Opinion – Mexico shamefully joins Russia, Venezuela in backing Cuba’s dictatorship For 30 years, the Soviet Union was the main supporter of Cuba’s communist dictatorship, […]
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Instagram and Irn-Bru: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez takes the world inside COP26
The congresswoman’s visit to the UN climate summit is bringing some welcome transparency to the negotiations. AOC is proving a hit among the locals in […]
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Future proof: How Scotch distilleries are crafting whisky for tomorrow’s world
Scotland and whisky are such an iconic duo that they spawned their own moniker. Here’s how distillers of Scotch are preserving its heritage with one […]
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John Kerry: COP26 is creating ‘more climate ambition than the world has ever seen’
The US climate envoy says he’s heading to the Glasgow summit as an “optimist.” John Kerry, the US special envoy for climate, calls COP26 the […]
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World Trade Center ‘surfer’ struggles to comprehend his survival 20 years later
As one of only two people who survived 9/11 by surfing down the Twin Towers collapse, Pasquale Buzzelli has a mixture of survivor’s guilt and […]
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Stone Temple Pilots on critical breakthrough ‘Tiny Music’: ‘People in this world catching on to what we did — that’s pretty amazing’
“I don’t think we ever made records for critics; that wasn’t our whole point of doing what we were doing. We were trying to make […]
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Rising prices in the U.S. might trigger big problems in the developing world
A boy in Nairobi steps across a flooded area next to a mural with words in Swahili advising people to protect themselves from the coronavirus […]
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U.S. Olympic Trials: Sydney McLaughlin smashes 400m hurdles world record, JuVaughn Harrison wins historic double
There is a historic heatwave gripping the Pacific Northwest, and with the air temperature reading 108 degrees and the temperature on the track around 140 […]
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McLaughlin demolishes world record in 400-meter hurdles
US Track Trials Athletics Sydney McLaughlin reacts after setting a new world record in the finals of the women’s 400-meter hurdles at the U.S. Olympic […]
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COVID vaccines might stop a ‘4th wave’ in the U.S. But the rest of the world isn’t so lucky.
You wouldn’t know it by following the news from the United States, where daily COVID-19 cases have fallen by 80 percent over the last 10 weeks — […]
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Covid: Biden calls 500,000 death toll ‘a grim milestone’
President Joe Biden addressed the nation as the US marks 500,000 deaths from Covid, the most for any country in the world. “As a nation, […]
