Wendy Chuang is a reporter and producer with Almost and is based in Austin, Texas.
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At least 212 people have been killed and more than 2,500 people arrested in South Africa after days of violent riots and looting sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma.
Cute
Calvin Krause told Almost he came up with the idea while browsing YouTube and didn’t expect to go viral.
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In the lead up and aftermath of England’s loss to Italy in the Euro 2020 final match, England football fans trashed parts of London and Black England players Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho, and Bukayo Saka, who failed to score the penalty kick, became targets of racist abuse on social media.
LGBTQ
A pride march in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi was canceled to protect participants from violent far-right and anti-LGBTQ protesters.
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Mary Simon, an Inuk leader, has been appointed as Canada’s 30th Governor General, becoming the first Indigenous person to take on the role.
Climate
An underwater gas leak ignited a swirling fire in the Gulf of Mexico, which lasted for more than five hours.
Video
An Italian hospital has performed a CT scan on an Egyptian mummy to identify what he looked like, how he lived and how he died.
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Myanmar’s government has freed more than 2,200 people it detained in anti-coup protests, including journalists and protesters who have been held for months.
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People in Gibraltar voted in a referendum on Thursday Jun. 24 to ease the country’s harsh ban on abortion.
Featured
An indigenous group in Canada, Cowessess First Nation, said they had discovered an estimated 751 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school in in Saskatchewan to assimilate indigenous children.
Activism
Samar Badawi and Nassima al-Sadah, two prominent Saudi women’s rights activists detained nearly three years ago, have been freed after completing their sentencest, Saudi rights group ALQST said.
Activism
After the UEFA rejected a request by Munich to illuminate its stadium in rainbow colors, soccer fans filled the stadium with rainbow flags during the match between Germany and Hungary to protest Hungary’s new anti-LGBT law.