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Japan regulator OKs release of treated Fukushima water
Japan's nuclear regulator on Friday formally approved a plan to release more than a million tonnes of treated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean.
Kenyan poll body slams arrest of vote contractors
Kenya's electoral authority has condemned the "brazen" arrest in Nairobi of three officials from a company supplying electronic voting systems for next month's presidential. "The brazen decision of the security authorities to arrest, detain and confine in a solitary hideout the three personnel without justification, is an exhibition of intimidation," it said.
Russian air strike on Syria kills seven: monitor
A Russian air strike killed seven people, four of them children, in Syria's rebel-held Idlib region on Friday, a war monitor said. Syria's war has killed nearly half a million people and forced around half of the country's pre-war population from their homes. aya/it
Storks give up migrating to live on landfill in Spain
At a sprawling landfill near Madrid, hundreds of white storks dodge garbage trucks as they look for scraps of food among the mountains of multicoloured garbage bags. - Garbage 'buffet' - Soriano estimates that "about 70 percent of storks no longer migrate" to Africa, mainly because of the easily available food they can find in Spain in landfills.
Millions hungry but drought overlooked as Kenya prepares to vote
In the dust bowl of Kenya's drought-stricken north, the people of Purapul are edging closer to starvation, surviving on nothing but wild berries as their children waste away from hunger. At least 18 million people across the Horn of Africa are facing severe hunger as the worst drought in 40 years devastates the region.
Pope to visit Canada on 'penitential pilgrimage'
Pope Francis departs Sunday for a historic six-day visit to Canada where he is expected to ask forgiveness of Indigenous survivors of abuse committed at residential schools run by the Catholic Church.
Sri Lanka troops demolish main protest camp
Sri Lankan security forces demolished the main anti-government protest camp in the capital, evicting activists in a nighttime assault that raised international concern. In a statement, police said: "Police and security forces acted to clear protesters occupying the Presidential Secretariat, the main gate and the surroundings.
Five months on, anger and despair prevail in Donbas
Fatigue, despair and anger are prevalent in eastern Ukraine after five months of what volunteer humanitarian aid worker Oleksiy Yukov calls "a war without mercy that has gone crazy". A woman in Bakhmut on the frontline points at journalists, her face tense with anger, calling them "harbingers of misfortune" in the ruins of her pharmacy, destroyed by a missile she thinks was Ukrainian.
'Work to be done': aviation still overwhelmingly male
Rebecca Lutte regularly takes to the skies behind the controls of her RV-10 kit plane. Lutte, who is often joined in the air by her husband in the passenger seat, says that on several occasions air traffic controllers asked if her spouse was there in case of problems.
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