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Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 18 February 2022

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A comprehensive new map and report tracking whale migrations around the globe highlights where they go in the high seas and the cumulative impacts the animals face from human activity

Details: Written by JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press; Published: 07 February 2022

Not from political leaders, but from well-known people in Israel and Palestine a new proposal for a two-state confederation has emerged raising hopes for a way forward after a decade-long stalemate in Mideast peace efforts

Details: Written by By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer; Published: 06 October 2021

(AP Photo/Jerome Delay, file)

The World Health Organization on Wednesday endorsed the world's first malaria vaccine

Details: Written by ALAN SUDERMAN, FRANK BAJAK and RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press; Published: 01 October 2021

Outsiders have long profited from Africa’s riches of gold, diamonds, and even people. Now they are taking plundering millions of Internet addresses

Details: Written by By SALLY HO Associated Press; Published: 28 September 2021

(UN Web TV via AP)

More than a year after Black Lives Matter protests launched a worldwide reckoning about the centuries of racism that Black people continue to face, the question of reparations emerged — unevenly — as a high-profile issue at this year’s largest gathering of world leaders.

Details: Written by MARK STEVENSON and EVENS SANON Associated Press; Published: 16 August 2021

(AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)

The country’s Civil Protection Agency said 1,297 dead from the magnitude 7.2 earthquake had been counted by Sunday, a day after the temblor turned thousands of structures into rubble

Details: Written by REGINA GARCIA CANO and EVENS SANON Associated Press; Published: 15 August 2021

A powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake added to the misery in Haiti, killing at least 304 people, injuring a minimum of 1,800 others and destroying hundreds of homes

Details: Written by By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press; Published: 01 July 2021

(AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Debate about the role of Amsterdam’s city fathers in the slave trade has been going on for years, but it has gained more attention following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis

Details: Written by The Associated Press; Published: 28 October 2020

A man smiles beneath his protective face mask after receiving a box of donated food intended residents of the Corona neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

A mid-stage study suggests the drug may help mild to moderately ill COVID-19 patients clear the virus sooner. There were hints the drug might help avoid hospitalization.

Details: Written by NICOLE WINFIELD, COLLEEN BARRY and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press; Published: 11 March 2020

Workers wearing protective gears disinfect as a precaution against the new coronavirus at the subway station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 11, 2020. (Kim Sun-woong/Newsis via AP)

World Health Organization said that Iran and Italy are the new front lines of the battle against the virus that started in China and added that it's not too late for countries to act

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