Chilean President Gabriel Boric recently apologized to thousands of women who were forcibly sterilized over the years because they were HIV positive. As Al Jazeera reported, activists greeted the apology with a massive sigh of relief and a sense of vindication. The move was one of...
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Algeria suspended a decades-old cooperation treaty with Spain this week amid a fight over the disputed territory of Western Sahara, the Local Spain reported Thursday. Algerian officials said they will suspend “the treaty of friendship, good neighborliness and co-operation” signed between the two countries in 2002....
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An Iraqi court sentenced a British man to 15 years in prison this week after finding him guilty of attempting to smuggle ancient artifacts from a country known as the cradle of civilization, CNN reported. The judge said that former geologist Jim Fitton had attempted to...
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Thousands of British employees began the world’s biggest trial of the four-day work week this week, the latest effort to reduce working time following the impact caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the Washington Post reported. The six-month trial will include more than 3,300 workers from 70...
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A court in the pro-Russian self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic on Thursday sentenced to death three foreigners convicted of being "mercenaries" for Ukraine, the Washington Post reported. The three men – two British and one Moroccan – were apprehended by Russian authorities in Mariupol in...
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Scientists recently discovered that jackdaws practice a form of democracy when deciding to take flight in large numbers, Sky News reported. Researchers at the University of Exeter, in Britain, wrote in a new study that jackdaws roost in groups of hundreds – or thousands – and...
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