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Ethiopia: Ethiopian Diplomats Funds Siphoned from Maids in Lebanon to Pay Off a U.S.-Based Lobby Firm Targeted Killings

Ethiopia: Ethiopian Diplomats Funds Siphoned from Maids in Lebanon to Pay Off a U.S.-Based Lobby Firm

Addis Abebe — Documents handed to Addis Standard by a whistleblower in late 2019 and our investigations that followed revealed that funds belonging to the Ethiopian expat community in Lebanon were misappropriated by the Ethiopian government and secretly used to pay $600,000 US worth of fees owed to an American…
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May 24, 2020
Sir David Attenborough: ‘Coronavirus pandemic has swept climate change off the front pages’ Climate Change

Sir David Attenborough: ‘Coronavirus pandemic has swept climate change off the front pages’

Sir David Attenborough - Sir David Attenborough: 'Coronavirus pandemic has swept climate change off the front pages' - APSir David Attenborough has said the coronavirus pandemic has swept the problem of climate change from the front pages.The broadcaster and naturalist, who celebrated his 94th birthday in May, said the outbreak has made…
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May 24, 2020
How much money YouTube pays creators with 100,000 subscribers per month, according to a fitness influencer Twinfluencer

How much money YouTube pays creators with 100,000 subscribers per month, according to a fitness influencer

Joe Farrington, 18, lives in the UK and posts fitness videos to his YouTube channel "Joe Fazer" with 139,000 subscribers. Farrington told Business Insider that he treats YouTube like a full-time job and earns money through sponsorships and ads in his videos. YouTube creators like Farrington earn money off the platform through…
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May 24, 2020
Coronavirus Lockdowns Stifle Eid Celebrations Globally As Infections Rise Mecca

Coronavirus Lockdowns Stifle Eid Celebrations Globally As Infections Rise

Eid 2020: Mecca's Grand Mosque has been almost devoid of worshippers since MarchRiyadh: Muslims around the world began marking a sombre Eid al-Fitr Sunday, many under coronavirus lockdown, but lax restrictions offered respite to worshippers in some countries despite fears of skyrocketing infections.The three-day festival, which marks the end of…
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May 24, 2020
Passing Behind Our Backs.”Everyone’s Life has a Shape, as if it Were a Drawing or Story or Song” Paul Newman

Passing Behind Our Backs.”Everyone’s Life has a Shape, as if it Were a Drawing or Story or Song”

I never met the great basketball player, Bob Cousy, the man known as “the Houdini of the Hardwood,” yet he somehow influenced my life in ways I never knew, or to be more accurate, in ways I didn’t reflect upon except in superficial ways.  He was the guy who brought…
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May 24, 2020