For more than two years, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un insisted that the coronavirus had not pierced his country's population, even as health experts and media worldwide found evidence that the illness had spread throughout the globe. Recently, however, Kim admitted that Covid-19 has reached...
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China condemned the United States on Monday after President Joe Biden warned that the US would intervene militarily to defend Taiwan if Beijing attempted a takeover of the island, CNN reported. During a joint news conference with Japan’s prime minister, Biden said that it was “(not)...
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Belgium became the first country to introduce quarantine measures for monkeypox patients amid concerns that the disease is spreading across the globe, CNBC reported Monday. Belgian health authorities ordered a 21-day quarantine after the country reported its third case of the virus. As of Monday, Belgium...
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Ethiopian authorities arrested thousands of people this week in what human rights groups have described as a crackdown on militia fighters, journalists and critics of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s administration, the Associated Press reported. Security officials said Monday they detained more than 4,500 individuals in the...
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Heavy fighting continued in Ukraine's Donbas area as Russian troops advanced on Severodonetsk, where local leaders have accused Russia of adopting "scorched-earth" tactics, Al Jazeera noted. Meanwhile, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered a message of solidarity against Russian aggression to an assembly of global business...
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Scientists have found that monkeys with more friends had larger areas of the brain linked to empathy and social-decision making, the Independent reported. In a new study, researchers monitored a group of free-ranging rhesus macaques in Puerto Rico for a number of years. They primarily focused...
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