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Snares which leave their mark
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 06/03/2022
» Paula White, a wildlife biologist, was examining lion skulls to estimate the animals' ages when she noticed something strange about their teeth. Instead of just showing the normal, gradual wear that happens over time, a sharp, V-shaped notch was cut into the back edge of some of the big cats' canines.
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Gene therapy could curb stray cat problem
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/07/2023
» For all the cats who share our homes as companion animals, there is a vast shadow world of strays -- a sprawling and fast-breeding crowd.
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Bill Nighy, master of misdirection
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 29/01/2023
» British actor Bill Nighy was trying to describe how he prepared for his character in the new drama Living. He plays Mr Williams, a buttoned-up, almost catatonically reticent bureaucrat in post-World War II London who, upon learning that he is dying, decides finally to live.
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Tears, anger on 'Joola' sinking anniversary
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 16/10/2022
» Up on the deck, dozens of university students played cards. In the first-class cabins below, passengers watched the movie Air Force One. In an overcrowded third-class compartment, a teenage football team on its way to a tournament belted out songs.
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Vietnam poachers charged for killing langurs
Published on 13/04/2015
» HANOI — Five people have been charged with killing three primates listed as endangered by International Union for the Conservation of Nature, a Danang official said Monday.
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Once the enemy, majestic condor wins hearts of Colombian farmers
AFP, Published on 15/12/2023
» CERRITO (COLOMBIA) - A group of condors rip into the carcass of a calf at the top of a Colombian mountain which rises 4,200 metres above sea level.
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Wellington welcomes first wild-born kiwi chicks in a century
AFP, Published on 05/12/2023
» WELLINGTON - Conservationists in New Zealand celebrated on Tuesday after discovering that kiwi chicks had been born in the wilds around Wellington for the first time in more than a century.
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Erdogan weighs in on bank scam involving Turkish stars
AFP, Published on 02/12/2023
» ISTANBUL - President Recep Tayyip on Saturday urged Turks to steer clear of pyramid schemes as a scandal raged at a top bank that allegedly defrauded celebrities and football stars of millions of dollars.
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One month on, Gaza war set to intensify
AFP, Published on 07/11/2023
» JERUSALEM - Israel's deadliest ever war in Gaza, sparked by the Oct 7 Hamas attacks, entered its second month Tuesday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed there would be no ceasefire until the militant group releases its 240 hostages.
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'Air-pocalypse': Indian capital launches 'Green War Room'
AFP, Published on 03/11/2023
» NEW DELHI - The enemy is nearly invisible and there are no soldiers, but the Indian capital's new "Green War Room" is battling air pollution that is cutting lives of residents by over a decade.
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