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A Ukrainian athlete held a sign calling for peace at the end of his run for the men’s skeleton competition on Feb. 11 at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
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Swedish figure skater Josefina Taljegård defied tradition as the only woman athlete wearing pants for the women’s short program at the Beijing Olympics.
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A clip of two men kissing on a live broadcast from Singapore TV channel Channel News Asia (CNA) has gone viral for defying Singapore’s censorship laws and ban on same-sex relationships.
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Hong Kong, revolution of our times”, has been released after four years in prison.
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Following the massive underwater volcanic eruption near Tonga that triggered a tsunami and blanketed the country in ash on Saturday Jan. 15, Tonga’s Olympic flag-bearer has raised more than $400,000 in relief through a fundraising campaign.
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At least 164 people have been killed, more than 2,000 people injured and almost 10,000 people have been arrested as part of anti-government protests that broke out in Kazakhstan last week.
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Māori journalist and translator Oriini Kaipara has made history by becoming the first person with a traditional facial tattoo to host primetime news on New Zealand’s national television.
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Paing Takhon, one of Myanmar’s most popular celebrities, has been sentenced to three years in prison for taking part in mass protests against the military coup that happened in the country in February.
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Phạm Đoan Trang, an award-winning Vietnamese journalist and democracy activist, has been sentenced to nine years in prison for “conducting propaganda against the state.”
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Julie Anne Genter, a New Zealand MP, rode her bicycle to the hospital to give birth on Saturday, Nov. 27.
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Stella Creasy, a UK MP, had brought her three-month-old son to parliament in a sling and led a debate.
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Meet Jaha Dukureh, a 31-year-old women’s rights activist and anti-female genital mutilation (FGM) campaigner, who is hoping to run for president of the Gambia.