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- Oklahoma Legislature Passes Bill Banning Almost All Abortions May 20, 2022The legislation prohibits abortion from the moment of fertilization and relies on lawsuits from private citizens to enforce it. If the governor signs the bill, it would be the nation’s strictest measure, and take effect immediately.
- After Campus Uproar, Princeton Proposes to Fire Tenured Professor May 20, 2022Joshua Katz says he was targeted because of his criticism of a campus protest group. A university report says the concerns are related to his inappropriate conduct with a female student.
- Kansas Supreme Court Allows Republican Voting Map to Stand May 19, 2022A lower court had declared the map an unconstitutional gerrymander. The ruling could cost Democrats a seat in Congress.
- She Wrote ‘How to Murder Your Husband.’ Did She Do It? May 19, 2022Prosecutors are building a follow-the-string murder case against a romance novelist. She says their real story is one about love.
- Thousands of Migrants Have Been Waiting for Months to Enter U.S. May 19, 2022People from around the world have been lingering on the border, awaiting the end of pandemic restrictions. Their fate remains one of the Biden administration’s biggest challenges on immigration.
- Census Miscounted the Population of 14 States, a Review Shows May 19, 2022The coronavirus pandemic, hurricanes and political attitudes might have contributed to an undercount in six states, mostly in the South. The census likely overcounted in eight others.
- Wesley Hunt’s Advice for the Republican Party: Update Your Look May 19, 2022Wesley Hunt, a Black Republican poised to win a seat in Congress this fall, thinks his party’s future is in more candidates like him.
- Bodies Pulled From Parched Lake Mead Stir Wise-Guy Ghosts of Las Vegas May 20, 2022As climate change fuels grim discoveries across the West, Las Vegas is awash in bets on the identity of a suspected murder victim dumped in a barrel.
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- Mozambique confirms first wild poliovirus case in 30 years May 19, 2022Case in child in Tete province follows detection of similar strain in Malawi in February, officials sayMozambique has identified its first case of wild polio in three decades following the genetic sequencing of a similar strain of the childhood disease in Malawi earlier this year.Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization’s regional director for Afri […]
- Widow of man killed in Libya accuses South Africa of ‘silence’ in hunt for his body May 19, 2022The South African government sent Anton Hammerl’s passport to his widow in 2016 but has refused to say how it came to have itThe widow of a British-based photographer who was murdered by Col Gaddafi’s forces in Libya in 2011 has accused South Africa of withholding crucial information about her husband’s death that could help in efforts to locate his body.Ant […]
- ‘Huge spike’ in global conflict caused record number of displacements in 2021 May 19, 2022Those fleeing combat were internally displaced 14.4m times, with biggest toll in sub-Saharan Africa, report revealsConflict and violence forced people from their homes a record number of times last year, a report has found, with sub-Saharan Africa bearing the brunt of mass internal displacement caused by “huge spikes” in fighting.People fleeing violence were […]
- ‘History repeating’: Amazon base in Cape Town splits Indigenous groups May 19, 2022Building work is quiet, for now, on £200m project that pits different visions of South Africa’s future against one anotherSmoke curls into the air, a drum beats, the dance begins, a chant is raised. Ten metres away, cars howl past on a busy road, drivers unaware of the sacred ritual taking place in the centre of a bustling South African city.Francisco Macken […]
- UN confirms death of one of last Rwandan genocide fugitives May 18, 2022Phénéas Munyarugarama is second person wanted for their involvement in 1994 mass killings to dieOne of the last five fugitives wanted for his role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, Phénéas Munyarugarama, died in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2002, UN prosecutors have announced.Munyarugarama, a local army commander, “died of natural causes” and was buried […]
- ‘I thought the UK was a good country’: Sudan massacre refugee faces removal to Rwanda May 18, 2022Mohammed is among first asylum seekers to face removal under Home Office’s controversial schemeIt took Mohammed more than three years and a journey of more than 5,000 miles to reach the UK after fleeing a massacre in his village in Sudan.Now, just over a week after arriving by kayak across the Channel, he is among the first tranche of asylum seekers facing f […]
- Doncaster and Milton Keynes among eight towns awarded city status May 20, 2022Stanley in Falkland Islands also becomes city after contest marking Queen’s platinum jubilee yearDoncaster, Milton Keynes and Stanley in the Falkland Islands have been awarded city status, approved by the Queen, in a competition being held as part of the platinum jubilee celebrations, the Cabinet Office has announced.The eight winners of the 2022 Platinum Ju […]
- Canada to ban Huawei and ZTE from 5G network, risking China tensions May 19, 2022Move brings Ottawa into line with intelligence allies that have excluded Chinese tech firms from cutting-edge phone networksCanada says it will ban Huawei and ZTE from the country’s 5G network, a move that puts it in line with intelligence-sharing allies, but risks further chilling relations with China.The federal government made the announcement on Thursday […]
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- Ukraine war: US fully backs Sweden and Finland Nato bids, Biden says May 20, 2022Both countries submitted their applications to be part of the Western defence alliance this week.
- Ukraine war: One Russian's anti-war protest on the side of his shopping centre May 19, 2022Dmitry Skurikhin has listed the Ukrainian towns attacked by Russia on the side of his shopping centre.
- North Korea: Fighting Covid with traditional medicine May 19, 2022As Covid spreads in North Korea, state media urges the use of traditional medicine against the virus.
- Former Afghanistan official apologises for his role in the fall of the country May 19, 2022Hamdullah Mohib fled the country along with the president the day the capital fell.
- Monkeypox cases investigated in Europe, US, Canada and Australia May 20, 2022Cases of the rare disease are now confirmed in four European countries, health authorities say.
- Australia election 2022: Cost of living worries voters May 19, 2022If interest rates keep rising 300,000 Australians may default on mortgage repayments.
- Canada to ban Huawei from its 5G networks May 20, 2022The UK, US, Australia and New Zealand have also barred the Chinese telecoms equipment makers.
- Argentina found guilty of massacre of Qom and Moqoit people May 20, 2022A landmark court case orders historical reparations for the killing of more than 400 people in 1924.
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