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Migrants Continue To Die In Attempts To Cross Mediterranean Sea To Europe

The pandemic and its many travel restrictions haven’t stopped thousands of migrants from attempting the dangerous trip across the Mediterranean Sea this year. More than 1,000 have died at sea.

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3 Minutes Less Of 2020: Iconic Scottish Clock That Always Runs Fast Won’t Be Set Back

The clock at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland, traditionally runs three minutes fast and is set back to match Greenwich Mean Time only on Dec. 31. This year, it will keep running fast.

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Argentina To Vote On Abortion Legalization

Argentina prepares to vote on a landmark bill that, if passed, would legalize abortion and make Argentina the first big Latin American country to do so.

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Move over Gantz, Tel Aviv’s mayor is the new anti-Netanyahu kid in town

While the Blue and White leader fumes at the political price he is paying for his sacrifice, voters are no longer listening. Will they find Ron Huldai more compelling?

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Statue Of Lincoln With Freed Slave At His Feet Is Removed In Boston

“We’re pleased to have taken it down this morning,” a spokesperson for Mayor Marty Walsh said. (Image credit: Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images)

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Liberman sets his sights on becoming Israel’s next finance minister

Hawkish Yisrael Beytenu leader says he won’t join Netanyahu or ultra-Orthodox parties in a government, but doesn’t rule out teaming up with dovish Meretz

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What’s behind this year’s boom in climate tech SPACs?

There’s no denying that 2020 has been the year of the special purpose acquisition company. Since the beginning of the year, 219 SPACs have raised $73 billion, according to widely reported market research from Goldman Sachs. That’s a 462% jump

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Veteran Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai launches new center-left party, ‘The Israelis’

‘Israel can and must be run differently,’ declares longtime Labor member; Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn leaves Blue and White to join him

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Why Do We Dream? A New Theory on How It Protects Our Brains

When he was two years old, Ben stopped seeing out of his left eye. His mother took him to the doctor and soon discovered he had retinal cancer in both eyes. After chemotherapy and radiation failed, surgeons removed both his

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