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  • NewsThe Guardian

    Extortionate Easter eggs and shrinking sweets: fears grow of a ‘chocolate meltdown’

    Poor harvests in extreme weather conditions have led to a tripling of cocoa prices – but farmers have seen no benefit

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  • NewsThe Guardian

    Ireland’s smoking ban 20 years on: how an unheralded civil servant triumphed against big tobacco

    Tom Power led an alliance that brought about the pioneering health initiative which has since been adopted by more than 70 countries – and has saved countless lives

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  • NewsAFP

    'A unique place': foreigners visit post-war Afghanistan

    His soldier son toured Afghanistan with insurgents in his crosshairs, but American traveller Oscar Wells has a different objective -- sight-seeing promoted by the Taliban's fledgling tourism sector.Marvelling at the 15th century Blue Mosque in northern Mazar-i-Sharif, Wells is among a small but rising number of travellers coming to Afghanistan since the war's end.

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Eight-year-old only survivor after bus carrying Easter worshippers plunges off bridge, killing 45

    Child survivor receiving medical attention after sustaining severe injuries, authorities say

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  • NewsAFP

    False posts claim '8 million Buddhists killed' in Indonesia anti-communist purges

    Posts repeatedly shared in Myanmar falsely claimed Muslims massacred "eight million Buddhists" in Indonesia in 1965, completely wiping out Buddhism in the archipelago. Multiple scholars told AFP the posts, which shared unrelated photos, misrepresented mass killings in Indonesia in the mid-1960s which they said targeted communists and not Buddhists. The latest government data showed there were around two million Buddhists in Muslim-majority Indonesia as of 2022 .

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  • NewsFrance 24

    🔴 Live: Israeli strike kills at least 36 Syrian soldiers near Aleppo

    Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa formed a new cabinet on Thursday in which he will also serve as foreign minister, making an immediate ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal from Gaza a top priority. France will provide over 30 million euros ($32.41 million) to UNRWA, the embattled United Nations Palestinian refugee agency, this year to support its operations in Gaza, the French foreign ministry said. Israel has not received every weapon that it has sought from its US ally, in part because

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Easter travel – live: Storm Nelson brings bank holiday chaos as planes can’t land and flooding cancels trains

    Journeys on popular routes such as the M25 are expected to take twice as long

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