06/20/2022 - DailyChatter

Ukrainian prosecutors claim that Russian forces have committed more than 15,000 war crimes while waging Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war to push back against Western influence and reconstitute the Russian-Soviet empire, Sky News reported recently. That’s a rate of as many as 300 per day...

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The World Briefly

June 20, 2022

We Want You, Now

India

Thousands of protesters clashed with police across India over the weekend to protest a new military recruitment plan which the government said would reduce costs and modernize the army, Reuters reported. The unrest resulted in the death of at least one person and more than a...

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The World Briefly

June 20, 2022

Symbolic, and Loaded

Catalonia Israel Spain

The parliament of Spain’s Catalonia region passed a resolution this week accusing Israel of committing apartheid against the Palestinians, the first European legislature to do so, the Times of Israel reported. The vote came months after the region’s leftist parties proposed the draft resolution, which alleges...

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The World Briefly

June 20, 2022

A Rainforest Tragedy

Brazil

Brazilian police arrested a third person over the weekend in connection with the murders of a British journalist and a Brazilian Indigenous expert researching illegal fishing and poaching, and who went missing in the deep Amazon rainforest earlier this month, the New York Times reported. Journalist...

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Ukraine Briefly

June 20, 2022

Ukraine, Briefly

Russia Ukraine

The European Commission has endorsed Ukraine's request for EU membership, putting it one step closer to joining the bloc, the BBC reported. Candidacy is an important step in joining the EU, but the process could take years. The European Commission's suggestion still has to...

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Discoveries

June 20, 2022

Chimp-Finder

An international team of scientists recently created the world’s largest wild chimpanzee genomic catalog by sequencing DNA from the animals’ excrement, according to Zenger News. In their paper, researchers explained how they gathered genomic data from more than 800 chimp fecal samples, a process that poses...

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The World Briefly

We Want You, Now

India

The World Briefly

Symbolic, and Loaded

Catalonia Israel Spain

The World Briefly

A Rainforest Tragedy

Brazil

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Ukraine, Briefly

Russia Ukraine

Discoveries

Chimp-Finder