‘The war on drugs has failed’: Colombia’s first leftist president calls for peace and unity – video
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Colombia’s first leftist president has been sworn into office, promising to fight inequality and bring peace to a country long haunted by bloody feuds between the government, drug traffickers and rebel groups.Gustavo ...
The most awe-inspiring and exuberant birds are facing extinction first – let’s stop nature becoming boring
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For decades ecologists have been warning about the homogenisation of diversity – species becoming more alike – in the living world. Nou, researchers at the University of Sheffield have published research predicting th...
Covid becomes equal leading cause of death in New Zealand for first time
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Covid-19 became the equal leading cause of death in New Zealand for the first time in July, overtaking stroke and drawing even with ischaemic heart disease as the country’s No 1 moordenaar. Michael Baker, an epidemiologis...
Covid becomes Australia’s third most common cause of death in 2022
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Daar was 7,100 Covid deaths in the first seven months of 2022, according to new research from the Actuaries Institute, making the virus the third most common cause of death so far this year. Daily surveillance repor...
Colombia’s first leftist president says war on drugs has failed
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Colombia’s first leftist president has been sworn into office, promising to fight inequality and bring peace to a country long haunted by bloody feuds between the government, drug traffickers and rebel groups. Gustavo...
Openbaar gemaak: UK ran cold war dirty tricks campaign to smear Kenya’s first vice-president
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British cold war propagandists smeared Kenyan vice-president Oginga Odinga in the 1960s in “black” propaganda operations, newly declassified files reveal. The Foreign Office’s propaganda arm, the Information Research ...
The 23-year-old fashion designer dressing Colombia’s first black female vice-president
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Esteban Sinisterra Paz, a 23-year-old fashion designer from Colombia’s conflict-ridden and impoverished Pacific region, had not long started his career when he received a call from a history-making client. Francia Már...
Alex Jones to pay $4.1m over false Sandy Hook claims
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Goeie more. The jury in Alex Jones’s defamation trial on Thursday ordered the far-right conspiracy theorist to pay $4.1m in damages over his repeated claims that the deadly Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax. Jur...