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‘Prison bakery’ found in ancient Pompeii
AFP, Published on 09/12/2023
» ROME - Archaeologists excavating the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have uncovered a "prison bakery" where slaves and blindfolded donkeys were kept locked up underground to grind grain for bread, officials said this week.
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Oil, gas firms use Ukraine war to resist climate efforts: report
AFP, Published on 25/05/2022
» PARIS - US oil and gas firms took advantage of energy worries over the Ukraine war to push their fossil fuel products and resist climate change regulatory measures, an analysis showed on Wednesday.
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Fact check: Climate change myths
AFP, Published on 28/10/2021
» PARIS: As world leaders prepare for the COP26 climate summit from Oct 31, AFP Fact Check examines some common claims that question the existence of global heating caused by humans.
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World Wide Web source code NFT sells for $5.4m
AFP, Published on 01/07/2021
» NEW YORK: Tim Berners-Lee's source code for the World Wide Web sold Wednesday for $5.4 million in the form of non-fungible token (NFT).
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Peru's Machu Picchu reopens for one tourist
AFP, Published on 13/10/2020
» LIMA: Peru's best-known tourist site Machu Picchu has opened after months of coronavirus closure, but for just a single visitor — a Japanese man stranded in the country by the pandemic.
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'Their voice is vital' - Thai celebs break silence on democracy protests
AFP, Published on 18/10/2020
» A K-pop superstar, beauty queens and TV personalities are among a growing wave of celebrities backing Thailand's pro-democracy movement, sending out messages of support to millions of followers on social media.
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Tiny dancer: Scientists decode meanings of bee waggle-dance
AFP, Published on 13/02/2020
» WASHINGTON: We've long known honey bees shake their behinds to communicate the location of high-value flower patches to one another, a form of signaling that scientists refer to as "waggle dances".
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At Instagram hotspot, LOLs trump likes
AFP, Published on 26/11/2019
» COLOGNE, Germany: Crammed into a supermarket trolley, Kiki Malliora squealed with laughter as she rolled past her sister at Cologne's pop-up selfie museum, where visitors said having fun outweighs the hunt for "likes" in a changing social media landscape.
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Yale in academic censorship row in Singapore
AFP, Published on 28/10/2019
» SINGAPORE: Yale's Singapore college has become embroiled in a row about academic freedom after axing a course on dissent, with the controversy fuelling a wider debate on whether universities are compromising their values to expand abroad.
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Another huge rally in Hong Kong as public anger boils
AFP, Published on 16/06/2019
» HONG KONG: Tens of thousands of people rallied in central Hong Kong on Sunday as public anger seethed following unprecedented clashes between protesters and police over an extradition law, despite a climbdown by the city's embattled leader.
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