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Category: 4. World
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Thailand rolls out US$300 fines for daytime drinkers in change to alcohol laws
People in Thailand wanting to quench their thirst with an afternoon tipple risk steep fines from Saturday under amended alcohol control legislation that strengthens enforcement and significantly tightens restrictions around marketing and…Continue Reading
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Joint Statement on the Fourth Joint Oversight Committee for the Peace Agreement
The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of Rwanda, the State of Qatar, the Republic of Togo (as the African Union mediator), and…
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At UN climate summit, countries attest to harms of Earth’s warming
BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Officials from countries most vulnerable to global warming offered searing dispatches of life on the front line of a warming planet Friday, as world leaders gathered on the edge of…
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A whale-surfing fish hitches the ocean’s wildest joyride
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — There are easier ways to cross an ocean, but few are as slick or stylish as the remora’s whale-surfing joyride.
Scientists tracking humpbacks off the coast of Australia…
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The Boomerang Soldiers: How Romania’s commandos became mercenaries—then came back to coup Bucharest
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In January 2025, approximately 300 mercenaries commanded by Romanian-French fighter Horațiu Potra were captured in the Democratic Republic of Congo, formally taken into UN…
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Turkey issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, other Israeli leaders over ‘genocide’ in Gaza
Turkey announced Friday that it had issued arrest warrants for alleged genocide against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior officials in his government over the war in Gaza against Hamas.
The announcement was met with a firm…
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Serbia passes bill enabling Jared Kushner to build luxury compound despite opposition
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian lawmakers on Friday passed a special law clearing the way for a controversial real estate project that would be financed by an investment company linked to Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared…
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Canadian Food Inspection Agency completes ostrich cull at British Columbia farm
EDGEWOOD, British Columbia (AP) — A Canadian federal agency said Friday it has shot dead all ostriches at a British Columbia farm, fulfilling a 10-month-old cull order over a bird flu outbreak.
The…
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