Massive but mostly peaceful demonstrations were held in numerous cities and towns across the Latin American country on Saturday. ‘Fora Bolsonaro’ (Bolsonaro Out) was one of the main slogans among protesters, who demanded the impeachment of President Jair Bolsonaro over the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. People flooded the streets …
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If Dominic Cummings has achieved anything in British politics, then it is using his appearance before a usually dull-as-ditchwater Parliamentary select committee to make it nearly eight hours of must-watch television as he lobbed grenade after grenade into the Downing Street bunker of his former boss, PM Boris Johnson. Admitting …
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Holding signs reading “Freedom is non-negotiable” and “No health passports,” the demonstrators gathered in the capital on Saturday. Billed by its organizers as the “biggest street party London has ever seen,” the rally drew thousands of participants unhappy with the lingering restrictions on gatherings and movement, and opposed to the …
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International journalism collective Lost in Europe revealed on Sunday that over 18,000 unaccompanied minors have gone missing since arriving in European countries from 2018 to 2020. Not only is that figure likely too low, as currently 17 EU Member States and the UK do not provide full data on these …
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As many as 10,000 people took to the city’s streets on Thursday, local paper Berliner Zeitung reported, with many banging pan lids as a form of noisy protest and call of attention. But the largely peaceful demonstrations later turned violent as crowds converged on an area near the Hermannplatz metro …
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Dramatic footage shared online shows the volcano’s enormous ash plumes, which have risen as high as 10 kilometers and travelled around six kilometers east from the island, according to the National Emergency Management Organisation. Volcanic ash has now begun to descend across the country, which has a population of 110,000, …
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Videos of Pacific herring covering Sakhalin’s south-western coastline were posted online on Sunday. What looks like thousands of fish, both moving and still, can be seen ashore, with excited men walking among them. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Дмитрий Лисицын (@lisitsyn_sakhalin) Local ecologist Dmitry Lisitsyn, who …
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In a report published earlier this week, Rystad Energy projected that at least 20% of the jobs in sectors such as drilling, operational support and maintenance could become automated by 2030. This could affect over 400,000 jobs in some key energy-producing countries, according to the firm. Rystad Energy’s calculations show …
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Around 5,000 mainly young people showed up at the forest park just south of Brussels on Thursday, for an event called “La Boum” (a reference to a 1980s French teen rom-com) even though it was obviously an April 1 prank. After using drones to repeatedly call on the partygoers to …
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After weeks of refusing all media access, the Biden administration finally allowed two AP journalists and a CBS crew to visit the US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) detention facility in Donna, Texas on Tuesday. Photos from this very facility were leaked over a week ago – both by a …
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