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Over the years cryptocurrency ownership has increased around the world. A report released by crypto exchange firm Gemini looks at how people are adopting cryptocurrency.
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Images from fifty days of fighting in Ukraine after Russia launched an all-out invasion by land, air and sea, the biggest attack by one state against another in Europe since World War Two.
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Good Friday, one of the most major religious days, is observed by Christians across the world. The Friday before Easter is the Christian holy day commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus. This year the Holy Friday is observed on April 15.
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What happens to your social media accounts after you are gone? A look at popular platforms, their rules and policies regarding users who are deceased.
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Sri Lankans shared milk rice and oil cakes to celebrate their traditional new year on April 14 opposite President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s office, where they camped out for a sixth day demanding his resignation over the worst economic crisis in memory.
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Shells and bombs that rained down on Chernihiv, a northern Ukrainian city, for weeks have reduced its buildings and neighbourhoods to rubble.
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US citizen can now select an 'X' as their gender marker on their passport application. This means that Americans identifying as transgender will be able to choose "X" on applications, regardless of the gender shown on their birth certificates or other previous official documents. Is the United States the first country to issue gender-neutral passports? Take a look.
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As Russia gears up for a major offensive in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, Ukrainians took stock on April 12 of the death and destruction the war has wrought.
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Some residents of Shanghai were allowed out of their homes as the city of 25 million eased a two-week-old shutdown on April 12 after a video posted online showed what was said to be people who ran out of food breaking into a supermarket.
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Chile on April 11 announced a plan to ration water for the capital of Santiago, a city of nearly 6 million. The plan features a four-tier alert system that goes from green to red.
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The gruesome task of exhuming the bodies of Ukrainian victims from mass graves in Bucha on the outskirts of Kyiv was underway on April 11.
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The fourth India-US '2+2' dialogue in Washington was led by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on the Indian side and their US counterparts, Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony J Blinken.
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Pakistan's parliament chose a more Western-friendly politician, Shehbaz Sharif, as prime minister on April 11, completing the ousting of predecessor Imran Khan in a political crisis that has sparked street protests and a mass resignation of lawmakers.
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Faith and grim determination are reflected in the April 10 images from Ukraine, ever since Russia’s full-invasion on February 24. For many, this is what survival looks like: maneuvering around an impact crater, searching through buildings turned inside-out, saying goodbye.
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The manufacturing hub of Guangzhou closed itself to most arrivals from April 11 as China battles a major COVID-19 surge in its big eastern cities.
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Shehbaz Sharif was set on April 11 to become Pakistan's new prime minister, but the country still faces months of political crisis with ousted premier Imran Khan vowing disruption from the wings. Khan was dismissed on April 10 after losing a no-confidence vote, paving the way for an opposition alliance that faces the same issues that bedevilled the cricket star-turned-politician.
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The first fully private mission to the International Space Station blasted off from Florida on April 8 with a four-member crew from startup company Axiom Space. NASA has hailed the three-way partnership with Axiom and SpaceX as a key step towards commercializing the region of space known as "Low Earth Orbit," leaving the agency to focus on more ambitious voyages deeper into the cosmos.
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The 36th Forbes Annual World Billionaires list is out and after four years of Jeff Bezos’s topping Forbes’ annual list of we have a new number one, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. After the pandemic, war and slow markets hits the world’s billionaires, there are 2,668 of them who made their place in Forbes richest people in the world in 2022, who are worth a collective $12.7 trillion. America still leads the world, with 735 billionaires worth a collective $4.7 trillion. Let’s take a look at Forbes world billionaires list 2022 and their net worth as of March 11, 2022.
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The "Youseum" in Stockholm has no works of art on its walls. Instead its brightly-decorated rooms are meant to serve as fun backgrounds for visitors' selfies or videos.
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Fourteen sketches smuggled out of Myanmar's Insein Prison and interviews with eight former prisoners offer a rare glimpse inside the country's most notorious jail, where thousands of political prisoners have been sent since last year's military coup and communication with the outside world is sharply limited
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In response to the Russia’s war on Ukraine, the United States has announced latest round of sanctions on Russia which includes two new targets – Katerina Tikhonova and Maria Vorontsova – two adult daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s with his former wife Lyudmila Shkrebneva, who U.S. officials believe are hiding Putin’s wealth.
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Reports suggest that XE may be more contagious than Omicron but there no evidence that it causes more severe disease
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Dozens of body bags containing the remains of civilians killed by Russian occupying forces in the Ukrainian town of Bucha lay in rows on April 6 on the edge of a cemetery, as authorities worked to identify the victims of unspeakable atrocities. Ukraine on April 7 appealed to NATO for more weapons in its fight against Russia to help prevent further atrocities like those reported in Bucha, and urged Germany to slash red tape so that more supplies can get in.
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Paris-based graffiti legend C215 puts the final touches on a blue and yellow portrait of a young girl on a Kyiv bus shelter, a colourful contrast with the badly damaged buildings nearby.
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Shanghai remains under complete lockdown to fight China’s latest outbreak, now well into the second week of what originally was publicised as a two-stage measure lasting just eight days. Following a uproar on parents being separated from their infected children, a top city health commission inspector on April 6 said parents who “fully comprehend the health risks” and sign an agreement will be permitted to accompany their children in monitoring facilities.
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Zelensky, in an impassioned speech by videolink from Kyiv to the 15-member Security Council, demanded stronger action as he delivered a chilling account of Putin's six-week-old war.
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There was a time when Sri Lanka’s economy showed robust growth, now it’s teetering on the verge of collapse. All within a few years! How did Sri Lanka get here? What went wrong? Let’s understand…
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky will address the UN Security Council on April 5, where he is expected to demand tough new sanctions on Moscow over killings in the town of Bucha that he has called "war crimes" and "genocide".
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Peruvian President Pedro Castillo announced a curfew for April 5 for the capital Lima and neighbouring port city Callao following a demonstration that caused roadblocks and "acts of violence".
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As Sri Lanka faces an unprecedented economic crisis, the soaring cost of living burns hole in Sri Lankan’s pockets. In Sri Lanka, overall rate of inflation for February 2022, as measured by National Consumer Price Index (NCPI), stood at 17.5 percent – the highest since 2015.
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Sri Lanka’s president asked opposition parties to form a unity government on April 4 after his Cabinet resigned amid public protests over the country’s worst economic crisis in memory and deepening mistrust in his leadership. All 26 ministers of the Rajapaksa government handed in their resignations Sunday night after thousands of people held street protests denouncing the government despite a countrywide state of emergency and a curfew.
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Bodies wrapped in black tarp lie in a mass grave on the outskirts of Kyiv as Ukrainian troops assess the destruction after Russian troops withdrew from the area.
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The two KT-1 aircraft, South Korea’s first indigenously developed planes, were on a training mission when they collided and crashed near an air force base in Sacheon
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Let's take a look at some of the most memorable images taken in March 2022.
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People across Japan are celebrating the peak cherry blossom viewing season this week without COVID-19 restrictions in place for the first time in two years. But many are limiting their viewing to strolling under the trees rather than drinking and eating in the traditional party style.
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A strong geomagnetic storm is set to hit Earth on March 31, triggering auroras that would likely be brighter and visible farther away from Earth’s poles. A look at how solar storms lead to these dazzling display of lights on Earth.
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Deltacron, the new variant of coronavirus is a hybrid of Delta and Omicron i.e. it contains the elements of both variants.
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A Vietnamese father has spent hundreds of hours and invested thousands converting an old van into a wooden tank for his son -- an unusual hobby in a country once ravaged by war.
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Authorities in some parts of Shanghai were forced to bring forward the restrictions as new COVID-19 cases in China's financial hub jumped by a third
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Trees bloom in springtime around the world.
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On March 21, a China Eastern flight carrying 132 people plunged a terrifying 26,000 feet in 95 seconds, baffling crash experts and shocking the world. Even those who don’t suffer from fear of flying have probably considered the possibility of dying in a plane crash.
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A 16-meter-high bronze monument to Taras Shevchenko, a national hero in Ukraine, survived World War II. Ukrainians have shielded it with countless layers of sandbags in hopes it also will survive Russian attacks.
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Brussels, Europe’s diplomatic capital is hosting an emergency NATO summit as well as a gathering of the Group of Seven industrialised nations and a summit of the 27 members of the European Union.
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As China widens search for the second black box from the crashed Boeing jet to know the cause of the accident, we tell you why the equipment is so important
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NASA's massive new rocket began its first journey to a launchpad on March 17 ahead of a battery of tests that will clear it to blast off to the Moon this summer. It left the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building around 5:47 pm Eastern Time (2147 GMT) and began an 11-hour journey on a crawler-transporter to the hallowed Launch Complex 39B, four miles (6.5 kilometers) away.
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Past a set of barricades, a road is cordoned off with large concrete blocks, with the French national motto "Liberty, equality, fraternity" written in French in yellow and blue, the colours of Ukraine's flag.
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Pakistan's lorries are renowned for 'truck art', candy-coloured murals depicting South Asian animals, celebrities and religious icons. The tradition transforms the highways and cities into kaleidoscopic processions.
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Hong Kong has been brought to its knees by the omicron variant as an overwhelmed health system has left the sick to fend for themselves. After keeping the virus mostly at bay, now about half of the city’s population has been infected
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As Ukraine repeatedly urges NATO to impose a no-fly zone over its skies to prevent Russia from using air power, officials and experts warn that it could spark a direct conflict with Russia – a nuclear-armed power. A look at what a no-fly zone is, whether it has been implemented in the past, and dangers of imposing it over Ukraine.
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On February 24, Russia launched an-out full invasion of Ukraine from land, sea and air, the largest military assault by one European state on another since World War Two. Russia shifted from strategic strikes against military targets using cruise missiles to a stalled ground attack and, currently, a broader siege of major cities, including bombardments using rocket artillery and cluster munitions, sometimes against residential buildings and civilian infrastructure. The United States and European nations have supplied Ukraine with a variety of hardware, including advanced weapons. Let’s take a look at some of the weapons being used in Russia’s war against Ukraine.
