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By AFPThe European Parliament approved new data-sharing rules Thursday that clamp down on illegal short-term rentals to protect the residents of European cities -- many of whom face shortages of affordable housing.The spread of short-term tourist let...
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By AFPIsraeli forces shot dead 104 people when a crowd rushed towards aid trucks on Thursday, the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said, in one of the worst single incidents of a nearly five-month war.More than 750 people were also hurt in the incid...
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By AFPMarilina Barreca has two grim options: feed her cows tainted fodder or set them to graze on barren hillsides as Sicily battles a crop-devastating drought which is sucking reservoirs dry.Regional authorities in the southern Italian island declar...
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By AFPRules making the EU's border and coastguard agency Frontex dependent on national authorities must change to avoid a repeat of a migrant ship tragedy off Greece last year that cost some 600 lives, an official probe concluded on Wednesday."Fronte...
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By AFPGhana's parliament voted to pass a controversial bill to severely restrict LGBTQ rights on Wednesday in a move condemned by activists.The bill still has to be validated by the president before becoming law, which observers believe is unlikely b...
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By AFPUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday he will travel to South Korea next month as it holds the Summit for Democracy, a signature initiative of President Joe Biden.Meeting his South Korean counterpart in Washington, Blinken said th...
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By AFPDriven by a desire to squelch critical voices, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega and his entourage have committed systematic human rights violations "tantamount to crimes against humanity," a group of UN-mandated experts said Thursday.In a re...
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By AFPThe world generated 2.3 billion tonnes of municipal waste last year and the pile of trash is set to grow another two-thirds by 2050, the UN said Wednesday, warning of devastating costs for health, economies and the environment.Pollution is set...
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By AFPG20 finance ministers will meet Wednesday in Brazil, seeking ways to shore up a global economy whose nascent recovery is threatened by a raft of conflicts and crises, including the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.The Ukraine war could take center stag...
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By AFPA new truck arrives in the South Sudanese town of Renk, packed with dozens of elderly men, women and children, their exhausted faces betraying the strain of their traumatic journey out of war-ravaged Sudan.They are among more than half a millio...
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By AFPFamine is "imminent" in northern Gaza, where no humanitarian group has been able to provide aid since January 23, the World Food Programme warned Tuesday, as Israel wages war on Palestinian militant group Hamas.With a dire humanitarian emergenc...
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By AFPJoe Biden scored an easy win in Michigan's presidential primary Tuesday but was dealt a stinging rebuke over the war in Gaza in an Arab American-led protest that raised concerns over his bid to win the swing state in November's election.There w...
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