Current Affairs
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Tourism
Holidays: Little-known trick for bagging ‘last-minute bargains’ this summer
express– Holidays are eagerly anticipated by countless Britons who have been travel-starved for nearly a year. However, while the roadmap…
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Science
Food waste: Amount thrown away totals 900 million tonnes
BBC– More than 900 million tonnes of food is thrown away every year, according to a global report. The UN Environment…
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Gillian Welch: ‘If you keep artists away from their art for too long, we start to go insane’
independent– Next Sunday’s virtual Grammy Awards will be fairly different from the extravagant bash we’ve come to recognise. No headline-grabbing…
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Business
‘It’s scary’: Shoppers give verdict on Amazon’s futuristic till-free supermarket
Suburban west Londoners were given a glimpse of the future on Thursday morning. And where some found it “magical,” others…
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Tech
DANGEROUS AND EXTREMIST CONTENT ‘CONTINUES TO FLOURISH’ ON YOUTUBE, US LAWMAKERS WARN
independent– US lawmakers have asked Google CEO Sundar Pichai to explain YouTube’s policies surrounding extremism on its platform. Democrats on the Energy…
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Politics
‘The police just shot’: the terror inflicted on Myanmar’s protesters
theguardian– Early on Wednesday morning, the protests building in North Okkalapa, in Yangon, Myanmar, seemed peaceful. “I saw around three or…
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Health
Italy blocks export of 250,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses to Australia
theguardian– Italy has blocked the export of 250,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine to Australia in an escalation of a row…
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News
Amnesty strips Alexei Navalny of ‘prisoner of conscience’ status
theguardian– Amnesty International has said it will cease calling Alexei Navalny a “prisoner of conscience”, following pressure to condemn anti-migrant…
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Tourism
The best places in the world for a socially distanced holiday
ndependent– All leisure travel, both international and domestic, is currently illegal in the UK – but the government’s latest announcement…
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Science
Conservationists release 10 orangutans into the wild in Indonesia
independent– Orangutans, the world’s largest tree-climbing mammals, are critically endangered largely due to deforestation across Indonesia and Malaysia, where all three species are at…
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