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The Tokyo Olympics has announced that international spectators will not be allowed into Japan for this summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the organizers said in a statement on Saturday Mar. 20.
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Yo-Yo Ma, world-famous cellist, put on a surprise concert in the waiting room after he received the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, revealed in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that she contemplated suicide while serving as a senior member of the royal family.
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Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has received his first does the coronavirus vaccine. He urges others to take the shot.
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Tamayo Marukawa, Japan’s gender equality minister and its new Olympics minister, has joined a group of lawmakers in opposing changing the law to allow women to keep their surnames after marriage.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have announced they are expecting a second child, a younger sibling for their 19-month-old son, Archie.
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People in Argentina are demanding justice after Úrsula Bahillo, an 18-year-old woman, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend who she had filed several complaints against previously.
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Yoshiro Mori, who is also a former prime minister, has resigned more than a week after he faced widespread criticism for saying women can’t stop talking in meetings.
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Loujain al-Hathloul, a prominent Saudi women’s rights activist who was jailed after campaigning for an end to the ban on women driving in the country, has been released after 1,001 days in prison, her family said.
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Rawiri Waititi, the co-leader of New Zealand’s Maori Party, wore a hei-tiki, a traditional Māori pendant to the parliament, and was ejected.
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French Sister Nathalie Becquart will have voting rights in the synod, which will allow her to help make key decisions in the Catholic Church.
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Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets across Myanmar in some of the largest protests the country has seen in more than a decade.