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Asia
The stolen children
In the shadow of the whitewashed Catholic church in Ainaro, Timor-Leste, Kalistru walked down the steps onto the dusty road. Anne Barker ABC News & Foreign Correspondent He was just…
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Analysis
Australia’s media has been too white for too long.
The case for a more diverse and representative media should be clear by now – it’s been made time and time again. Janak Rogers The Conversation But it’s instructive to…
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Environment and Climate Change
How humans are altering the tides of the oceans
In the mid-2000s Talke was a postdoctoral scholar at Utrecht University, studying the river Ems that empties into the North Sea between Germany and the Netherlands. Alexandra Witze BBC Decades…
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Economy
Cruise ship staff still adrift after 110 days and counting
Thousands of cruise ship workers, including some Australians, are still trapped on ships unable to dock because of COVID-19 restrictions. Candance Sutton news.com.au Many are no longer being paid, and…
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Asia
US sends carriers to S China Sea during Chinese drills
China and the United States have accused each other of stoking tension in the strategic waterway at a time of strained relations over everything from the… Reuters Hurriyet The USS…
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Analysis
Shillings, gods and runes: clues in language suggest a Semitic…
New research suggests the words for these coins and other culturally important items and concepts are the result of close contact between the early Germanic people and the Carthaginian Empire…
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Europe
Coronavirus update: Spain imposes second local lockdown in areas with…
In the US, new case numbers have dropped under 50,000 for the first time in four days but there are fears of surges in infections coming from Independence Day celebrations.…
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Australasia
Finance Minister Mathias Cormann to quit federal politics by end…
Senator Cormann is the Government’s chief negotiator in the Upper House. Jordan Hayne ABC News The West Australian senator was elected in… Finance Minister Mathias…
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Equality
Image of Thomas Jefferson alongside Black descendant holds ‘a mirror’…
Shannon LaNier, a ninth-generation descendant of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings, wore the same sort of outfit as his famous ancestor for a… Shamar Walters and…
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Environment and Climate Change
Rapid Arctic meltdown in Siberia alarms scientists
“It just felt like you couldn’t breathe at all,” said Deyev, 32, who lives in Irkutsk, a Siberian region along Lake Baikal, just north of the Mongolian border. Authors The…
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Europe
High court hears legal challenge to England’s lockdown restrictions
The government’s lockdown, which has closed schools, premises and companies while limiting free movement, is the “most sweeping and far-reaching” restriction on… Owen Bowcott The Guardian In a challenge to…
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Africa
Defusing Ethiopia’s Latest Perilous Crisis
Authorities and opposition leaders should call for calm and engage in sustained dialogue to bridge the bitter divisions. ICG A wave of deadly violence ripped through Ethiopia’s capital and much…