Here's how much Bill and Melinda Gates have given away

While Bill and Melinda Gates’ marriage may be ending after 27 years, their commitment to leaving the world a better place is not. Their eponymous foundation “works all over the world to enable all people to lead healthy, productive lives,” the couple noted in their divorce announcement on Monday. “We continue to share a belief in that mission and will […]

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India accounts for 46% of world's new COVID-19 cases, quarter of deaths

GENEVA (Reuters) -India accounted for 46% of the new COVID-19 cases recorded worldwide last week and one in four of deaths, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.  The surge of the coronavirus in India, including of a highly infectious new variant first identified there, has seen hospitals runs out of beds and oxygen, and morgues and crematoriums overflowing. […]

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What's happening in Colombia? Latest updates

DOZENS of people have died and about 90 are missing after a brutal police crackdown on anti-government protests in Colombia. The European Union has urged cops to stop being so heavy-handed, while human rights officials are "deeply alarmed" by reports of police shootings. What's happening in Colombia? Cops have been "opening fire on demonstrators” in the Colombian city of Cali, […]

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Machete-wielding teen, 18, storms nursery slaughtering 3 babies & 2 workers as staff hid terrified kids in changing room

A MACHETE-WIELDING attacker killed two female teachers and three babies in a bloodbath at a day-care centre. The 18-year-old suspect butchered his victims after storming the Aquarela centre in Saudades, Brazil, yesterday, police told G1. Terrified staff hid in a room with other children as the attacker slaughtered his victims. Keli Adriane Aniecevski, 30, and Mirla Renner, 20, and three […]

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Teuila Fuatai: What council action on alt-right duo Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux tells us

OPINION: It’s official. The Bruce Mason centre, owned by Auckland Council, did not behave illegally when it cancelled alt-right speakers Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux more than two years ago. Detailed in a Court of Appeal judgment released last week, Regional Facilities Auckland (RFA) – the council-owned company which runs the venue – was found to be justified in its […]

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Judge orders Kevin Spacey accuser to reveal his identity

NEW YORK (AP) — A man accusing Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey of sexually abusing him in the 1980s when he was 14 cannot proceed anonymously in court, a judge ruled Monday. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan in Manhattan refused to let the man proceed only as “C.D.” in a lawsuit filed in September in New York state court and […]

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