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'Mariupol is gone', people who escaped describe flight from ruins
Mariupol, a port in Ukraine's south on the Sea of Azov, is a largely Russian-speaking city. Some of the evacuees said they had once been ambivalent about some of the more enthusiastic displays of Ukrainian national pride that have become common throughout the country since 2014, when Russia snatched away the Crimean Peninsula and instigated a separatist war in the east
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Tiny Bronte book, unseen for a century, goes on sale in New York
Smaller than a playing card, the 15-page manuscript dated 1829 is a collection of ten unpublished poems written by a 13-year-old Charlotte Bronte and was last seen in public in November 1916
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Ecotourism giving rare iguanas a sweet tooth and high blood sugar
Northern Bahamian rock iguanas living on the Exuma Islands are so hooked on the tasty tourist treats that they rush to the beaches when they hear boats approaching
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World Earth Day: 3 approaches to better invest in our planet
Businesses are susceptible to any change in the external environment as they directly affect human and capital resources. It is time they started looking at climate change as an opportunity rather than a problem
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'I've had it with this guy': GOP leaders privately blasted Trump after Jan 6
McCarthy went so far as to say he would push Trump to resign immediately: "I've had it with this guy," he told a group of Republican leaders, according to an audio recording of the conversation obtained by The New York Times
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CNN+ streaming service will shut down weeks after it started
The shutdown is an ignominious end to an operation into which CNN sank tens of millions of dollars: from a nationwide marketing campaign to hundreds of newly hired employees to big contracts for name-brand
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Elon Musk says he has financing to take Twitter buyout bid to investors
Musk's filing pointed to a $13 billion debt facility from a financing consortium led by Morgan Stanley, a separate $12.5 billion margin loan from the same bank, as well as $21 billion from Musk's personal fortune
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WHO 'strongly recommends' Pfizer's Covid pill
The World Health Organization said it strongly recommended the Pfizer antiviral pill Paxlovid for patients with milder forms of the disease who were still at a high risk of hospitalisation
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Barack Obama calls for tighter reins on big tech
The former US president called out Silicon Valley, urging tech companies to stop dividing society and undermining democracy
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China axes 15 coal plants abroad after Xi pledge, but loopholes remain
The cancelled projects would have generated 12.8 gigawatts of electricity — or the total power generation capacity in Singapore, a new study finds, but a lack of clear rules has allowed Chinese developers to continue to build new coal power projects despite the ban
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From the Wolf of Wall Street to a self-styled crypto wolf
Jordan Belfort is best known for "The Wolf of Wall Street", a tell-all memoir about his debauched 1990s career in high finance. These days, he's a consultant and sales coach, charging tens of thousands of dollars for private sessions to blockchain enthusiasts and crypto entrepreneurs at his Miami beach