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‘Total repression’: Russia orders top rights group shut, capping year of crackdowns

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s Supreme Court ordered the country’s best-known human rights group on Tuesday to be liquidated for breaking a law requiring groups to register as foreign agents, capping a year of crackdowns on Kremlin critics unseen since the Soviet

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Climate Crises Dominated 2021. But These Innovations Offer Some Hope

After a rare pandemic-related dip in 2020, global carbon emissions bounced back with a vengeance. Climate disasters seemed relentless over the summer, from flooding in Western Europe and China to wildfires in Siberia and the American West. And although world

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These are the top stories NPR’s correspondents around the world recommend from 2021

We asked the network’s international journalists to pick one story from the year you should check out. Here are their selections. (Image credit: Mootaz Sami for NPR)

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Elon Musk criticised on Chinese social media over risk of ‘collision’ between Starlink satellites and space station

  Elon Musk been criticized on social media after China complains that its space station was forced to avoid collisions with satellites launched by its Starlink Internet Services project. China submitted a document earlier this month to the UN’s space

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4 Charts That Explain the U.S.’s 2021 Economic Rollercoaster

The U.S. economy ended up in a weird place in 2021. Consumers were eager to spend money, but couldn’t get their purchases because supply chains were haywire. Wages rose as workers resigned. Prices, meanwhile, soared for everything from groceries to

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Synthetic Alcohol Promises to Make Drinking Safer. But Experts Are Wary

Our ancestors started drinking booze millions of years ago, and we never stopped. Alcohol is embedded in nearly every culture in the world as a social lubricant, marker of taste and cornerstone of celebrations. If companies tried to bring it

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Gunman kills four people and injures officer in Denver area – The Guardian

Gunman kills four people and injures officer in Denver area  The Guardian Colorado gunman kills 4, injures 3 in ‘shooting spree’ at multiple locations: cops  Fox News 5 dead, including gunman, after shooting spree in Denver area | ABC7  ABC7 5 killed, officer

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Egypt ‘digitally unwraps’ mummy of famed pharaoh

Egypt has “digitally unwrapped” the mummy of famed Pharaoh Amenhotep I, revealing its secrets for the first time since it was discovered in 1881 without disturbing his funerary mask. Thanks to the advanced digital 3D imagery, researchers unearthed new mummification

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New Omicron variant fills up children’s hospitals – CNN

New Omicron variant fills up children’s hospitals  CNN Rise of COVID-19 child hospitalizations raises concerns  CBS News Coronavirus live updates and omicron variant news  The Washington Post NY COVID Hospitalizations Top 5K for 1st Time Since Feb.; Admissions Among NYC Kids Soar  NBC New

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India restricts foreign funding for Mother Teresa charity

India has moved to cut off foreign funding to a charity founded by Mother Teresa, a decision critics described as further evidence of harassment of Christians under the Hindu nationalist government. The Missionaries of Charity was founded in 1950 by

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