Women
This Deaf Brazilian Teen Who Had Her Limbs Amputated Is Training To Swim At The Paralympics
Meet Jessica Oliveira, a Brazilian para-athlete swimmer, who also known as “Jessyborg, The Robot Girl”.
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This Belarus Activist Stabbed Himself In Court, Saying He Was Tortured And Pressured To Plead Guilty
A Belarusian opposition activist stabbed himself in the throat with a pen in the middle of a court hearing, saying investigators had pressured him to plead guilty by threatening to prosecute his family and friends.
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Naomi Osaka Quit The French Open After Being Fined For Not Speaking To Press For Her Mental Health
World No. 2 tennis champion Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from the French Open, a day after she was fined $15,000 by the grand slam for opting to skip the mandatory post-match press conference.
Climate
A Cargo Ship Has Been Burning For Days Off Sri Lanka’s Coast, Causing A Massive Environmental Disaster
A container ship carrying chemicals has been burning off Sri Lanka’s coast for more than 10 days, spilling tons of microplastics across the beaches and killing marine life, becoming the country’s worst ever environmental disaster.
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215 Indigenous Children’s Remains Have Been Found At A Former School To Assimilate Them In Canada
A mass grave containing the remains of 215 indigenous First Nation children, some as young as three years old, has been discovered at a former school to assimilate indigenous children in Canada.
Women
Naomi Osaka Didn’t Speak To Media At The French Open For Her Mental Health And Was Fined $15,000
Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka has been fined $15,000 by the French Open after she did not attend a mandatory press conference after her first match on Sunday.
Activism
People In Brazil Held Mass Protests To Impeach The Far-Right President For His Failure To Handle COVID
Tens of thousands of people across Brazil took to the streets on Saturday May 29 to demand the country’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, step down over his failure to handle the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed nearly half a million people in the country.
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This Italian Woman Who Allegedly Killed Herself After Her Leaked Sex Tape Went Viral May Actually Have Been Murdered
Prosecutors in Italy have opened a murder investigation into the death of a woman who was thought to have killed herself in 2016 after her leaked sex tape became a meme.
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Iraq’s First All-Women Demining Team Are Clearing Landmines Left Over From The War And Saving Lives
In Basra, Iraq, 14 women are defying rigid gender norms as they become the first all-women demining team in the city.
Climate
This Chinese Shepherd Saved Six Runners From An Ultramarathon With Extreme Weather That Killed 21
Zhu Keming, a shepherd in northwest China, saved six runners from a 100-kilometer ultramarathon where 21 runners died due to extreme weather.
world
A Black Fungus Epidemic Is Sweeping Across India And Infecting Recovering COVID Patients
An epidemic of black fungus is sweeping through India, with more than 9,000 cases reported and cases still rising in patients who have recovered or are recovering from COVID-19.