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‘Bound to secrecy’: The indelible ink behind the world’s biggest election
India’s massive, twice-a-decade exercise in democracy is once again leaving its mark on the country’s people, in the form of purple-streaked index fingers.
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E-waste is overflowing landfills. At one sprawling Vietnam market, workers recycle some of it
When he first started working two decades ago in Nhat Tao market, Ho Chi Minh City’s biggest informal recycling market, he usually salvaged computers with bulky monitors and heavy processors. Most repair shops are a single room crammed with junked electronic devices or e-waste with tables placed outside. Workers, many of them migrants from across Vietnam, repair or salvage items like laptops, scarred mobile phones, camera lenses, television remotes, even entire air conditioning units.
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Death toll from heavy rains in southern Brazil jumps to 29, with 60 more still mising
The death toll from heavy rains in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state jumped to 29 as of Thursday night, with another 60 people missing, according to the state's civil defense agency. Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva traveled to the state on Thursday to meet with local authorities and express his solidarity.
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The unprecedented destruction of housing in Gaza hasn't been seen since World War II, the UN says
The world hasn’t seen anything like the unprecedented destruction of housing in Gaza since World War II, and it would take at least until 2040 to restore the homes devastated in Israel’s bombing and ground offensive if the conflict ended today, the United Nations reported Thursday. The U.N. assessment said the social and economic impact of the war launched after Hamas’ surprise attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7 has been increasing “in an exponential manner.” It called the level of casualties
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2024 BMO Celebrating Women Grant Program launches to back women-owned businesses
Grants will be awarded to ten women-owned businesses that address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
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Report: Hamas leader calls for changes to hostage deal proposal
The leader of the Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Yehya al-Sinwar, still has three demands in the current negotiation offer for a hostage deal, according to a media report. He continues to demand a guaranteed end to the war, a source close to the Hamas leader told the Israeli television station Channel 12 on Thursday evening. Israel has so far denied this. Sinwar reportedly wants a written commitment for an "unconditional end to the fighting". According to the broadcas
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Students protest Israel-Hamas war at Dickinson College
CARLISLE, Pa. (WHTM) – A few dozen students are protesting the Israel-Hamas War at a Midstate college. They’ve set up encampments on campus of Dickinson College and have been there for about a week. John Jones, president of the college, says they’ve been peaceful and both sides have been in talks regarding demands. “They’re asking […]
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