March 04, 2022

Welcoming the Stranger

Apartment-sharing app Airbnb is offering free temporary housing to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees who have scrambled across their neighbors’ borders in cars, buses, trains and on foot to flee Russian bombs and bullets. The Silicon Valley company and hosts were underwriting the short-term stays, the Washington...

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March 04, 2022

The Return of the King

Spanish prosecutors dropped three cases against former King Juan Carlos this week, citing insufficient evidence, the statute of limitations and the monarch’s constitutional immunity, the Guardian reported Thursday. The 84-year-old royal had been embroiled in a number of damaging scandals concerning his business dealings that prompted...

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March 04, 2022

Ceremonial Duties

Armenian lawmakers elected former minister of high-technology industry, Vanagh Khachatrian, as the country’s new president, following the resignation of his predecessor over the lack of power in the presidency, Radio Free Europe reported Thursday. Khachatrian won 71 votes in the second round of balloting and is...

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March 04, 2022

Ukraine Briefly

Ukraine’s nuclear inspectorate said Russian forces had captured Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant, Europe's largest, after it caught on fire during Russian shelling, Reuters reported. The fire at the plant was brought under control but UK leader Boris Johnson, echoing worries over radiation and a nuclear...

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March 04, 2022

Remember Them

A new study recently proposed the idea that species can become extinct more than once. In the biological sense, extinction occurs when the last creature of a species dies. But they can also be forgotten, according to Science Alert. Scientists recently studied the concept of “societal extinction”...

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