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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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Loujain al-Hathloul, a prominent Saudi women’s rights activist who campaigned for an end to the ban on women driving in the country, has been sentenced to five years and eight months in prison.
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Zhang Zhan, a 37-year-old Chinese citizen journalist and former lawyer, has been sentenced to four years in prison for her reporting on the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan.
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South Africa’s national cricket team, the Proteas, raised their fists in support of the Black Lives Matter movement before their test match against Sri Lanka on Saturday Dec. 26.
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Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, has been fined 90,000 euros ($110,000) for appointing too many women to senior management positions.
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Ruhollah Zam, an Iranian activist and journalist, has been executed after he was accused of inciting mass anti-government protests that rocked Iran between 2017 and 2018.
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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.