Authorities in the Indian capital city of Delhi, are taking a variety of steps to scare away monkeys from venues linked to the G20 summit including posting cardboard cutouts of large monkeys, and monkey impersonators. Life-size cut-outs of grey langur monkeys – which scare smaller monkeys – have been put up at various places and […]
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Chinese President Xi Jinping isn’t showing up in person at this week’s G20 summit in India, but a Chinese spokeswoman offered no explanation. Only recently Xi has been bigging himself and China up in an international leadership role at the BRICS summit in South Africa. Instead, Premier Li Qiang will represent China at the Sept. […]
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Thousands of people are stuck at a festival site in the Nevada desert after heavy rains swamped the area and created thick, ankle-deep mud which sticks to campers’ shoes and vehicle tires, making it impossible to drive. Campers have been told to stay put. Burning Man Festival-goers were told by authorities to shelter in place […]
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U.S. federal health regulators are proposing that the federal government loosen restrictions on marijuana and instead classify it as a Schedule III drug, putting it in a group with thereapeutic drugs rather than just classifying it as an illegal substance that has no known medical use. At the present time marijuana is legal in many […]
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It affects bananas and plantains from Ecuador to Florida. Chickens and turkeys from Chile to northern Europe. Liquid Natural Gas from the United States to Asia. And all kinds of consumer products that China sends to the West. The traffic jam that has been piling up on both sides of the Panama Canal is affecting […]
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More than a dozen people in various parts of the USA have been prosecuted for threatening election workers by a US Department of Justice unit trying to discourage threats against people who do the work or running polling stations and counting ballots on election days. Government employees are being bombarded with threats even in normally […]
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Small island nations in the Caribbean are among the countries in the world most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, including rising sea levels, coastal erosion, and stronger and more frequent hurricanes in the Atlantic hurricane corridor, says a recent article published by the Council on Foreign Relations, an “independent” American think tank. The […]
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American tourism-oriented singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, best known for his hit song Margaritaville–an escapist tribute to semi-tropical life– has died at the age of 76. “Jimmy passed away peacefully on the night of September 1st surrounded by his family, friends, music and dogs,” a statement posted to Buffett’s official website and social media pages said late […]
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Inmates in six Ecuadorian prisons have released 50 guards and seven police officers they had taken hostage, the prison service (SNAI) has said. The 57 freed hostages are “undergoing medical evaluation” but appear to be in good health, according to SNAI. The country’s corrections system, the National Service for Attention to Persons Deprived of Liberty, […]
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Paris on Friday became the first European capital to introduce a city-wide ban on self-service rented electric scooters after a local referendum massively called for the ban. The ban, which went into effect immediately, comes just two days after a 12-year-old girl was reportedly killed on an e-scooter after colliding with a car in Chessy, […]
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