Save Right Whale Coalition Sickened Over Government Response to Deaths of Whales in NY, NJ (www.shorenewsnetwork.com)
Rising with the Hill Talking with Michael Shellenberger, journalist and founder of Public Documentary film, Thrown To The Wind m.youtube.com/watch?v=iZYkWtARR5k...
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Fears UK’s cashless society will leave more than just the vulnerable behind (www.theguardian.com)
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2 Nigerian men accused of running a global ‘sextortion’ ring linked to a teen’s suicide have been extradited to US, officials say (www.cnn.com)
According to prosecutors, Samuel Ogoshi used a hacked social media account to make contact with DeMay while pretending to be a young woman. After persuading DeMay to provide a sexually explicit photo of himself, Ogoshi allegedly threatened to publicly release the image unless DeMay paid the scammers....
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North Korea punishes women for wearing shorts, declaring them ‘capitalist fashion’ (www.rfa.org)
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New Covid vaccines are on the way as 'Eris' variant rises (www.reuters.com)
Some public health experts hope that Americans will welcome the new shot as they would a flu jab. But demand for the vaccine has dropped sharply since 2021 when it first became available and more than 240 million people in the U.S., or 73% of the population, received at least one shot....
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Russian rouble sinks, Kremlin blames loose monetary policy (www.reuters.com)
The rouble has lost around a quarter of its value against the dollar since Putin sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022, as Western sanctions shrink Russia’s balance of trade and military spending soars....
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Hungarian official: "Without Cluj there is no Hungarian nation" (www.romaniajournal.ro)
Without Cluj there is no Hungarian nation, and the development of the city is due to the unity of the Hungarians, Budapest official says
7 prominent Hong Kong activists cleared of organising 2019 protest (hongkongfp.com)
While cleared of organising an August 2019 protest, the high-profile pro-democracy figures, including media tycoon Jimmy Lai and lawyers Margaret Ng and Martin Lee, had their convictions and sentences for participating in that rally upheld.
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Ditching the young entrepreneur myth: research shows over-50s are the more radical innovators (theconversation.com)
Based on data on 2,900 founders of new ventures in Germany in 2008–2017, we found that for every ten more years of age increases a founder’s likelihood to introduce a market novelty by up to 30 percent. Thus, those late-career entrepreneurs who are highly innovation-oriented and managerially experienced are more than three...
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Perfectly Preserved Dinosaur Embryo Found Inside Fossilized Egg (www.iflscience.com)
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Putin's Hunger Games: The Ukraine War Is Forcing Millions to Face Starvation and 'Look Death in the Eyes' (www.rollingstone.com)
"More than 80 percent of food imports in Somalia and East Africa were already coming from Ukraine and Russia even before the war,” Shashwat Saraf, the regional emergency director for East Africa at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Nairobi, Kenya. “Over the past year, Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya are coming out of...
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China is threatening Uyghurs in Türkiye to spy on diaspora, human rights activists say (safeguarddefenders.com)
The People’s Republic of China is increasingly pressuring Uyghurs living in Türkiye to spy on the local Uyghur diaspora, according to Safeguard Defenders. Chinese police leverage intelligence gathered from these networks to coerce Uyghurs into spying for them, keeping quiet about China’s human rights abuses or producing...
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Russian warship fires warning shots on cargo ship in Black Sea (www.reuters.com)
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Albury resident 'crying out' for justice 19 years after surviving horrific massacre in east Africa (www.abc.net.au)
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China: UN experts demand information on nine imprisoned Tibetan human rights defenders (news.un.org)
The experts sounded the alarm on the lack of information provided by Chinese authorities - deeming it a deliberate attempt to “make the world forget” about the individuals who are spending year after year in isolation.
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“Tell the world what’s happening”: Uyghur refugees on escaping genocide in China [podcast, 49 minutes] (www.ctpublic.org)
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In Marion County newspaper raid, a grim threat to Kansans’ First Amendment rights (kansasreflector.com)
Police raided the offices of a local newspaper, the Kansas Reflector, seizing computers & cell phones.
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Trump’s defense in the 2020 election case, explained by legal experts (www.vox.com)
Former President Donald Trump’s legal defense against federal criminal charges for trying to overturn the 2020 election is beginning to take shape....
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Canadians returning home from Maui tell stories of ‘war zone’ horror (www.theglobeandmail.com)
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Uyghur dentist held hostage in China's Xinjiang region as his wife and daughter wait in vain in the U.S. (thechinaproject.com)
Ablimit Abliz, a dentist in Ürümqi, has not been accused of any crime, but the government won’t let him leave or speak freely to his wife, Adalet Sabit, who lives in Virginia. Their case is far from unique.
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80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans: ‘A lot of executives have egg on their faces’ (www.cnbc.com)
Many company executives now regret their initial return-to-office plans, as 80% say they would have approached it differently if they understood employee preferences. While some firms are requiring more in-office time, citing collaboration needs, others are scaling back requirements due to retention issues. Successful companies...
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Archaeologists discovered a 17th-century 'vampire child' with a padlocked ankle in a Polish 'necropolis' graveyard (www.businessinsider.com)
Archaeologists in Poland discovered the skeletal remains of a child buried face down around 17th century. The child’s ankle had a triangular padlock attached, a common practice during that time to prevent “vampires” from rising from the dead. Nearby was also found the remains of a pregnant woman. These burials were located...
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'The goal is to disguise propaganda as independent content.' A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul (web.archive.org)
From a think tank in Massachusetts to an event space in Manhattan, from a political party in South Africa to news organizations in India and Brazil, investigators tracked hundreds of millions of dollars to groups linked to Mr. Singham that mix progressive advocacy with Chinese government talking points....
New Zealand intelligence report accuses China, Russia, Iran of ‘foreign interference’ (www.theguardian.com)
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