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Maria Branyas is the oldest living person in the world by just a few days, ahead of Fusa Tatsumi in Japan. At the residence, where she overcame Covid in 2020 at the age of 113, her family will visit her with a birthday cake and her fellow residents will give her a gift to celebrate the occasion. Maria has a profile on the social network X (formerly Twitter)
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2 years ago Read more at Surinenglish.com

France go become di first kontri in di world wey go make abortion constitutional right Wia dis foto come from, Getty Images Wetin we call dis foto, One protester dey hold placards signs wey read 'My body, My uterus, My choice' if, as dey expect, dem go vote for di goment motion by three-fifths majority, den di kontri 1958 constitution go dey revised to include women right to abortion. Resistance from right-wing
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2 years ago Read more at BBC.com

Pope Francis wrote a letter to the world’s children. “Our world will change if we all begin with these little things, without being ashamed to take small steps, one at a time,” he wrote. The letter included an invitation for the youngsters to participate in the first World Children’s Day meeting in Rome May 25-26.
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2 years ago Read more at Catholic Review of Baltimore

Kurtis Marschall (WA) added another top-five major championships finish to his 2023 World Athletics Championships bronze. Australian recovered from an early miss at the opening height of 5.50m to deliver first-attempt clearances at 5.65m and 5.75m. The sprint hurdler ran 8.05 for fifth place in Semi-Final 3, making in-roads ahead of the Paris Olympics.
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2 years ago Read more at Runner's Tribe

Northern Graphite Corp. is rebranding to reflect its unique position as North America’s only graphite producer. The announcement follows the recently launch of the company’s NGC Battery Materials Group. NGC battery Materials Group will lead the development of Northern’s 200,000 tonne-per-year Baie-Comeau, Que., Battery Anode Material facility, where production expected to commence in 2026.
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2 years ago Read more at Resource World Magazine

The Miami Student Tracey Hayes has been reading tarot for 30 years. She has more than three decks of cards she works with, allowing her to choose one that best fits the person she's reading. The reader has to find a version that speaks to different people while also keeping that card's meaning.
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2 years ago Read more at Miami Student

The Wende Museum is a sanctuary for Cold War relics, holding one of the world's largest collections of espionage paraphernalia. Justin Jampol and his team navigate the challenge of deciphering the true meaning behind objects. In doing so, they unveil the forgotten tradecraft of the Cold War, providing a unique lens into the covert operations.
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2 years ago Read more at Spyscape

The eastern barred bandicoot was once found in abundance across the basalt plains of western Victoria. But habitat destruction and predation by introduced red foxes drove the species to the brink of extinction on the mainland. This is the first species in Australia to be reclassified from extinct in the wild to endangered. The technique can be effective, but can come with unwanted consequences.
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2 years ago Read more at Phys.org

The creation of the state of Israel took place in 1948, three years after World War II, achieving the end goal of more than a half century of Zionists striving for a Jewish state in Palestine. This ideology also heavily influenced the creation of new nation-states in eastern Europe following World War I along ethnic/linguistic lines as well as the partition of India along religious lines in 1947. In all these cases major international powers attempted to delineate new states that were as ethnically or religiously homogenous as possible
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2 years ago Read more at LSE Home

Closing the gender gap could help raise global gross domestic product by more than 20 per cent, doubling the world's growth rate over the next decade. The World Bank says reforms have “slowed to a crawl” and governments need to haveten progress towards achieving gender equality in workplaces and in their regulatory frameworks. Women enjoy 64 per cent of legal protections globally available to men on average, significantly lower than previous estimate of 77 per cent.
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2 years ago Read more at The National