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Politics
Peru’s interim president, Manuel Merino, has resigned after five days in office. He made the announcement on Sunday Nov. 15, after days of nationwide protests against the impeachment of the popular president Martín Vizcarra on Monday Nov. 9.
Politics
Ethnic Armenian villagers in Kalbajar district in Azerbaijan burnt down their homes this week before fleeing to Armenia on Sunday Nov. 15, when Azerbaijan was scheduled to take control of the region as part of a ceasefire agreement.
world
Egyptian officials have unveiled more than 100 coffins, some with mummies inside, and about 40 gilded statues that they estimate are 2,500 years old.
Impact
Bangladesh has opened its first school for trans people in the capital, Dhaka.
Politics
All of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy lawmakers have resigned en masse after the government disqualified four of them.
Women
Police in Cancún, Mexico, have caused outrage after they opened fire during a protest women held against femicide on Monday evening, sparking further protests against police brutality as well as gender-violence in the following days.
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People are criticizing Australian prime minister Scott Morrison after he interrupted a woman MP while she was answering a question about the culture for women in politics.
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Denmark, one of the world’s major exporters in mink furs, has begun culling all of its 17 million mink after more than 200 people became infected with a mutated form of the coronavirus that came from mink.
Activism
Nasrin Sotoudeh, one of Iran’s most prominent human rights lawyers, has been temporarily released, according to the judiciary’s news agency.
Video
Schmidt Ocean Institute has discovered the first massive detached coral reef in 120 years in the Great Barrier Reef last Monday.
Politics
Hashim Thaçi, Kosovo’s president, has resigned to face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the war for independence from Serbia between 1998 and 1999.
Activism
More than 100 pilot whales that became stranded on a beach in Sri Lanka have been rescued and returned to sea.