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Gustavo Petro is Colombia's first leftist leader
Gustavo Petro, a former rebel and a longtime legislator, won Colombia's presidential election Sunday, galvanizing voters frustrated by decades of poverty and inequality under conservative leaders
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China's mass testing mantra is building a waste mountain
From Beijing to Shanghai, Shenzhen to Tianjin, cities are now home to an archipelago of temporary testing kiosks, while authorities order hundreds of millions of people to get swabbed every two or three days
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Abortion: How things stand in US as court prepares to rule
A look at the state of affairs, as the Supreme Court is expected to deliver an opinion by next week that could roll back 50 years of abortion rights in the US
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Britain set for biggest rail strike in decades
Over 50,000 workers will take part in a three-day national strike to protest over pay in the midst of soaring inflation
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These polar bears can survive with less sea ice
The discovery suggests a way that a small number of bears might survive as warming continues and more of the sea ice that they normally depend on disappears; however, grave risk to overall polar bear populations remain
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A desperate flight to a better life at Lviv's train station
The desire to flee has become all the more urgent in recent days as the desperate struggle by Ukraine to hold on to its territory in the eastern Donbas region intensifies, with Ukrainian and Russian soldiers clashing in street battles
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Internet Explorer is shutting down in a burst of nostalgia
It was buggy and slow. But it was always there. Until it wasn't. On Wednesday, the web browser, loved and loathed by a generation, was officially retired, swept into the dustbin of internet history
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As BTS ponders its future, South Korea's economy warily takes note
In one day, the group's label HYBE saw its market value decline $1.7 billion. The drastic plunge underscores how South Korea's bestselling boy band has become not only a cultural sensation but also a powerful stakeholder in South Korea's economy
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'The power of cannabis': Japan embraces CBD despite drug taboo
Japan's CBD industry had an estimated value of $59 million in 2019, up from $3 million in 2015; the government is discussing approving medicines derived from marijuana, already used in many countries to treat conditions like severe epilepsy
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Elon Musk sued for $258 billion over dogecoin 'pyramid scheme'
Keith Johnson, who says he lost money after investing in dogecoin, described himself as an "American citizen who was defrauded" by what he called a "Dogecoin Crypto Pyramid Scheme"
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North Korea says hundreds of families ill with intestinal disease
The unidentified illness is putting a strain on a crumbling healthcare system in the midst of the Covid-19 storm