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When Bobby Bostic was released from prison in November, 27 years into a 241-year sentence, lots of things seemed strange. From wireless earphones ("Why are dudes talking to themselves?"), to people talking to their speaker ("I'm like,…
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A deadly fungal infection that is hard to treat is spreading rapidly at an "alarming" rate, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). US cases nearly doubled in 2021 from 756 to 1,471, says the CDC report. Healthy…
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In 2018, Maria Silvia Fiengo and Francesca Pardi were among Italy's first same-sex couples to be registered as parents. The mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, took a progressive stance and allowed children born to parents of the same gender…
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"Oh God, don't let us get to the point of having to eat chicken feet," says a man begging alongside the poultry sellers in Giza market. Egypt is facing a deepening economic crisis, a situation so acute its people are struggling to feed…
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Police in Ohio fatally shot a zebra after it bit its owner on the arm and continued to act aggressively toward officers, authorities said. Officers arrived to the man's home in Circleville, Ohio, on Sunday after he called and reported…
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Women in Berlin will be allowed to go swimming topless after a discrimination complaint. The decision was made after the complainant, whose identity remains private, turned to the senate's ombudsperson's office for equal treatment to…
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The bins are overflowing in large areas of Paris a week into a strike by waste collectors, with thousands of tonnes of rubbish sitting abandoned on the streets of the French capital. "It's dirty, it attracts rats and cockroaches," one…
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Evarline Okello breaks down in tears as she tells me she is hundreds of dollars in debt, after paying a pastor to pray for her. She lives in a tiny shack in Kibera, a vast slum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and can no longer provide…
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Four Americans were kidnapped by a drug cartel, and two of them were murdered, when they visited the town of Matamoros, Mexico. So why would the cartel apologise for the incident and hand over its own gunmen to the police? A letter left…
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Dozens of bushfires burning across Australia's east coast could get worse as a severe heatwave continues, fire services have warned. After two years of rains and floods, a return to warmer conditions has sparked New South Wales state's…
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