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Month: September 2023

An alarming humanitarian crisis and massive sexual violence wrack eastern Congo, UN official says

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The humanitarian situation in conflict-wracked eastern Congo has deteriorated alarmingly in the past 18 months with 8 million people in urgent need of assistance and women and girls subjected to sexual violence on a massive scale — just in three provinces, a senior U.N. official

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La segunda ciudad más grande de Gran Bretaña se declara en bancarrota en medio de demandas de igualdad salarial por US$ 950 millones

Sofía Benavides (CNN) — La segunda ciudad más grande de Gran Bretaña se declaró en bancarrota este martes, suspendiendo todos los gastos no esenciales después de recibir demandas de igualdad salarial por un total de 760 millones de libras (unos US$ 956 millones). El Concejo de Birmingham, que proporciona servicios a más de un millón

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Antarctica’s ice shelves are thinner than we thought. Here’s what that means for sea levels

By Michael Lee, CTVNews.ca Writer Click here for updates on this story     Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — New research has found that previous studies on the Antarctic ice shelves may have overestimated their thickness, an important factor for scientists to determine how fast sea levels could rise. Researchers from Ohio State University say in a

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Power outages reported near Lake of the Ozarks area as storms hit parts of Mid-Missouri

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Thunderstorms hit parts of Mid-Missouri on Tuesday evening, resulting in significant power outages for some counties. Co-Mo Electric Cooperative customers in Morgan County were hit early in the evening with outages, as the cooperative reported 930 outages in the county by 10:20 p.m., with 774 coming from Co-Mo Electric Cooperative and 156

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Corte Suprema de Chile ordena al Estado indemnizar a 31 mineros que quedaron atrapados hace 13 años

macamilarincon (CNN Español) –– La Corte Suprema de Chile informó este viernes que el pasado 23 de agosto falló a favor de 31 trabajadores que demandaron al Estado tras quedar atrapados en una mina hace 13 años. Argumentaban que quedaron incapacitados para laborar por haber enfermado de las vías respiratorias tras la inhalación de polvo

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The videos ISIS didn’t want you to see: How grainy security footage could help hold abusers to account

By Mick Krever and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN. Video by Oscar Featherstone (CNN) — The footage is mundane and revelatory all at once. The hallway, filmed from an unmoving closed-circuit camera, appears unremarkable. It’s the point in time, and the people in the former children’s hospital, that make the hours and hours of video from this

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Airbnb limits some new reservations in New York City as short-term rental regulations go into effect

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New regulations on short-term rentals have gone into effect in New York City. Officials and housing advocates pushing for the new rules say they’re necessary to protect the city’s housing stock and to stop apartments from becoming de facto hotels. But Airbnb says the regulations that

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