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ABUJA - UNESCO on Wednesday (15) added 20 new sites in 21 countries to its global network of biosphere reserves, the UN agency's designation for specially protected regions. New biosphere reserves are designated each year to promote…
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By Stephen Castle and Mark Landler LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson began a long-anticipated shake-up of his Cabinet on Wednesday (15), reassigning his foreign secretary and several other ministers in a move designed to revitalize a…
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LONDON - Responding to reports that Sri Lanka’s State Minister for Prison Management and Prisoners Rehabilitation, Lohan Ratwatte, forcibly entered a State prison in Anuradhapura on September 12 and held Tamil prison inmates incarcerated…
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COLOMBO - Sri Lanka’s new central bank governor said he will soon unveil a roadmap to ensure economic and financial stability as the nation faces depleted foreign exchange reserves and looming debt payments. “The central bank's first and…
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COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's prisons minister stepped down Wednesday (15) over allegations he tried to force a confession from a Tamil inmate at gunpoint, and drunkenly threatened to execute others. Lohan Ratwatte's resignation letter did not…
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By Katherine Kornei There’s probably a large space rock out there, somewhere, that has Earth in its crosshairs. Scientists have, in fact, spotted one candidate: Bennu, which has a small chance of banging into our planet in the year 2182.…
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By Arthur Lubow NEW YORK — A little-known but crucial agent of carbon removal from the atmosphere — the siphonophore, which lives in what is known as the twilight zone of the sea — will be highlighted during UN Climate Week in a video…
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By Hannah Beech The Myanmar soldiers attacked the village of Yay Shin, deep in the furrows of the Himalayan foothills, just after dusk, descending with flamethrowers and heavy weaponry. Clutching ageing AK-47s smuggled from India and…
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By Zolan Kanno Youngs and Jim Tankersley ARVADA, Colo. — President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday (14) that the United States had only a decade left to confront a global climate crisis, using his second day touring a wildfire-ravaged West to…
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By Maria Abi Habib and Anatoly Kurmanaev PORT-AU-PRINCE — Haiti’s chief prosecutor said on Tuesday (14) that there was evidence linking the acting prime minister to the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, and prohibited him from…
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