Officials have extended the state of emergency in several regions until the end of the month. Source link
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“It’s completely unacceptable that security forces keep committing grave human rights violations such as those occurred in Jacarezinho against residents of the favelas, who are mostly Black and live in poverty,” Jurema Werneck, executive director of Amnesty International Brazil, said in a statement, calling it a “massacre”. Source link
The large protected birds are “messing with stuff and pooping everywhere”, the family says. Source link
Australian basketball star Liz Cambage says a promotional photo of Olympians lacks diversity. Source link
Meanwhile Australia’s Trade Minister, Dan Tehan, has said the country’s borders may not fully reopen until the middle or second half of 2022. Speaking to Sky News, Mr Tehan said he was hopeful that more travel corridors would be opened, like the one between Australia and New Zealand. Source link
Tracking radars are following closely the gradual fall to Earth of a large Chinese rocket vehicle. Source link
The social enterprise company that makes Atomik is run by scientists who work in the 4,000 square kilometre Chernobyl exclusion zone – an area abandoned after the catastrophic 1986 nuclear disaster. Their studies have included growing experimental crops to find out if grain, and other food grown in the zone, […]
The country is responsible for 27% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report. Source link
Democrats say the measures are voter suppression but Republicans say they protect election integrity. Source link
The girl, likely aged 11 or 12, shot and wounded two of her fellow students and a member of staff. Source link