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Pope Francis has issued a historic apology to the Indigenous peoples of Canada for the Catholic Church’s role in residential schools that assimilated Indigenous children.
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Amid Russian shelling, Ukrainian mothers are being forced to give birth in makeshift maternity hospitals in basements.
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Roman Hrybov, the Ukrainian border guard who told a Russian warship to “go fuck yourself” when ordered to surrender, has returned home and been awarded a medal for his service, according to the Ukrainian defense ministry.
Activism
Afghan girl students took to the streets of Kabul to protest their right to education after the Taliban banned them from returning to school.
Cute
As the Cheng-Gong Junior High School’s string orchestra from Hsinchu, Taiwan, began its performance at a national music competition, the entire venue plunged into darkness.
Cute
A Japanese professor has created a lickable TV screen that can imitate the taste of food.
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High school girls were told to return home when they showed up at school on the first day of the academic year.
Activism
Three years after a terrorist attacked a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, and killed 51 people, a survivor who was shot nine times retraced the gunman’s path to reclaim the journey for peace.
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The staff at one of Ukraine’s largest museums are racing to save invaluable art as the Russian invasion continues.
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Protests have broken out in Sudan after a 19-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped by security forces involved in dispersing anti-government protesters.
Climate
A Swedish company has been training crows to pick up cigarette butts in an effort to reduce the cost of cleaning litter off the streets in Södertälje, near Stockholm.
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A journalist who worked at one of Russia’s major state-controlled TV stations crashed a live news program to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.