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Far from Kabul, building a new life, with music and hope
Under the U.S.-backed government in Kabul, the Afghanistan National Institute of Music had flourished, becoming a symbol of Afghanistan's changing identity. The Taliban had long treated it as a threat. More than 250 students fled and found asylum in Portugal and are now reviving their passion for music
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Sharp drop in childhood vaccinations threatens millions of lives
It is the largest backslide in routine immunization in 30 years, according to a new analysis from UNICEF, the United Nations agency that vaccinates half the world's children, and the World Health Organisation
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China's surveillance state hits rare resistance from its own subjects
As China builds up its vast surveillance and security apparatus, it is running up against growing public unease about the lack of safeguards to prevent the theft or misuse of personal data
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Saudi Arabia-US: From protection for oil to Khashoggi murder, a crisis-peppered partnership
Saudi Arabia and the United States have a long-standing strategic partnership, but the oil and security driven relationship has been strained by several crises. Here's a look at the complicated relationship
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Elon Musk Vs Twitter: How the bots will decide the fate of legal tussle
The information Twitter has or has not provided on its tally of fake or spam accounts is Musk's stated reason for backing away from the deal— a move that prompted the firm to sue him this week
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Long haul to decarbonisation for aviation industry
After coming under intense pressure to reduce its carbon footprint, the aviation industry has pledged to drastically cut its emissions of greenhouse gases, but the route to meeting those commitments is likely to prove long
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China officials haul in Alibaba execs over massive data heist: report
Alibaba's shares slumped 5.7 percent at the open in Hong Kong on Friday, hours after The Wall Street Journal reported that Shanghai authorities had called in its executives for talks in connection with the heist
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The lonely work of picking the universe's best astronomy pictures
For six weeks, a mix of astronomers, press officers and science communicators at the Space Telescope Science Institute raced to assemble an early highlight reel for the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope
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In a Post-Roe world, the future of digital privacy looks even grimmer
Reproductive privacy has become so fraught that government officials and lawmakers are rushing to introduce new policies and bills to safeguard Americans' data
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Russia and Ukraine near grain deal in first talks since March
Shipments across the Black Sea have been blocked both by Russian warships and mines Kyiv has laid to avert a feared amphibious assault. The stakes could not be higher for tens of millions of people facing the threat of starvation in African and other poor nations because of the battles engulfing one of the world's main grain-producing regions
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Vulnerable Pacific islands call for 'urgent, immediate' action on climate
At a key summit in the Fijian capital Suva, island leaders warned time was running out to avoid "worst-case scenarios" that would see their countries—many teetering just above sea level—subsumed or rendered uninhabitable by ever-fiercer storms