Sissi Hu is an assistant editor with Almost and is based in Spain.
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The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee has appointed Seiko Hashimoto as the new president, after Yoshiro Mori resigned last week due to sexist comments. View this post Continue Reading [https://www.almostmag.co/tokyo-new-olympics-chief-woman/]
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The 5,000-year-old brewery is the world’s oldest known beer factory.
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A massive fin whale carcass recovered off the coast of Sorrento in southern Italy is believed that this is one of the largest specimens ever to be discovered in the Mediterranean.
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People in Manaus, which is experiencing a collapsing health system and dwindling oxygen supplies, have started receiving vaccinations against the coronavirus.
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Images of Gui Yuna, a former paralympian with one leg at a bodybuilding competition in China have gone viral on social media.
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The stamp series is aimed at highlighting the importance of the country’s nature.
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People in Bali, who spent the first days of 2021 cleaning tons of trash that had washed up onto the famous Kuta Beach, were taken by surprise when they saw a woman dressed in a mermaid costume lying among the plastic waste on Monday Jan. 4.
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Switzerland marked a major step forward for LGBT rights on Friday Dec. 18, when lawmakers voted to legalize same-sex marriage and to simplify the procedures for transgender people to change their legal gender.
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The death of a nine-year-old girl in the UK has made legal history after a coroner’s court listed air pollution as one of the causes of death for the first time.
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People in Indonesia who don’t wear face masks and break coronavirus restrictions may now be forced to do push ups as punishment.
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Kenyan officials have announced that a beloved 100-year-old fig tree in Nairobi that was to be uprooted and moved for a new expressway will be saved and preserved as a national symbol of environmental conservation in the country.
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American pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced on Monday that a COVID-19 vaccine it is developing with Germany company BioNTech may be 90% effective, based on preliminary results.