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A pride progress flag hangs on a building in November 2022 in London.

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  • World

Women in England and Wales can now be pardoned for old convictions of homosexuality

Previously, only men unjustly convicted under outdated anti-homosexuality laws could apply to be pardoned — and only for certain offenses. Now women can too.

June 14, 2023
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  • Fatima Al-Kassab
Mexican National Guards patrol among the lanes of cars entering the San Ysidro Port of Entry in Tijuana, Mexico, May 11, 2023. Montserrat Caballero, the mayor of the Mexican border city of Tijuana, said on June 12, 2023 she has decided to go live at an army base for her own safety, after she received threats.

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  • Latin America

The mayor of a Mexican border city says she will live at an army base for safety

The Tijuana city government said threats to Mayor Montserrat Caballero and bodies discovered in a truck were tied to her administration's results in weapons seizures and arrests of violent suspects.

June 14, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, is seen in the background of the shallow Kakhovka Reservoir. Water levels in the reservoir have been falling rapidly after a critical dam collapsed.

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  • Science

A Ukrainian nuclear plant is facing a water shortage

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant used a large reservoir for cooling water. Now that reservoir is rapidly draining.

June 13, 2023
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
Elizabeth Gilbert is delaying publication of <em>The Snow Forest</em>, a novel set in Russia, after receiving an outpouring of "anger, sorrow, disappointment and pain" from Ukrainian readers who object to releasing any work about Russia. Here, in this photo from September 2010, Gilbert arrives at the European premiere of the film <em>Eat, Pray, Love</em> in Leicester Square, London.

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  • Books

Elizabeth Gilbert halts release of a new book after outcry over its Russian setting

The Snow Forest by the author of Eat, Pray, Love was set to be released in February 2024, exactly two years after Russia invaded Ukraine. The backlash included hundreds of negative GoodReads reviews.

June 13, 2023
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Alessandra Korap Munduruku demanded that mining company Anglo American withdraw its permits to develop projects on her ancestral land.

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  • Environment

How a Brazilian activist stood up to mining giants to protect her ancestral rainforest

Indigenous activist Alessandra Korap Munduruku was one of this year's recipients of the Goldman Environmental Prize for grassroots activists.

June 13, 2023
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  • Jill Langlois
A scene from the Brazilian film "Nurses Facing Covid" ("<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9e3eiqZz1o&list=PL9S6xGsoqIBWS_JUFdjXpdvLL86R_8VQq&index=2">Na Lihna de Frente</a>"), one of the "Grand Prix" winners in this year's Health for All Film Festival.

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  • Global Health

The winners from the WHO's short film fest were grim, inspiring and NSFW-ish

Honorees from the World Health Organization's Health for all Film Festival tell stories of pain — but also of resilience and hope — all in 8 minutes or less.

June 13, 2023
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  • Max Barnhart
In this photo released by Dnipro Regional Administration, emergency workers extinguish a fire after missiles hit a multi-story apartment building in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 13, 2023.

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  • Europe

Russian missile attack on Ukrainian president's hometown kills at least 6

At least six people were killed when Russian missiles hit civilian buildings in an overnight attack Tuesday in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, regional officials said.

June 13, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
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Christine and the Queens' new album is an operatic exploration of grief and angels

French pop artist Christine and the Queens' new album, Paranoïa, Angels, True Love, is both dreamlike and hyperpersonal.

June 12, 2023
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  • Julie Depenbrock
A resident walks on Sunday in a flooded street after the Kakhovka Dam burst and unleashed floodwaters, in Kherson, Ukraine.

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  • World

Latest in Ukraine: The counteroffensive is on, so is massive flooding

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

June 12, 2023
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  • Alex Leff
UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay delivers a speech Monday at the group's headquarters in Paris to announce the United States' request to resume membership in the organization.

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  • World

The U.S. says it wants to rejoin UNESCO after exiting during the Trump administration

The U.S. could reenter the cultural and educational body several years after it pulled out of the group citing an "anti-Israel bias" and other concerns.

June 12, 2023
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  • Joe Hernandez
Silvio Berlusconi meets journalists at the Quirinale presidential palace in Rome in 2018.

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  • World

Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's former prime minister, has died at the age of 86

The media mogul turned prime minister left a mark on popular culture, while his coarseness and constant legal woes trashed political norms and tainted Italy's image in the world.

June 12, 2023
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  • Sylvia Poggioli
Silhouettes of detained people are seen in a police truck near the Moscow City Court during the trial of a Russian opposition leader in Moscow on February 2, 2021.

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  • National

U.S. citizen and musician Michael Travis Leake has been detained in Russia

A Moscow court said Leake was detained on suspicion of organizing a drug trafficking business. If convicted, he could face as much as 20 years in prison under Russia's strict drug laws.

June 12, 2023
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  • Juliana Kim
On Saturday in Bogota, Colombia, military personnel unload from a plane one of four Indigenous children who were missing after a deadly plane crash.

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  • Latin America

4 children who survived for 40 days in the Colombian jungle recover as details emerge

The children, aged 13, 9, 4, and 11 months, are expected to remain for at least two weeks in a hospital receiving treatment after their rescue Friday.

June 12, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
A roadblock is set up near the town of Greta following a bus crash in the Hunter Valley, north of Sydney, Australia on Monday.

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  • World

Bus carrying wedding guests in Australia crashes and rolls, killing 10 and injuring 25

A bus carrying wedding guests rolled over on a foggy night in Australia's wine country, killing 10 people and injuring 25, police said. The 58-year-old driver was arrested.

June 11, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon speaks during a press conference in February at Bute House in Edinburgh. Sturgeon has been arrested by police investigating the finances of Scotland's pro-independence governing party.

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  • World

Scotland's former leader released after she was arrested and questioned by police

Nicola Sturgeon, the former First Minister of Scotland, was arrested Sunday amid an investigation by authorities into the finances of the governing, pro-independence Scottish National Party.

June 11, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
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