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China's middle class looks to flee as Covid policies bite
Shanghai's long shutdown, which brought food shortages and protests, has driven some to reconsider staying in a country where livelihoods and lifestyles can vanish at the whim of the state
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US panel weighs authorizing Covid vaccines for children under 5
Currently, children under five are the only age group not yet eligible for Covid immunization in the United States and most other countries
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Eavesdropping on the secret lives of dolphins in New York Harbour
To better understand the dolphins' rebound and threats to their populations, six scientists at the conservation society, including Rosenbaum, recently studied the behavior and haunts of dolphins in and around New York Harbor
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How travel is becoming cashless around the world
In a transition hastened by the pandemic's preference for contactless payment, increasingly you can travel abroad and barely ever handle a physical bill or coin, whether pounds, kroner or euros
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WTO seeks to lift global vaccine IP rights
However, serious objections remain from some of the countries that host major pharmaceutical companies, like Britain and Switzerland—a problem at the WTO, where decisions are taken by consensus rather than by majority
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Volkswagen faces Brazil hearing over dictatorship-era slavery claims
The German automaker is facing allegations of human-rights violations including torture and killings, at a farm it ran during the country's military dictatorship
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Families of overdose victims demand action from Snapchat, other social media platforms
Sam Chapman, part of a group that staged a protest Monday in front of Snapchat's Santa Monica headquarters, told AFP his son died in February 2021 after a pill he purchased through Snapchat was laced with the extremely powerful opioid fentanyl
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Why India's robust economy is not churning out jobs
Even as India is projected to have the fastest growth of any major economy this year, the rosy headline figures do not reflect reality for hundreds of millions of Indians: That growth is still not translating into enough jobs for the waves of educated young people who enter the labour force each year and a far larger number of Indians eke out a living in the informal sector
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Offshore methane gas leak spotted from space
The new study in the journal Environmental Science and Technology Letters identified a plume from an oil and gas production platform in the Gulf of Mexico that spewed some 40,000 tonnes over a 17-day period in December
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America's inflation is at a four-decade high. Here's what you need to know
Americans are confronting more expensive food, fuel and housing, and some are grasping for answers about what is causing the price burst, how long it might last and what can be done to resolve it
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Russia earns $98 billion from fuel exports in 100 days of Ukraine war: report
The EU took 61 percent of Russia's fossil fuel exports during the war's first 100 days, worth about 57 billion euros ($60 billion). Some countries have upped their purchases from Moscow, including China, India, the United Arab Emirates and France