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Chloé Lopes Gomes, the first black ballerina at Germany’s leading ballet company, has spoken out against the racism that she experienced within the company.
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Tens of thousands of farmers have flooded the streets across India in an ongoing protest against new laws deregulating agriculture that they say may lower crop prices and lead to corporate exploitation.
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The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, has revealed that she had a miscarriage in July this year.
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Guatemala’s congress has shelved a proposed budget that would have cut spending on healthcare and education after it sparked massive, violent anti-government protests in the country.
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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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Nasrin Sotoudeh, one of Iran’s most prominent human rights lawyers, has been temporarily released, according to the judiciary’s news agency.
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More than 100 pilot whales that became stranded on a beach in Sri Lanka have been rescued and returned to sea.
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Tens of thousands of people in Taiwan held the world’s biggest pride march since the COVID-19 pandemic began on Saturday, after the country reported more than 200 days without a local transmission of COVID-19.
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Thousands of women have taken to the streets across Poland for days in a row following a ruling that bans abortion for almost all cases.
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Some residents in Japan’s Nara have invented digestible, “deer-friendly” bags to help stop deer in Nara Park from eating plastic bags and food wrappers left behind from tourists.
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The K-pop group encouraged young people not to lose hope despite the isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Starbucks’ first sign language store in Tokyo, Japan, is run by 25 staff members, 19 of whom are deaf or hard of hearing.