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King Charles III was crowned at Westminster Abbey, in a ceremony steeped in ancient ritual and brimming with bling at a time when the monarchy is striving to remain relevant in a fractured modern Britain. Outside, thousands of troops, hundreds of thousands of spectators and scores of protesters converged

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A major new United Nations report being released Monday will  provide a sobering reminder that time is running out if humanity wants to avoid passing a dangerous global warming threshold. The report by hundreds of the world’s top scientists is the first to summarize the research on global warming compiled since the Paris climate accord was sealed in 2015

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This week, WHO officials confirmed that the Marburg virus was first found in the west African country, where it has already killed at least nine people.

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Blinken’s long-anticipated meetings with senior Chinese officials had been seen in both countries as a way to find some areas of common ground at a time of major disagreements

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen paid a solemn visit Saturday to the salmon-colored house on an island off Senegal that is one of the most recognized symbols of the horrors of the Atlantic slave trade

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What’s at stake as millions head to the ballot box around the globe

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The change in reporting practices comes the week after the country announced its most significant easing yet of antivirus measures.

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Protests against China's strict anti-virus controls spread to Shanghai and other cities as President Xi Jinping’s government faces mounting anger at its “zero-COVID” policy that has shut down access to areas throughout China in an attempt to isolate every case at a time when other governments are easing controls and trying to live with the virus.

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Tens of thousands of people have lost their homes and livelihoods as villages are swept away and crops aredevastated

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She will be formally sworn in as the president on Monday.

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