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Cole Brauer became the first American woman to circumnavigate the globe alone and nonstop, The Washington Post reported. After traversing some 30,000 miles, Brauer returned to the Spanish port city of A Corua after 130 days. Over the four months, she traveled through the world’s three great capes.
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2 years ago Read more at Robb Report

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Tauranga speed climbers Julian David and Sarah Tetzlaff are ecstatic to take their athletic skills to the next level in France at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The pair have recently been announced as the first athletes selected for the NZ speed climbing team. Julian says he’ll go to the Olympics with no expectations.
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2 years ago Read more at SunLive

Malaysian 370: World's Top Missing Plane Mystery, 10 Years On | English News | N18V"Good Night. Malaysian Three Seven Zero. Minutes later, the plane disappeared from air-traffic control radar screens.
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2 years ago Read more at News18

Gotytom Gebreslase will race at the Nagoya Women’s Marathon on Sunday (10) The 2022 world champion set her PB of 2:18:11 when winning that title in Oregon and went on to secure silver at last year’s World Championships in Budapest. This will be the Ethiopian 29-year-old’s first marathon since then and she goes into it targeting at least a lifetime best, if not the course record of 2:17:18 set by Kenya’s Ruth Chepnget
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2 years ago Read more at World Athletics

UN Human Rights Council: violations and crimes under international law committed in the protests sparked by the death of Jina Mahsa Amini in September 2022 include extra-judicial and unlawful killings and murder, unnecessary and disproportionate use of force, arbitrary deprivation of liberty, torture, rape, enforced disappearances and gender persecution. Credible figures suggest as many as 551 protesters were killed by the security forces, among them at least 49 women and 68 children.
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2 years ago Read more at UN News

Nineteen-year-old singer-songwriter Khaid’s musical journey is quite the story. It started on the streets of his hometown Ojo, 40km (25 miles) west of Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos. In 2021 one of the videos he posted on Instagram of him rapping went viral – and was spotted by media personality, comedian and actor Stanley Talker.
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International Skating Union Laurent Dubreuil takes bronze on Friday in Inzell, Germany. World Sprint Championships reward consistency over four races. The samalog method is used to convert the times achieved in each race to points.
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Moshe Lavi says he and other families of hostages won’t stop putting pressure on Israel and other world leaders to bring home those in Hamas’ captivity. His brother-in-law, Omri Miran, was taken, along with over two hundred others, on October 7. “My biggest fear is that the world will continue to move on,” Lavi said Friday.
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2 years ago Read more at NewsNation Now

Train travel inspired ritzy rail companies to build palatial railroad stations worldwide. In addition to luring potential customers with eye-popping architecture, they became the gateways to major metropoles and a city's first chance to wow new arrivals. Today, many remaining rail stations are getting a second lease on life as hotels. What to do: Hike abandoned WWII bunkers, hit winter slopes at ski resort Candanch.
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2 years ago Read more at Lonely Planet Travel News