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Banish Syed Qureshi was in high school when she felt the acute impact of the U. K.’s cost-of-living crisis. As a child of Pakistani immigrants, she grew up in the bustling neighborhood of Salford in South Manchester, where her parents took up working-class jobs like taxi driving to support a family of seven.

His rebellion may have lasted just a few hours, but he could face as much as 20 years in prison as a result. Bolivia’s army general Juan José Zúñiga, who was reportedly sacked earlier in the week, tried to take over the government of the South American country of 12.5 million by leading troops and tanks to storm the presidential palace and central plaza in capital La Paz on Wednesday afternoon. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “We are going to recover this homeland,” Zúñiga announced amid the putsch, which was quickly quashed as President Luis Arce called upon the public and new military leadership to stand up for democracy and force the insurrectionists to stand down. “To the Bolivian people and the entire international community, our country today is facing an attempted coup d’etat,” Arce said in a broadcast to the nation. A dramatic scene aired on Bolivian television showing Arce confronting Zúñiga in a hallway of the palace: “I am your captain, and I order you to withdraw your soldiers, and I will not allow this insubordination,” the President said. After the soldiers taking part in the uprising retreated, hundreds of supporters of Arce swarmed the plaza outside the palace in celebration.

Three bodies were found inside a crater at the summit of Mount Fuji, Japan’s most famous mountain, with one of them already brought down from the slopes, police said Thursday. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The identities of the people, including gender or age, were not confirmed. An effort to bring back the two other bodies will continue Friday or later, depending on weather conditions, they said.

An overwhelming majority of participants in a Thai government survey have backed the Southeast Asian nation’s plan to reclassify cannabis as a narcotics to prohibit its recreational use. At least 80% of the 111,201 respondents supported a draft plan to once again label marijuana as a “category five” from next year, according to Health Minister Somsak Thepsutin.

Few domesticated animals have flourished as well as rabbits have when reintroduced into the wild—a phenomenon that has often had economic and ecological consequences. And now a team of researchers has figured out why rabbits have had such success readapting to nature. In a study published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution on June 21, researchers worked to determine what factors make the furry critters such masterful colonizers of countries around the world. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Generally, it’s difficult for a domestic animal to survive in the wild, according to a press release about the study from Sweden’s Uppsala University, where one of the study’s senior authors, Leif Andersson, works.

As the death toll in Gaza continues to grow amid Israel’s punishing bombardment of the Strip, so too does another statistic: the missing children. To date, at least 21,000 children are missing amid the chaos of the war, according to a new report by Save the Children—a figure the charity says includes 17,000 children who are unaccompanied or separated from their families as a result of the war and the 4,000 children who are thought to be missing under the rubble, as well as the untold number of children who have either been detained by Israeli forces or have been recently discovered in mass graves. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] As with all of the statistics coming out of Gaza—including the more than 37,000-person death toll, a figure that is tracked by the Hamas-led Gaza Health Ministry and which is considered reliable by the U.