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COVID School Chaos, Snapshots From 10 Countries Around The World
School, they say, is where the future is built. The next generation’s classroom learning is crucial, but schools also represent an opportunity for children to socialize, get help for special needs …...
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Games Of The Absurd: Beijing’s Olympics Of Politics And Pandemic
-Analysis-The Olympic script includes the invoking of the spirit of friendly competition as a respite from geopolitics. Yet the global sporting event has long struggled to separate itself from the...
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How Courts Around The World Are Stripping No-Vaxxers Of Parental Rights
It is a parent’s worst nightmare to find out their child needs heart surgery. When it happened to the parents of a two-year-old child in the central Italian city of Modena, there was something extra...
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Less Than A Rat? The Case For Treating Insects More Humanely In Lab Research
-Analysis-Bees have long impressed behavioral scientist Lars Chittka. In his lab at Queen Mary University of London, the pollinators have proven themselves capable of counting, using simple tools, and...
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Risks Of Reinfection And Long COVID: The Pandemic Is Not Over
The latest Omicron variant BA.5 is fast becoming dominant worldwide, including in New Zealand and Australia. As it continues to surge, reinfection will become increasingly common and this in turn...
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Not My Problem: Individual Responsibility And Government Abuse Of Asylum Seekers
-OpEd-As one of its first acts in government, the newly elected Labor government turned back a boat of Sri Lankan asylum seekers trying to enter Australia.Labor has vowed to continue Operation...
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The Laugh Frontier: Can AI Understand Irony?
What was your first reaction when you heard about Blake Lemoine, the Google engineer who announced last month the AI program he was working on had developed consciousness?If, like me, you’re...
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How Airbnb Created A Homeless Crisis In An Idyllic Australian Town
BYRON BAY — It's a scene that is repeated almost every evening. Small groups form on the seafront, some take out a guitar around an improvised campfire among the rocks, a few acrobats hypnotize...
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How Rich Western Countries Pay To Send Refugees Away
The UK government was due to begin its first deportation flight to remove asylum-seekers to the East African country of Rwanda on June 14, 2022, exactly two months after signing the UK-Rwanda...
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All Eyes On Southern Ukraine, Baghdad Clashes, Pumpkin Ride
👋 Da'anzho!*Welcome to Tuesday, where Ukraine launches a counteroffensive to retake Kherson in the south of the country, deadly clashes rock Iraq after cleric al-Sadr resigns, and the world record for...
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Work → In Progress: Time To Change Everything Or Back To Business As Usual?
The world of work is at a crossroads. A new French study published last week shows that in the span of four years, jobs offering remote work have increased tenfold since 2017, as the world grapples...
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Why More Countries Are Banning Foreigners From Buying Real Estate
PARIS — It’s easy to forget that soon after the outbreak of COVID-19, many real estate experts were forecasting that housing prices could face a once-in-generation drop. The logic was that a shrinking...
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The Australian Dream: Lived, Loved And Lost By Yearning Italian Youth
MILAN — “The last two days it was 35 degrees, but last week we got over 40.” It’s December. As he speaks to me, it is just past 10 p.m. for Alberto Bellini, while here, in cold, wintery Milan, the...
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AUKUS: Bold Deterrent Or Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Of A Future War With China?
-Analysis-You might remember AUKUS, the security pact between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Under the pact, the US and UK will assist Australia in acquiring nuclear-powered...
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What Explains Such Uneven Progress Of LGBTQ+ Rights Around The World
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong joined 50,000 people to march in support of queer rights across the Sydney Harbour Bridge for World Pride in early March. A week...
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This Happened — May 14: Cate Blanchett Is Born
Cate Blanchett was born on this day in 1969. Blanchett is an Australian actress known for her roles in film, television, and theater. She has won multiple awards, including two Academy Awards, three...
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Austrian Croissant? Danish Feta? CouscousGate? Gastronationalism Is Flaring...
PARIS — Have you ever enjoyed a croissant with coffee on a Paris sidewalk cafe? That's usually the image the French pastry evokes. But while many people think the croissant comes from France, it was...
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Bounties On Hong Kong Activists Show Beijing Will Go Anywhere To Stifle Dissent
-Analysis-MELBOURNE — The Hong Kong government has extended its efforts to suppress political dissent overseas, issuing arrest warrants earlier this week for eight exiled pro-democracy figures and...
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Why Your Vacation Countdown Is Even Better For Your Health Than The Vacation...
You have spent the past few days on a cloud over your forthcoming, well-deserved holidays, and will go back to daydreaming about them as soon as you finish this article. And the truth is that the...
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Goodbye, Greek Beach? Tourism In The Era Of "Global Boiling"
-Analysis-Thousands of people on the beach. Children reportedly falling off evacuation boats. Panic. People fleeing with the clothes on their backs. It felt like “the end of the world”, according to...
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