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Facebook's announcement that it is changing its name to Meta has caused quite the stir in Israel where the word sounds like the Hebrew word for "dead". To be precise, Meta is pronounced like the feminine form of the Hebrew word. A…
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Tongans have been rushing to vaccinate themselves against coronavirus after the Pacific island nation confirmed its first case on Friday. The infection was detected in a fully vaccinated person who had arrived on a repatriation flight…
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I feel like "a human being for the first time" in my life, a gay Afghan man has said after arriving in the UK with 28 others from the LGBT community. The man - who the BBC is not naming for safety reasons - fled Afghanistan, fearing for…
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"I've seen more images of dead people in the past three weeks than I've seen in my entire life," a Facebook researcher in India wrote in 2019 after following recommendations by the social network's algorithms for three weeks. The…
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In 2017, when Mako, then a Japanese princess, announced her engagement to a former classmate, Kei Komuro, she said he had won over her heart with "his bright smiles like the sun". The two had met five years earlier when they were both…
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One person has been killed and three others injured in a bomb attack in Uganda’s capital, Kampala. The explosion happened at a bar on Saturday night, killing a 20-year-old waitress and scattering panicked revellers on to the street…
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The officials told the AP the detained included Industry Minister Ibrahim al-Sheikh, Information Minister Hamza Baloul, Mohammed al-Fiky Suliman, member of the ruling Sovereign Council, and Faisal Mohammed Saleh, a media adviser to the…
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Colombia’s most-wanted drug trafficker and the leader of the country’s largest criminal gang has been captured. Dairo Antonio Úsuga, better known as Otoniel, was seized after a joint operation by the army, air force and police on…
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An event introducing a newly appointed Iranian governor was dramatically interrupted Saturday after a man walked on stage and slapped him in the face. Zeinolabedin Khorram, the new governor of East Azerbaijan province, was on stage…
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Dr Jazmin Scarlett, a student in volcanology, had been excited to embark on a career in academic research. She believed she was well placed to get job offers given she has a distinction in her masters and is a recipient of the prestigious…
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