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- Sudan reports sinking of boat on Blue Nile, 23 women drowned
Monday - 04/04/2022 - 05:19 AMSudanese authorities say a boat sank last week on the Blue Nile and at least 23 women are believed to have drowned
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UN panel to release report on efforts to curb climate change
Monday - 04/04/2022 - 06:28 AMA U.N.-backed panel is set to release a highly anticipated scientific report on international efforts to curb climate change before global temperatures reach dangerous levels
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - US seizes yacht owned by oligarch with close ties to Putin
Monday - 04/04/2022 - 08:58 AMThe U.S. government seized a mega yacht in Spain owned by an oligarch with close ties to the Russian president
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - June Brown, 'EastEnders' icon Dot Cotton, dies at 95
Monday - 04/04/2022 - 10:00 AMJune Brown, who played the chain-smoking Cockney matriarch Dot Cotton on the British soap opera “EastEnders” for 35 years, has died
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Taiwan’s Han Chinese seek a new identity among the island’s tribes
Monday - 04/04/2022 - 05:00 AMAmid increasing Chinese rhetoric about unification, some Taiwanese are looking to the island’s Indigenous communities for their own separate identity.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Russia-Ukraine live updates: U.S., Europe threaten sanctions after Bucha killings; Red Cross blocked from Mariupol
Monday - 04/04/2022 - 09:51 AMUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called Russian forces “butchers, rapists and looters" who committed genocide.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Exiled oligarch calls on other Russian tycoons to break with Putin
Sunday - 04/03/2022 - 03:18 PMMikhail Khodorkovsky says they must denounce the invasion of Ukraine if they want to be above suspicion of collaborating with Putin.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Officials: Blast in Afghan capital kills 1, wounds dozens
Sunday - 04/03/2022 - 08:01 AMHospital officials say an explosion in the center of the Afghan capital of Kabul killed one person and wounded at least 59
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pope prays for end to 'sacrilegious' war, refugee welcome
Sunday - 04/03/2022 - 12:16 PMPope Francis is praying for an end to the “sacrilegious” war in Ukraine and for the world to show compassion to refugees
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In Tbilisi, Georgia, even Russian activists get a less friendly welcome
Sunday - 04/03/2022 - 04:00 AMThe anti-Putin protesters face anger as well as support in a country with still-raw memories of its own invasion.
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- Greece: Scuffles break out as child-killer suspect arraigned
Monday - 04/04/2022 - 06:05 AMPolice have led a 33-year-old woman accused of killing her hospitalized daughter to court in Athens for an arraignment as authorities investigate the deaths of her two other daughters
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - German lawmakers seek elusive compromise on vaccine mandate
Monday - 04/04/2022 - 07:42 AMGerman lawmakers who proposed a requirement for all adults to be vaccinated against COVID-19 are seeking a compromise after struggling to win a majority in parliament
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Shelling of rebel village in northern Syria kills 4 students
Monday - 04/04/2022 - 09:46 AMSyrian opposition activists say government forces shelled a rebel-held village in northwestern Syria, the country’s last major opposition stronghold, killing four students on their way to school
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The war in Ukraine and a ‘turning point in history’
Monday - 04/04/2022 - 12:01 AMFor many on both sides of the Atlantic, the battles in Ukraine may mark something stark: a “Zeitenbruch” — a rupture in history, the closing of one age and the entry into another marked by even deeper uncertainty and great power rivalry.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sri Lanka’s president scrambles to end protests over economic turmoil
Monday - 04/04/2022 - 09:02 AMRajapaksa and his family are under pressure from fuel and food shortages.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pope still working on meeting Russian Orthodox patriarch
Sunday - 04/03/2022 - 03:33 PMPope Francis says he is still working on arranging a meeting with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, despite that leader’s seeming justification for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Talks on new UN climate report going down to the wire
Sunday - 04/03/2022 - 07:45 AMNegotiations between scientists and governments over a key United Nations climate report were going down to the wire Sunday
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - First fuel ship allowed in Yemen's Hodeida as part of truce
Sunday - 04/03/2022 - 10:07 AMA tanker carrying badly needed fuel has arrived in Yemen’s blockaded port of Hodeida as a cease-fire meant to stop the fighting in the war-torn country for two months entered its first full day
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - California mass shooting: 6 dead, 10 injured in Sacramento
Sunday - 04/03/2022 - 01:52 PMPolice in California are searching for at least one suspect in connection with a mass shooting in downtown Sacramento that claimed six lives and left 10 people injured
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Zelensky, entering new stage of war, faces political test
Sunday - 04/03/2022 - 06:00 AMVolodymyr Zelensky has emerged as a modern Ukrainian hero, instilling a will to resist and a deep national pride among the country’s population. But as he seeks an agreement with Russia to end the war, he risks becoming a victim of his own succeess, as Ukrainians are in little mood to compromise.
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- Sweden to give 4th COVID-19 shot to people over 65
Monday - 04/04/2022 - 05:34 AMSweden is recommending a fourth COVID-19 vaccine dose to people over 65 and those living in nursing homes or getting home care
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Germany arrests right-wing extremist over fatal 1991 attack
Monday - 04/04/2022 - 08:03 AMGerman prosecutors say they have arrested a right-wing extremist over an arson attack on a home for asylum-seekers more than 30 years ago in which a Ghanaian man was killed
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WHO says 99% of world's population breathes poor-quality air
Monday - 04/04/2022 - 09:38 AMThe U.N. health agency says nearly everybody in the world breathes air that doesn’t meet its standards for air quality
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hong Kong’s Carrie Lam won’t seek second term as chief executive
Monday - 04/04/2022 - 12:54 AMCarrie Lam will retire from politics, ending a five-year run as chief executive, with a legacy as one of Hong Kong’s most unpopular leaders.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bucha massacre tests Europe’s ‘red lines’ on Russian energy
Monday - 04/04/2022 - 08:29 AMThe E.U. has worked with the U.S. and other allies to hit Russia with a series of sanctions packages and other penalties, but it continues to buy Russian oil and gas.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In war-torn Syria, a charity offers hope to kids with cancer
Sunday - 04/03/2022 - 10:49 PMThe beds fill up fast at a hospital ward in Syria’s capital operated by BASMA, a private charity association that supports Syrian children with cancer
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Outrage widens over Russian attacks Zelensky now calls a ‘genocide’
Sunday - 04/03/2022 - 07:56 PMExplosions rocked Odessa early Sunday, while tens of thousands of people remained cut off from desperately needed aid in Mariupol, which the Red Cross still hasn’t been able to reach.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Taliban clamp down on drugs, announce ban on poppy harvest
Sunday - 04/03/2022 - 11:22 AMAfghanistan’s ruling Taliban have announced a ban on the poppy harvest, even as farmers in some parts of the country began extracting the opium from the plant that is needed for making heroin
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Somaliland market fire losses estimated at up to $2 billion
Sunday - 04/03/2022 - 12:40 PMA massive fire in an expansive market in the capital of Somaliland destroyed property worth up to $2 billion, according to local officials in the autonomous region of Somalia
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Odessa rocked by explosions as Russia claims strikes on oil refinery, fuel depots
Sunday - 04/03/2022 - 07:59 AMDark plumes of smoke could be seen on the skyline near one of Odessa’s major ports.
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