World - Part 18

1 In 4 Americans Thinks The Sun Goes Around The Earth, Survey Says
Twenty-six percent in a survey of 2,200 people conducted in 2012 answered that the Sun revolves around the Earth, and fewer than half correctly answered a question about human origins. ...[Read more]
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Ebola outbreak in Guinea: Four things you need to know
Guinea has declared an outbreak of Ebola after seven confirmed cases and at least three deaths, a leading health official in the West African nation said on Sunday. In a region that was previously the starting point for the world’s worst outbreak of ...[Read more]
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Oakland, San Francisco residents unite against anti-Asian hate crimes
In the wake of a spike of violent attacks against Asian and Asian-American residents, many of them elderly, outraged citizens from all different backgrounds in U.S. cities Oakland and San Francisco have joined in solidarity over the past weekend. In San ...[Read more]
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Biden risks an early major blunder on the world stage
As Congress still struggles to pass a COVID relief bill, the rest of the world is nervously reserving judgment on America's new president and his foreign policy, after successive U.S. administrations have delivered unexpected and damaging shocks to the wo ...[Read more]
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‘I don’t trust the people above me’: Riot squad cops open up about disastrous Capitol insurrection response
The enemies on Jan. 6 were Americans: thousands of people from across the country who had descended on the Capitol, intent on stopping Congress from certifying an election they believed was stolen from Trump. They had been urged to attend by Trump himself ...[Read more]
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‘Yet Another Cry for Help’: UN Report Warns Millions of Yemeni Children Face Acute Malnutrition
"These numbers are yet another cry for help from Yemen, where each malnourished child also means a family struggling to survive," said David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Program, which prepared the report with the Food and Agriculture Org ...[Read more]
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Charged with murder, Kyle Rittenhouse disappears after ill-advised bail release
Prosecutors have requested a new arrest warrant for Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois teen who killed two men and severely injured one more when he openly fired at protesters during a Black Lives Matter demonstration last year. Rittenhouse was charged... ...[Read more]
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Police Deployed Potentially Lethal Chemical During Black Lives Matter Protests
The hexachloroethane smoke that police used against protesters can cause vomiting, respiratory distress and even death. BLM protesters were no strangers to tear gas and smoke — after all, the Portland Police had gassed them many times since the George ...[Read more]
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New Lancet Report: 40 Percent of US COVID Deaths Could Have Been Avoided
The scathing new report is an indictment of both Trump and a health care system that values profit over human life. ...[Read more]
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This bizarre conspiracy theory is why QAnon believers are predicting Trump’s return on March 4th
On CNN Wednesday, "QAnon Anonymous" podcast host Julian Feeld explained the strange new conspiracy theory that Trump will be re-inaugurated on March 4th as the "19th president" of the "restored" United States — and how it ties into long-standing "sov ...[Read more]
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Cuba’s COVID-19 Vaccines Serve the People, Not Profits
Cuba’s socialist approach to developing vaccines against COVID-19 differs strikingly from that of capitalist nations of the world. Cuba’s production of four vaccines is grounded in science and dedicated to saving the lives of all Cubans, and to intern ...[Read more]
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