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Sri Lanka's many missteps that led its economy into a tailspin
Months of lengthy blackouts and acute shortages of food, fuel and medicines have infuriated the public, with huge protests demanding the government's resignation turning violent this week
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Abortion pills demand on internet surges after US Supreme Court leak
Dutch physician Rebecca Gomperts' abortion boat and the Women on Waves group have anchored their ship in international waters off the coasts of Poland, Spain, Mexico and other countries, offering medical abortions to women; in the US interest has been surging in her other organization, Aid Access, which since 2018 has provided abortion pills over the internet
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US, EU to boost coordination on semiconductor supply, Russia
Top US officials are visiting the French scientific hub of Saclay for a meet up of the Trade and Technology Council, created last year as China increasingly exerts its technology clout
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Not a Matisse or a Warhol: Dinosaur skeleton sells for $12.4 million at Christie's
Christie's sold the skeleton of a Deinonychus antirrhopus — a species that became one of the world's most recognizable dinosaurs after the release of the movie "Jurassic Park" — for $12.4 million, with fees, to an undisclosed buyer
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A battle over how to battle over Roe
For the protesters chanting loudly outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home, incivility was the point. They said they wanted to impinge on his privacy with picket signs and chants to condemn the Supreme Court justice's apparent support for ending the constitutional right to privacy that guaranteed access to abortion nearly 50 years ago
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Africa's first Covid-19 vaccine factory has not received a single order
The factory, in the coastal South African city of Gqeberha, formerly known as Port Elizabeth, was celebrated as a solution to the continent's unequal access to vaccines when it announced a deal to start manufacturing COVID-19 vaccines in November. But now it faces an imminent shut down if no orders are placed
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Deal to buy Twitter 'temporarily on hold': Elon Musk
Musk, the world's richest man and founder of automaker Tesla, had made the eradication of spam accounts and bots one of the centrepieces of his proposed $44 billion takeover of Twitter
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Crippling baby formula shortage grips the US
Last week, the average out-of-stock rate for baby formula was 43 percent, according to Datasembly, which collected information from more than 11,000 retailers
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We now know what the Milky Way black hole looks like
The first picture of "the gentle giant" dwelling at the center of our galaxy is a supermassive black hole, a trapdoor in space-time through which the equivalent of four million suns have been dispatched to eternity, leaving behind only their gravity and violently bent space-time
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Lawyer who argued Roe v. Wade outraged over possible reversal
"It's going to cost a lot more for people that don't have good health care or just the poor" to get an abortion, Linda Coffee, the last surviving member of the legal team who won the case in 1973, said
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Scientists successfully grow plants in soil from the Moon
The ground-breaking experiment has given researchers hope that it may be possible to one day grow plants directly on the Moon. That would save future space missions much hassle and expense, facilitating longer and farther trips