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Inside the Amazon journey that left a journalist and activist dead
In the Amazon, such disappearances often go unnoticed. It is a period of growing lawlessness in the world's largest rainforest, and this isolated patch near the borders with Colombia and Peru has been largely abandoned by the Brazilian government
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Twitter stares at uncertain future as it faces messy breakup with Musk
While Twitter looks well positioned to win a court battle with Elon Musk over a $1 billion breakup fee and more—but the company will not emerge unscathed
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Laughter, piano at vacant Sri Lanka presidential palace
Now a new symbol of "people power", thousands of men, women and children have been pouring into the imposing state mansion queuing to sit on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's chair on the upper floor while children and parents banged on a grand piano downstairs after its occupant fled recently
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World population to hit 8 billion this year: UN
India is set to surpass China as the most populous country on earth in 2023
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Leaked Uber docs reveal bare-knuckle expansion tactics
Dubbed the "Uber Files," the ICIJ investigation found that company officials leveraged the sometimes violent backlash from the taxi industry against drivers to garner support and evaded regulatory authorities as it looked to conquer new markets early in its history
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When directing The Beatles is just one part of your long and winding career
In January 1969, Lindsay-Hogg was the brash young film director who tried to charm and cajole John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr through warring agendas as they hashed out new songs and gave their last concert on a London rooftop
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Back from the dead, VHS tapes trigger a new collecting frenzy
At a sale by Heritage Auctions in June, a "Back to the Future" videocassette went for $75,000, while "The Goonies" and "Jaws" copies were sold for $50,000 and $32,500, respectively
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'Evolution gone crazy': What makes sea dragons so strange?
Bill Cresko at the University of Oregon studies sea dragon genetics to answer one fundamental question: He and his colleagues want to know "how the hell" these fish came to look the way they do
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A pop star tried to reconcile Russia and Ukraine. War ruined that
Ivan Dorn, a Ukrainian musician, had mostly finished his first album in five years by February. "Dorndom" was recorded in a village in northern Ukraine, and has songs in Russian, as he does on most of the hits that have propelled him to stardom in both Ukraine and Russia
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Boris Johnson's lies worked for years, until they didn't
After a lifetime of swaggering and dissembling his way through one scandal after another on the strength of his prodigious political skills, Boris Johnson has finally reached the end. It seems that the laws of gravity apply to him after all
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Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister, dead at 67
Abe was a sprightly 52 when he first became prime minister in 2006, the youngest person to occupy the job in the postwar era. He was seen as a symbol of change and youth, but also brought the pedigree of a third-generation politician groomed from birth by an elite, conservative family