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10-yr-old helps Biden-Harris team devise global plastic policy

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How the next five months may decide the future of Afghanistan

An average of five children have been killed or wounded every day for the past 14 years in war-wrecked Afghanistan, according to Save The Children. /VCG Twenty years on from the American invas

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'Your cow is dumb, mine has superpowers': India's bizarre claim

A cow sitting in the middle of a busy street in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India, September 2019. /VCG If setting up the National Cow Commission and conducting an all-India level competitive exam

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'Koo' is it? India finds Twitter's replacement

Twitter logo (L), Koo logo (R) Indian ministers, lawmakers, officials and their staunch supporters are moving to the home-made, largely-obscured Koo app in droves to counter Twitter after the

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Meet the first Black woman set to lead WTO

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala attending a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, February 15, 2020. /VCG "She is going to rock the place." That's how Christine Lagarde, the first woman president of th

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After Rihanna's tweet, global celebrities back farm protests in India

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#MeTooIncest: A book, a scandal, a movement

Getty "My father began sexually abusing me when I was at the age of 2 …#MeTooIncest," wrote a woman from the U.S. on Twitter."I remember myself banging on the closed door whilst my sister was

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Racial epithets hurled at Indian cricketers in Sydney

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Woman power to lead Biden's justice team

In coming months, all eyes will be on the U.S. Justice Department as the American people metabolize the embarrassment, shock, fury and horror of the Capitol chaos into lessons learned and lessons

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Malalai Maiwand - 'Brave Afghan journalist with open eyes' shot dead

Screenshot of Afghani TV anchor Malala Maiwand in Enikass TV./ Reuters "A brave, top-notch journalist with open eyes," that's how Aziz Tassal, director of the Kabul Press Club, described 26-y

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$2.7 bln new seat of power for Modi's pandemic and recession-hit India

/Courtesy of @LokSabhaSectt via Twitter Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday laid the foundation for the $2.7 billion Central Vista Redevelopment Project, making way for the constru

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War on love? India's 'love jihad' legislation

/Reuters Jihad in love?"Love jihad is a calculated agenda of invasion on the demographics," said Alok Kumar, central working president of the Vishva Hindu Prishad (VHP), at the launch of the "

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Mystery over COVID-19 status of Bollywood's 'first family'

(R-L) Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan poses with his family members, daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, son Abhishek Bachchan and wife Jaya Bachchan, after receiving the award for the best

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In The Spotlight: Beyond the name – who was George Floyd?

Like millions of African Americans in the United States, 46-year-old George Floyd was struggling to survive the economic and emotional jolts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Floyd, who had moved to Minne

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Shakespeare's Globe theater, biggest COVID-19 culture casualty?

Image via https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/join-and-support/donate/ "And whether we shall meet again I know not. Therefore, our everlasting farewell take: For ever, and for ever, farewell…" t

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In The Spotlight: Esmail Qaani, new face of Iran's elite Quds Force

"They (U.S.) hit him (Soleimani) in a cowardly way, but with God's grace and through endeavors of freedom-seekers around the world who want vengeance over his blood, we will hit his enemy in a man

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In The Spotlight: Curious case of Carlos Ghosn, conman or scapegoat?

AP Photo The fallen boss of the Nissan-Renault alliance, Carlos Ghosn, said in a 2006 interview: "You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success