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Explainer: Joe Biden wants a digital dollar. How will it reshape global finance, cryptocurrency?
The creation of a digital dollar has the potential to reshape how money is moved and used around the world. But before we see a virtual greenback, there will be numerous major impacts — and risks— - to consider first
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'We couldn't leave them': Ukraine refugees flee with pets in tow
An animal shelter on the outskirts of the nearby Polish city of Przemysl welcomed 38 dogs and 32 cats from Ukraine on Wednesday
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50 years on, NASA opens sample taken from the Moon
Dubbed 73001, the sample in question was collected by astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt in December 1972, during the Apollo 17 mission — the last of the program
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South Africa most unequal country in the world: report
Nearly 30 years after the end of the apartheid, race still plays a major role in the country where 10 percent of the population owns more than 80 percent of the wealth
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Facebook eases rules to allow violent speech against 'Russian invaders'
The policy decision from Facebook and Instagram's parent Meta was met immediately with controversy, but the social media giant defended its change as 'allowances for political expression'
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At US eateries, love for Ukraine, and wrath by proxy for Russia
With the war an ocean away, restaurants have become something of a culinary frontline for Americans to channel support for Kyiv by queuing for a seat and a pastry — while hoping to inflict a bit of pain on Moscow, if only by proxy
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First pig heart transplant patient dies after two months
The procedure had raised hopes that advances in cross-species organ donation could one day solve the chronic shortage of human organs available for donation
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Everyone wants to air Ukrainian president Zelenskyy's hit TV series
Since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, broadcasters in 20 countries, including channels like Britain's Channel 4, Greece's ANT1 and Romania's PRO TV have rushed to join those who have already snapped up the rights to "Servant of the People", which first aired in Ukraine in 2015
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Germany rejects complete ban on Russian gas, oil; calls for a moral stand grow louder
A group of climate activists, academics, authors and scientists published an open letter to the German government on Wednesday demanding a complete ban on Russian energy, reasoning that "we are all financing this war"
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Lacking oversight, Telegram thrives in Ukraine disinformation battle
Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an account on the Telegram messaging platform posing as President Volodymyr Zelensky urged his armed forces to surrender. The message was not authentic but reached 20,000 followers of the fake account
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UN atomic watchdog says contact lost with Chernobyl nuclear data systems
On February 24, Russia invaded Ukraine and seized the defunct plant, site of a 1986 disaster that killed hundreds and spread radioactive contamination west across Europe, and has since had over 200 technical staff and guards trapped, working for 13 days straight