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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi to testify in own defense later this month

Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi this month will give courtroom testimony for the first time in one of the several cases against her since the military took power in February.

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Mike Pence just said something absolutely ridiculous about January 6 – CNN

Mike Pence just said something absolutely ridiculous about January 6  CNN Mike Pence Tries To Spin Jan. 6 Insurrection, Gets Brutal Reminder  HuffPost Pence says January 6 is being used to ‘demean’ Trump supporters  Business Insider Opinion | The revelations about Mike Pence’s

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Why do women feel cold more? Evolution, so men keep a distance: Israeli study

By programming males and females to prefer different temperatures, it keeps the sexes apart, improving evolutionary chances by curbing aggression, suggests peer-reviewed research

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Will Russia’s hypersonic missile test relaunch Cold War-style arms race?

Russia announced on Monday that it had launched a hypersonic missile from a nuclear submarine for the first time – one of the Zircon class missiles President Vladimir Putin and his military officers see as potential game-changers. It is pitch

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How to Maintain Your Social Life When You Have IBD

About two years ago, as Samantha Plevney was dealing with a major Crohn’s disease flare-up, she decided to tell her gastroenterologist how it was affecting her emotional health. “I told him that I’m alive but I’m not living,” she recalls.

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EU releases first-ever strategy to fight antisemitism, promote Jewish life

Program focuses on Holocaust awareness, securing sites, monitoring hate speech; pledges to work with Israel on initiative

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Mossad took DNA from body in Lebanon to determine if it was Ron Arad — report

Israeli spy agency examined corpse interred in northern Lebanese village of Nabi Chit, believed to belong to missing airman, Saudi news site reports

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330,000 children victims of church sex abuse, French report finds

An estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within France’s Catholic Church over the past 70 years, according to a report released Tuesday that represents the country’s first major accounting of the worldwide phenomenon.

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A Russian actor blasts off to make a movie on the International Space Station

The film is reportedly the first feature-length fiction movie shot in space, telling the story of a doctor who rushes to save the life of a cosmonaut aboard the International Space Station. (Image credit: Roscosmos Press Service/Handout//Anadolu Agency via Getty

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Facebook Senate Hearing: Teenage Girls and Social Media’s Effect

Among young people, the idea that Instagram can hurt someone’s self-image is widely discussed.

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