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Iran’s Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri announced the abolition of the country’s morality police. For the last few years, protests against the hijab have been gaining traction in Iran
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Brazilian football legend Pele said on December 3 that he feels "strong, with a lot of hope" despite medical problems that have kept the 82-year-old sports icon in the hospital with a respiratory infection.
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Local authorities across China have begun a slow rollback of the restrictions that have governed daily life for years, encouraged by the central government's orders for a new approach to fighting the coronavirus.
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The Group of Twenty is the premier forum for international economic cooperation, made up of 19 countries and the European Union, representing the world’s major developed and emerging economies.
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Jiang Zemin died of leukaemia and multiple organ failure in Shanghai, where he was a former mayor and Communist Party secretary
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Pakistani Taliban, who recently ended a ceasefire with the government, in claimed responsibility for the bombing which also left 23 people injured
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The six-month mission, commanded by Fei Junlong and crewed by Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu, will be the last in the station’s construction phase, according to the China Manned Space Agency. The station’s third and final module docked with the station earlier this month, one of the last steps in China’s effort to maintain a constant crewed presence in orbit.
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As many as 770,000 Indian students went abroad for higher education in 2019 and the number is estimated to grow to roughly 1.8 million by 2024
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The 1.2 million visitors expected during the World Cup in energy-rich Qatar can sample the daily life of the 350,000 residents through a variety of tourist attractions and everyday activities.
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Waves of orange, glowing lava and smoky ash erupted from the Mauna Loa volcano and people living on Big Island have to be ready in the event of a worst-case scenario
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China's major cities of Beijing and Shanghai were blanketed with security on November 29 in the wake of nationwide rallies calling for political freedoms and an end to Covid lockdowns. The country's leadership is facing a wave of protest not seen in decades, fuelled by anger over the unrelenting lockdowns as well as deep-rooted frustrations over China's political direction.
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The protests have been fuelled by frustration at the government's zero-Covid policy, which sees authorities impose snap lockdowns, lengthy quarantines.
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Anger has been growing against the coronavirus restrictions after 10 people were killed in a fire in Urumqi. Protests are also a test of the zero-Covid policy as China sees a record spike in infections
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Some highlights from the football matches of the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar
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Most killings of women and girls are gender motivated. On average more than 5 women are killed every hour by someone in their own family.
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The company that assembles Apple Inc.'s iPhones apologized on November 24 for what it said was a technical error that led to protests by employees over the payment of wages offered to work in a factory that is under anti-virus restrictions.
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Gun attacks in grocery stores in America have become increasingly common in recent years. A teenage gunman killed 10 people, most of them Black, at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York in May. Last year a shooting at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado also left 10 dead.
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Over 35 to 40 minutes, officers found multiple dead people and injured people in the store and put rescue and tactical teams together to go inside and provide life-saving measures, the spokesman said.
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The ten most expensive natural disasters of the last decade took place over the last five years.
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More heavy equipment reached the hardest-hit city of Cianjur in the country's most densely populated province of West Java, where the magnitude 5.6 land-based quake struck on November 21
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The US News and World Report released its annual ranking of the best national universities. A total of 1500 colleges across various categories were ranked based on 17 metrics. Princeton University topped the ranking list.
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Trump's Twitter account began accumulating followers after the ban was lifted, and had nearly 100,000 followers by 10 pm ET on November 19.
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Naomi Biden announced her wedding plans in September on her Instagram account, which features photos of vacations, the Biden clan and her day-to-day life. Biden is very close to his grandchildren, who call him Pop and are often seen with him, even at some official events.
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Football is not only about watching the world's greatest players compete on the biggest stage. It transcends the elite level and is really the people's game
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The Group of Twenty—19 countries and the European Union—accounts for 85% of the world's economy, 75% of its trade and 66% of its population
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NASA's new moon rocket blasted off on its debut flight with three test dummies aboard on November 16, bringing the U.S. a big step closer to putting astronauts back on the lunar surface for the first time since the end of the Apollo program 50 years ago.
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Horse racing has a long history on San Andres and its sister island of Providencia despite their small populations — about 60,000 combined — and distance from the mainland, about 700 kilometers (435 miles) away.
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PM Modi presented gifts to the world leaders which reflect India’s rich culture and diversity comprising traditional crafts manifested in the ubiquitous household products crafted with ingenuity from local leaders.
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Taking the gavel from Indonesian President Joko Widodo, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India would attempt "to take Indonesia's commendable initiatives forward".
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Former United States president Donald Trump has announced his presidential bid for 2024. A look at some of the many controversies that dogged his time in the White House.
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The 32-story tall Space Launch System (SLS) blasted off from the storied Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 01:47 am (0647 GMT). "We are going," tweeted the space agency.
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Each world leader planted a single tree before using a shovel to move the earth over the roots before touring the rest of the mangrove
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The U.N.'s Day of 8 Billion milestone on November 15 is more symbolic than precise, officials are careful to note in a wide-ranging report released over the summer that makes some staggering projections. The upward trend threatens to leave even more people in developing countries further behind, as governments struggle to provide enough classrooms and jobs for a rapidly growing number of youth, and food insecurity becomes an even more urgent problem.
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Residents gathered in Kherson's main square in front of the administration building that until recently was occupied by Russian forces, waving and draped in Ukrainian flags. President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the southern city to celebrate its recapture from Russian forces.
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Activists, some of them dressed in traditional attires, are demanding that the industrialised nations pay for the destruction caused by climate change. The success of the summit will hinge on the progress made on climate change financing
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The summit’s official focus is financial stability, health, sustainable energy, and digital transformation, but tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have complicated host Indonesia’s efforts to build consensus to tackle those topics.
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At the end of the two-day summit, Indonesia's President Joko Widodo will hand over the G20 presidency to India. India will officially assume the presidency from December 1
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According to the United Nations report, world population is set to reach 8 billion on 15 November. A look at how the world population has grown since 1950, key trends and factors…
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Seventeen world leaders -- barring Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the leaders of Mexico and Brazil -- will seek solutions to myriad global crises on the Muslim-majority country's mostly Hindu "Island of Gods".
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The reopening of Bali's airport to international flights and now the thousands coming for the G-20 summit and other related events have raised hopes for a stronger turnaround. More than 1.5 million foreign tourists and 3.1 domestic travellers had visited Bali as of October this year
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At a Kabul amusement park containing rides such as bumper cars and a Ferris wheel, Reuters witnesses observed several women being turned away by park officials, with Taliban agents present observing the situation.
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Environmental activist Modou Fall wears the plastic problem on his sleeve and more. The “Plastic Man” moves around wearing strands and chunks of plastic to draw attention to the risk the hazardous material poses to waterways, beaches and animal life
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Doñana’s Santa Olalla lagoon was the biggest of the handful of lagoons that maintained some water year-round, providing a summer reservoir of aquatic plants and animals, but now it has been reduced to a fetid brown splotch
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Last eight years have been the eight warmest on record. Here's an insight on how severe is the crisis which the world is battling.
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Pakistan stay in contention for the T20 World Cup semi-finals after beating South Africa by 33 runs in a rain-affected match on November 3
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In the American West — a region with no shortage of other-worldly landscapes — this crystalline expanse near the Utah-Nevada line is an awe-striking natural wonder. The area is what's leftover from Lake Bonneville, a prehistoric body of water that filled after the Ice Age, thousands of years ago.
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Thousands of supporters of Jair Bolsonaro called on Brazil's military on November 2 to keep the far-right leader in power after he lost a cliffhanger to leftist rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
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Days after taking over Twitter and a week before the U.S. midterm elections, billionaire Elon Musk has positioned himself as moderator-in-chief of one of the most important social media platforms in American politics. On October 28, 2022, Billionaire Elon Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion and decides to privatize it.
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A huge grinning Totoro and other whimsical exhibits welcomed visitors to Japan's new Ghibli theme park as three of its five sections opened to the public on November 1.
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Doc McStuffins and Vampirina, Daniel Tiger, Donkey Hodie, Alma, and Xavier Riddle, and Darth Vader strolled through the White House for the Halloween festivities
