Home Alone

A 13-year-old Chinese boy was home alone for 66 days in Kunshan in eastern China while his parents got caught up in a coronavirus lockdown in Shanghai. As the South China Morning Post reported, the boy took care of himself as well as his family’s...

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Laid to Unrest

Israeli police and Palestinian mourners clashed over the weekend during the funeral of a prominent Palestinian-American journalist, a death that has already inspired international condemnation and calls for an investigation, the Wall Street Journal reported. The clashes broke out over the killing of Al Jazeera correspondent...

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The Big Shrug

Venezuela is planning to attract private investors to pump money into its essential but crippled state-run firms, a move analysts consider a major reversal after the country’s socialist government seized them years ago, the Associated Press reported. The government will begin offering five to 10 percent...

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Duty Bound

An Indian couple sued their son for almost $650,000 this week, demanding he and his wife either produce a grandchild by the end of the year or pay the full amount, Agence France-Presse reported. Parents Sanjeev and Sadhana Prasad said they had exhausted their savings by...

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The New Meat

Scientists recently discovered that deforestation could be drastically reduced if people start eating meat made out of fungi, the Guardian reported. In a new study, a research team described how this type of meat is made from microbial protein, which can be produced from different organisms,...

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