South Korean adoption agency owes Adam Crapser damages, court says

South Korean adoption agency owes Adam Crapser damages, court says

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Comment on this storyComment correction An earlier version of this article incorrectly named the adoption agency ordered by a Korean court to pay damages to an adoptee. It was Holt Children’s Services, not Holt International Children’s Services. The story also misspelled the name of one of Adam Crapser’s adoptive parents….

G-7 summit in Hiroshima draws unlikely audience: Japanese livestreamers

G-7 summit in Hiroshima draws unlikely audience: Japanese livestreamers

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Comment on this storyComment HIROSHIMA, Japan — The gathering of world leaders here has attracted an unlikely audience online: Japanese youths glued to more than 72 hours of summitry and offering real-time commentary on a livestreaming site popular among anime fans. And they had a lot to say. President Biden…

Advocating for sustainable water ‘gamechangers’, Kőrösi goes West — Global Issues

Advocating for sustainable water ‘gamechangers’, Kőrösi goes West — Global Issues

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That was the message from the President of the UN General Assembly, Csaba Kőrösi, on an official visit to Salt Lake City in Utah, where he met with top state officials, students and academics, and local community members. “There are commonalities because the entire world is in a water crisis,…

G7 nations, ‘central to climate action’ says Guterres, calling for global reset — Global Issues

G7 nations, ‘central to climate action’ says Guterres, calling for global reset — Global Issues

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The G7, which consists of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, together with the European Union, is meeting in the city where the first atomic bomb was dropped in 1945, a place which Secretary-General António Guterres described, as a “testament to the human spirit”….

Advocating for sustainable water ‘gamechangers’, Kőrösi goes West — Global Issues

Progress on human health ‘in peril’, warns UN chief — Global Issues

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Secretary-General António Guterres was addressing the annual opening of the World Health Assembly, the decision making body of the WHO, and said that the agency was born out of a spirit of cooperation, leading to dramatic improvements in human health. “Global life expectancy – up over 50 percent; Infant mortality…

Russia-Ukraine war news: Zelensky hails Bakhmut defenders at G-7; U.S. unveils 5M in military aid

Russia-Ukraine war news: Zelensky hails Bakhmut defenders at G-7; U.S. unveils $375M in military aid

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HIROSHIMA, Japan — President Biden unveiled a $375 million military assistance package for Ukraine at the Group of Seven summit on Sunday, the latest pledge from Washington of aid that totals $37 billion since the war began. “The United States continues to help Ukraine respond, recover and rebuild,” Biden said,…

Better Mapping of Erosion Risk Areas Needed More Than Ever — Global Issues

Better Mapping of Erosion Risk Areas Needed More Than Ever — Global Issues

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Some climate scientists said it was unfortunate that western Rwanda experienced flooding despite past investments. For example, some experts were previously convinced that Sebeya, one of the rivers originating in the mountains of western Rwanda, was no longer a threat to the community. Credit: Aimable Twahirwa/IPS by Aimable Twahirwa (kigali) Friday,…

New Constitution in the Hands of the Far Right — Global Issues

New Constitution in the Hands of the Far Right — Global Issues

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Credit: Martín Bernetti/AFP via Getty Images Opinion by Ines M Pousadela (montevideo, uruguay) Friday, May 19, 2023 Inter Press Service MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, May 19 (IPS) – On 7 May, Chileans went to the polls to choose a Constitutional Council that will produce a new constitution to replace the one bequeathed by…