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    'Fuel for water': Heatwave piles misery on Myanmar displaced

    Zay Yar Tun fills his truck with water for delivery to refugees in the parched hills of war-ravaged eastern Myanmar, where a heatwave is adding to the misery of life in displacement camps.Now, a heatwave that has sent the mercury in Myanmar to 48 degrees Celsius (118 Fahrenheit) in some places has added to uncertainties of life in the camps.

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Local elections results 2024 - live: Labour take Blackpool South with huge swing as Tories edge Reform UK

    Sir Keir Starmer said Labour’s win in Blackpool South was ‘truly historic’ and the ‘most important result’ nationally

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    Cockfights still rule the roost in India's forest villages

    The swing of a talon and a flurry of feathers leaves a rooster motionless, a cockfight bout viewed as cruel by many but which binds disparate Indian forest communities together.But the men living in Bastar's forests see it as an integral part of their community fabric.

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    Greenland women seek justice over forced contraception

    Henriette Berthelsen was separated from her family at 11 and forced to wear a contraceptive coil, a trauma she buried until she and 142 other Greenlandic women sued the Danish state.Now 66, Berthelsen is one of the 143 Greenland Inuits who have sued the Danish state for violating their rights during its forced contraception campaign from the 1960s to 1980.

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  • NewsThe Telegraph

    Tories lose Blackpool South by-election with just 100 votes more than Reform

    The Conservatives have lost the Blackpool South by-election to Labour, beating Reform UK to second place with just over 100 votes.

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kyiv troops say defensive lines ‘barely exist’ as Putin flaunts captured US tanks

    Ukrainian troops are battling to build stronger defences as Russian advances plough through

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  • NewsStoryful

    Man Drives Towards Crowd at PSU and Sprays Protesters

    A man drove through a crowd of protesters at Portland State University in Oregon on Thursday, May 2, before spraying people in the the crowd and running away.Christopher Landis said he filmed this video showing the car driving towards the crowd of protesters on Thursday.A man in the background yells “get away from the car” in an attempt to warn the protesters.Another man approaches the car and is sprayed.“The driver exit[s] the vehicle and flees carrying a can of bear mace, spraying multiple peo

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