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The CDP Awards: rewarding cities and businesses taking on the environment and biodiversity challenge
The 2023 CDP awards have been made in Paris at the Louis Vuitton Foundation. The CDP is the non-profit organisation that runs the world’s environmental reporting system. According to their latest reports, only 5% of…
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Ukraine war: At least six people killed in wave of Russian missile attacks across the country
Russia unleashed a massive missile barrage on cities across Ukraine early Thursday, killing at least six people and targeting energy infrastructure facilities in the first attack on such a scale in three weeks. Five people…
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Who are the most wanted mobsters in Italy?
This Thursday, the trial of Sicilian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro begins. Detained in Palermo last January after being on the run for 30 years, the capture of one of the country’s most notorious criminals…
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Hiding in plain sight: Why are wanted Sicilian mafia bosses often found so close to home?
Matteo Messina Denaro, the “Last Godfather” is meant to appear before a court in L’Aquila on Thursday, where he’s appealing a life sentence over the 1992 murder of a mafia prosecutor. His arrest, thirty years…
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What is kickingball and why is it played in Spain?
Kickingball, a mixture of football and baseball is experiencing a surge in popularity amongst Venezuelan refugees around the world, specifically in Spain, Argentina and the US. The sport is played exclusively by women in Venezuela…
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A Cuban fishing village ponders its options as U.S. policy shifts
By Alexandre Meneghini and Dave Sherwood ISABELA DE SAGUA, Cuba – At a porchfront coffee stand in the Cuban village of Isabela de Sagua, sunburned fishermen gather at first light to talk of wind, tide…
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Olympics-Russians will win ‘medals of blood’ if allowed to compete, says Ukraine’s Usyk
– Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk urged the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ban Russia from the Olympic Games, saying any medals they win in Paris next year would be tainted by the blood of his…
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Nearly 300,000 displaced by Syria quake – state media
BEIRUT – More than 298,000 people have been forced to leave their homes due to this week’s deadly earthquake, Syrian state media reported, in an apparent reference to the parts of Syria under government control,…
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Libyan military committee agrees coordination on foreign forces departure
TUNIS -Libya’s “5+5″ military committee of officers from both main sides of the civil war has agreed on a coordination mechanism for the withdrawal of foreign forces in liaison with neighbouring Sudan and Niger, the…
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Zelenskiy to ask EU summit for more arms and quick accession – Ukrainian official
By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will ask a summit of European Union leaders on Thursday for more arms to fight Russia and powering ahead with Kyiv’s bid to join the EU, a…
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