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18 dead in Myanmar protests
According to UN officials, at least 18 protestors have died in Myanmar due to a crackdown by security forces. Protestors took to the...

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Mar 3, 2021
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US Airstrike in Syria
President Joe Biden on Thursday ordered airstrikes on buildings in Syria that were used by Iranian-backed militias, in retaliation for...

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Mar 2, 2021
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President Joe Biden reverses green card ban
The President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, recently reversed the executive orders taken by previous President Donald...

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Feb 27, 2021
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Canada condemns treatment of Uighurs in China
The Canadian parliament passed a non-binding resolution calling the treatment of Uighurs by the Chinese government a “genocide”. The vote...

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Feb 26, 2021
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US attacks Iranian backed militant groups
The United States military carried out airstrikes in Eastern Syria on various infrastructure used by Iranian backed militia, including...

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Feb 26, 2021
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Boeing plane engine malfunctions
A Boeing 777-200 plane’s engine malfunctioned, forcing the plane to return to Denver International airport. The plane was part of the...

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Feb 23, 2021
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Japan appoints a "Minister of Loneliness"
With more suicide deaths than coronavirus deaths in 2019, Japan appointed a “Minister of Loneliness” to help citizens deal with mental...

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Feb 23, 2021
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Ebola virus detected in Guinea
The resurgence of the Ebola virus in Guinea has led to widespread panic among health authorities around the world. The presence of the...

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Feb 18, 2021
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Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh
A Bangladeshi island called Bhasan Char in the Bay of Bengal has been used recently to house the Rohingya Muslim Refugees from Myanmar....

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Feb 18, 2021
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Canada introduces new gun control legislation
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has introduced new gun control legislation that could allow cities to ban handguns, and...

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Feb 18, 2021
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Animals discovered deep beneath Antarctic ice shelves
Scientists recently drilled through 900 meters of ice in the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf, located in the southeastern Weddell sea. Very few...

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Feb 17, 2021
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'Toolkit' sparks controversy
Disha Ravi, a climate activist, was charged with sedition and criminal conspiracy and sent to five-day police custody on Sunday, after...

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Feb 17, 2021
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Trump acquitted by Senate
57 Senators, including 7 Republicans, voted to impeach Donald Trump, falling short of the 67 votes required. While many Republicans in...

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Feb 15, 2021
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Donald Trump's second impeachment
The second impeachment of Donald Trump kicked off with a vote in the House of Representatives, where 10 Republicans along with the...

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Feb 13, 2021
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IAEA detects Uranium in Iran
On the 8th of February, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), verified that 3.6g of uranium was being produced at Iran’s Fuel...

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Feb 12, 2021
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Angola decriminalises same-sex relationships
Same-sex relationships were made legal in Angola last Thursday. Previous to its decriminalisation, same-sex relationships were viewed as...

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Feb 11, 2021
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WHO concludes investigation of COVID-19 origin in China
After a 12-day visit to Wuhan in China to investigate the origins of the coronavirus, the team of the World Health Organisation on...

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Feb 11, 2021
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EU Vaccine Rollout Issues
The EU has ordered millions of doses of the UK-made AstraZeneca vaccine. However, the vaccine rollouts from AstraZeneca have contained...

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Feb 10, 2021
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India backs AstraZeneca & orders 10 million doses
India, on Tuesday, said that it has no concern over the safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine, and ordered 10 million new doses of it, after...

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Feb 10, 2021
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China censors Clubhouse
China finally got around to blocking Clubhouse, a relatively new social media app, which focused on audio chat rooms. The app allowed...

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Feb 10, 2021
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U.S. to rejoin Human Rights Council
The United States is set to rejoin the United Nations Human Rights Council, nearly three years after its departure in 2018. At the time,...

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Feb 8, 2021
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Glacier Disaster in Uttarakhand
Fifteen people have been confirmed dead and approximately 150 are still missing after a part of a Himalayan glacier burst in the Chamoli...

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Feb 8, 2021
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Schools allowed to reopen in West Bengal
West Bengal announced that schools will be allowed to reopen from the 12th of February as long as they follow and maintain required...

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Feb 5, 2021
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Farmer's Protest Tweet Battle
Fifty characters. That's all it took international pop sensation Rihanna to break trends on Twitter. Her tweet was a simple question...

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Feb 5, 2021
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Mumbai court grants bail to rape accused
In a bizarre incident, a special court in Bombay granted bail to a 25-year-old man who raped and impregnated a 16-year-old girl, after he...

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Feb 4, 2021
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Russian court find Navalny guilty
A court in Moscow sentenced Alexei Navalny, a major critic of Putin, to three and a half years in jail, stating that his jail time would...

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Feb 4, 2021
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Jeff Bezos steps down as CEO of Amazon
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com Inc, will be stepping down from his position and become executive chairman of the Amazon Board in the...

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Feb 4, 2021
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Spinach trained to send emails
With the help of nanotechnology, engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have managed to turn spinach into sensors...

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Feb 3, 2021
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Coup in Myanmar
The Myanmar military on February 1, 2021, staged a coup and declared a state of emergency in the country for one year. The state power...

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Feb 3, 2021
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Estonia breaks barriers
In the month when the United States of America has established its first female Vice President, Estonia will become the only country in...

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Feb 2, 2021
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Controversial statue of Gandhi ripped down
The 6-foot tall, bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi, in the Central Park of the City of Davis in northern California, was apparently sawed...

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Feb 2, 2021
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GM to transition to no emission cars
General Motors, the largest automaker in the US, has recently announced that it intends to no longer have the internal combustion engine...

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Feb 2, 2021
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Redditors cause stock market mayhem
This week saw one of the most bizarre stock price surges in history. Gamestop, a publicly traded company, saw a strange rise in stock...

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Jan 31, 2021
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Republic Day Violence
The ongoing farmers’ protests on the three agricultural laws, known as the Farm Bills, caused tremendous violence and infighting during...

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Jan 31, 2021
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The Tandav Contention
On January 27th the Supreme Court refused to pass an order which sought to provide interim protection to the makers and actors of the TV...

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Jan 30, 2021
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Elon Musk goes to trial with Tesla Critic
Randeep Hothi, a University of Michigan graduate student known as "@skabooshka" on Twitter, drew Musk's wrath two years ago after two...

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Jan 30, 2021
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Biden issues multiple Executive Orders
Newly sworn-in US President Joe Biden signed 15 executive orders from the Oval Office on the first day of his administration to undo his...

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Jan 28, 2021
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Child commits cybercrime and robs his father
Last week, a man in Ghaziabad was forced to pay 10 crores to an anonymous hacker threatening to circulate his inappropriate photos and...

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Jan 28, 2021
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Vaccination in Israel
Despite a surge in in COVID-19 cases and a new lockdown, Israel’s vaccination strategy seems to have promising results. Israel began...

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Jan 27, 2021
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Supreme Court issues a stay on new Farm Laws
On Tuesday, The Supreme Court of India issued a stay on the implementation of the three farm laws till further orders and decided to set...

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Jan 14, 2021
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Trump permanently banned from Twitter
After months of warnings from Twitter for going against community guidelines and spreading false information, Donald Trump’s Twitter...

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Jan 11, 2021
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Dzukou Valley Fire
For 10 days, aided by winds that keep changing direction and the dryness of winter afternoons, the forests of Dzukou Valley along the...

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Jan 11, 2021
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Boeing pays billions in settlement
Boeing agreed to pay 2.5 billion dollars as part of a settlement with the US Justice Department, due to the Boeing 737 Max controversy...

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Jan 11, 2021
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The Arrest of Faruqui
India has seen yet another case where a standup comedian has been arrested for passing "indecent comments" on Hindu deities and Union...

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Jan 9, 2021
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Elon Musk becomes the Richest Man on Earth
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk surpassed Jeff Bezos on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index owing to a 4.8% jump in Tesla's share price on...

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Jan 9, 2021
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Democrats take control of Senate
Democratic candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock won the recent Georgia runoff elections, making this the first time two Democratic...

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Jan 8, 2021
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FDA plans to approve Moderna for Emergency Use
The United States Food and Drug Administration's officials have stated that they plan on moving ahead with authorizing Moderna’s COVID-19...

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Jan 6, 2021
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Over 300 Nigerian Students Kidnapped
Boko Haram, a radical Islamic sect that believes in the abolition of Western practices from Nigeria, kidnapped a large group of...

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Jan 6, 2021
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Anfield Weeps
MBE Gerry Marsden, lead singer of the 1960s British group Gerry and the Pacemakers that had hits such as ‘Ferry Cross the Mersey’ and...

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Jan 5, 2021
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COVID-19 reaches Antarctica
Even Antarctica, a continent isolated from the rest of the world, couldn’t escape the clutches of the coronavirus. According to the...

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Jan 5, 2021
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