, newly released screenshots by The Atlantic prove otherwise. We explain in this edition of Truth or Fake.
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Brazil's Bolsonaro to stand trial for attempted coup
• 9:00 PM
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Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro to stand trial on charges of plotting a coup. Investigators say that after his electoral defeat, but while still in office, plotters planned to install a state of emergency
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Above the law? Trump pushes powers of US presidency
• 7:25 PM
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Are we witnessing what's neither the first nor the last testing of the limits of US democracy? Or is Donald Trump taking the world's most powerful nation into unchartered territory? What to make of the attacks on judges and lawyers, as well as the attemp
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NASA develops airspace management system to monitor wildfires in California
• 4:39 PM
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In a secluded corner of California, NASA is trialling its portable aircraft management system designed to combat wildfires. Today, their aim is to ensure drones and remotely piloted helicopters remain within their designated flight paths, wildfire operat
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The Atlantic publishes details of US attack plan shared in Signal chat
• 2:53 PM
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US media outlet The Atlantic on Wednesday released the entire Signal chat, mistakenly shared with its Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, in which heads of the Trump administration's intelligence and defence agencies and senior White House staff discussed
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Brazil's Supreme Court orders ex-president Bolsonaro to stand trial over coup plot
• 5:41 AM
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Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered former president Jair Bolsonaro and close allies to face trial on charges of attempting to stage a coup after his 2022 election loss to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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Trump signs order requiring proof of US citizenship to vote in federal elections
• 12:12 AM
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President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday to overhaul US elections, requiring citizenship proof to register and insisting ballots arrive by Election Day. The order demands states collaborate with federal agencies on voter lists and pros
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Tuesday, march 25, 2025
JD Vance limits Greenland visit to US base after outcry
• 11:20 PM
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Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen on Wednesday welcomed Washington's decision to limit US Vice President JD Vance's Greenland visit to a US base in the Arctic island. The prime ministers of Denmark and Greenland, a Danish self-governed region,
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Trump brands chat leak journalist as 'total sleazebag'
• 11:09 PM
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President Donald Trump stepped up his criticism of a journalist who was accidentally added to a group chat about air strikes on Yemen, while denying that classified information was shared by US officials. "The guy's a total sleazebag," Trump said of The
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Viral audio of JD Vance allegedly criticising Elon Musk is fake
• 10:09 PM
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Is there a rift between the US vice president and Elon Musk? That's what a viral audio recording, allegedly of JD Vance, is suggesting. But the extract is a deepfake generated by artificial intelligence. Over the years, this technology has become increas
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US intel chiefs face Senate grilling over Yemen chat breach
• 7:21 PM
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The Trump administration's top intelligence officials stressed to Congress the threat they said was posed by international criminal gangs, drug cartels and human smuggling, testifying in a hearing Tuesday that unfolded against the backdrop of a security
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US Democrats grill Trump team for accidentally sending Yemen war plans to journalist
• 2:59 PM
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Democrats grilled President Donald Trump's top intelligence officials Tuesday over the revelation this week that senior officials had discussed details of US military strikes against Yemen's Houthis in a group chat that accidentally included a prominent
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Climate change: Peru's melting glaciers contaminate water supply
• 1:10 PM
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Peru is home to more than 2,000 glaciers. But like elsewhere in the world, they are melting faster and faster due to climate change. The country’s glaciers have lost more than half of their surface area over the past 50 years and this change in the lands
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'A shocking breach': White House accidentally sends US journalist Yemen war plans
• 10:02 AM
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PRESS REVIEW – Tuesday, March 25: The press decries a massive security breach after a journalist for The Atlantic is accidentally included on a group chat for Yemen war plans. Also: Colorado state officials take down a portrait of Donald Trump after he c
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Monday, march 24, 2025
Trump officials sent journalist classified US plan for Yemen strikes
• 10:48 PM
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A US journalist was inadvertently included in a group chat in which Pete Hegseth, JD Vance and other top American officials discussed upcoming strikes against Yemen's Huthi rebels, the White House confirmed Monday. Trump announced the strikes on March 15
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Arlington Cemetery scrubs pages highlighting Black, female and minority veterans
• 9:37 PM
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As the US pushes forward with the White House's rollback of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programmes in the US military, online users were either outraged or nonplussed about Arlington National Cemetery removing several pages highlighting Black, minori
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Journalist accidentally added to chat where US officials planned strikes on Houthis
• 7:39 PM
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The White House confirmed on Monday that a journalist was accidentally added to a group chat in which top US officials discussed plans for strikes against Yemen's Houthi rebels earlier this month. In the massive security breach, The Atlantic magazine’s E
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Greenland PM denounces US 'foreign interference' ahead of visit
• 7:37 PM
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Greenland's prime minister, Mute Egede, accused Washington on Monday of interfering in its political affairs by sending a US delegation to the Danish territory, which is coveted by US President Donald Trump. Egede said US National Security Adviser Mike W
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Trump announces 25% tariff on countries buying oil or gas from Venezuela
• 4:25 PM
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US President Donald Trump announced Monday that any country that buys oil or gas from Venezuela will be hit with 25 percent tariffs across the board. The Trump administration earlier this month gave US energy giant Chevron one month to stop its operation
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Sunday, march 23, 2025
US TikTok ban: New Oracle deal would violate law requirements, expert says
• 1:51 PM
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White House-led talks on the future of TikTok are coalescing around a plan for the biggest non-Chinese investors in parent company ByteDance to up their stakes and acquire the short video app's US operations. The plan, which would see software company Or
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New Canadian PM Mark Carney set to announce snap elections
• 10:28 AM
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Canada's new prime minister Mark Carney is expected to announce snap elections Sunday, seeking a stronger mandate as his country fights off a trade war and annexation threats from Donald Trump's United States. Meanwhile on Saturday, pro-Canada demonstrat
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Canadian PM Mark Carney calls snap elections amid Trump threats
• 1:33 AM
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Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney called on Sunday for early elections on April 28. In a speech to the nation, he vowed to defend the country’s sovereignty against US President Donald Trump’s repeated calls for annexation and tariff threats.
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Saturday, march 22, 2025
Trump administration revokes legal status for 500,000 Caribbean, Latin American immigrants
• 10:55 AM
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The Trump administration said on Friday it would terminate the legal status of 532,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, giving them 30 days to either secure an alternative immigration status or leave the country.
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Heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman dies aged 76
• 10:20 AM
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Former heavyweight champion George Foreman, who lost to Muhammad Ali in boxing's iconic 1974 "Rumble in the Jungle" before reclaiming the title two decades later, died Friday aged 76, his family said.
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Displaced by climate change: Villagers in Mexico lose homes to sea
• 12:40 AM
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Inhabitants from the small Mexican village of El Bosque have recently been recognised as "people displaced by climate change" by the government, a first in the country. In this small fishing town, many have lost their homes to the sea and have been reloc
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Friday, march 21, 2025
Inside El Salvador's 'Mega' Prison
• 11:05 PM
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France 24's Gavin Lee speaks to CBS Correspondent and Anchor Lilia Luciano, one of the few reporters to be given access inside the 'Terrorism Confinement Centre'
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Trump awards Boeing $20 billion contract to build next-generation F-47 fighter jets
• 4:41 PM
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US President Donald Trump on Friday awarded Boeing a $20 billion contract to build the US Air Force's most sophisticated fighter jet, which will be called the F-47. The win marks a reversal of fortune for Boeing, which has struggled on both the commercia
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Trump's assault on knowledge: Department of Education closure follows attacks on science
• 3:41 PM
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US President Donald Trump’s announced shuttering of the Department of Education comes amid a broader attack on knowledge and research. Since Trump returned to the presidency in January, US science has suffered budget cuts, layoffs and censorship, with gl
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Outrage after Trump silences pro-democracy media outlets Voice of America, Radio Free Europe
• 2:54 PM
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For decades, there had been bipartisan support for Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. These pro-democracy media outlets were a form of soft power, spreading American values but also providing an independent media to audiences living un
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US judge blocks deportation of Indian researcher accused of Hamas ties
• 4:06 AM
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Virginia District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles ordered that Georgetown University scholar Badar Khan Suri, who is of Indian origin, could not be deported for allegedly "spreading Hamas propaganda" until a new court ruling is issued.
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Trump signs order aimed at dismantling US Department of Education
• 1:19 AM
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Flanked by students and educators, US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order intended to essentially dismantle the federal Department of Education, making good on a longstanding campaign promise to conservatives.
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