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Egypt held a spectacular parade through the capital city of Cairo on Saturday Apr. 3 as it moved 22 mummies to a new museum dedicated to Egyptian civilization.
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Lance Karlson, a 34-year-old geologist and author, was going for a swim in southwestern Australia when the octopus lurched at him.
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A passenger train in Taiwan derailed on Friday Apr. 2, leaving at least 50 people dead and about 150 injured in the country’s deadliest railway accident in decades.
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New Zealand’s Catholic Church has formally apologized to the survivors of abuse within the church.
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A stray cat in Turkey took her sick kittens to a veterinary clinic in the western province of Izmir to seek help.
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Soccer players from a number of European countries are showing their support for the rights of migrant workers in Qatar during their 2022 World Cup qualifier matches.
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A man in Japan has been fined 9,000 yen (US$80) for online abuse directed at Hana Kimura, a former cast member of the Netflix reality show “Terrace House” who killed herself last year.
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Global superstar K-pop group BTS have condemned the recent waves of anti-Asian racism and violence occurring in the United States and shared their own experiences of racism as Asians with a letter on Twitter using #StopAsianHate and #StopAAPIHate.
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The Swiss army will start issuing women’s underwear to its women recruits in an effort to increase women recruits.
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Women in Turkey held a mass protest on Saturday Mar. 27 against the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s decision to withdraw the country from an international treaty preventing violence against women.
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France’s highest court has ruled a group of firefighters accused of raping a girl from when she was 13 to 15 years old will not be charged with rape but with sexual assault, which carries a lighter sentence than rape.
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A massive container ship that got stuck in Egypt’s Suez Canal almost a week ago is causing a international trade crisis, blocking more than 300 ships stuck on either side along one of the world’s most vital shipping lanes.