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Backlash strikes campaign encouraging pensioners to donate to child poverty Old-Age Poverty

Backlash strikes campaign encouraging pensioners to donate to child poverty

SUPPLIEDSpend My Super erected an installation of 160 pictures of babies at Britomart, Auckland, to highlight the problem of children born into poverty.A campaign encouraging wealthy superannuitants to donate their pension to combat child poverty has met with a backlash online. Spend My Super erected an installation of 160 pictures…
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February 28, 2020
Sun Yang, 3-time Olympic gold medalist, banned 8 years in controversial drug testing case Doping Test

Sun Yang, 3-time Olympic gold medalist, banned 8 years in controversial drug testing case

China's Sun Yang will not be able to compete in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after CAS banned him for eight years. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)Sun Yang, China’s most decorated swimmer and one of the sport’s biggest stars, was banned for eight years on Friday for breaking anti-doping rules in an incident…
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February 28, 2020
When the Billionaire Family Behind the Opioid Crisis Needed PR Help, They Turned to Mike Bloomberg Oxycodone

When the Billionaire Family Behind the Opioid Crisis Needed PR Help, They Turned to Mike Bloomberg

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Long celebrated as civic-minded philanthropists, the Sacklers were becoming pariahs. The billionaire family whose company created and pushed the addictive painkiller OxyContin had managed to escape connection…
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February 28, 2020
Bulgarian PM to meet Turkey’s Erdogan on Monday amid migrant worries Syria

Bulgarian PM to meet Turkey’s Erdogan on Monday amid migrant worries

FILE PHOTO - Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov leaves the second day of the European Union leaders summit, held to discuss the EU's long-term budget for 2021-2027, in Brussels, Belgium, February 21, 2020. REUTERS/Francois LenoirSOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria has seen no significant increase in migrants breaching its border with Turkey,…
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February 28, 2020
Luke Rathborne Takes You on a Frenetic Ride Through Late Night New York In ‘Ordinary Woes’ Video Times Square

Luke Rathborne Takes You on a Frenetic Ride Through Late Night New York In ‘Ordinary Woes’ Video

James Strosahl Luke Rathborne Living in New York City can be as emotionally energizing as it can be destabilizing – oftentimes within the same hour. And it's that frantic dichotomy that Maine-born, NYC-based singer-songwriter Luke Rathborne beautifully captures in "Ordinary Woes," a one-take rocker that deftly teeters between exhilaration and…
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February 28, 2020
UK to call for U.N. Security Council meeting after Turkish troops killed in Syria Syria

UK to call for U.N. Security Council meeting after Turkish troops killed in Syria

FILE PHOTO: Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign affairs Dominic Raab is seen outside Downing Street in London,, February 14, 2020. REUTERS/Peter NichollsLONDON (Reuters) - Britain said it will be calling for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Friday after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed by…
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February 28, 2020
Indians hold religious freedom dearer than free media, speech or judiciary: Pew survey Free Internet

Indians hold religious freedom dearer than free media, speech or judiciary: Pew survey

Freedom of religion, at 78%, remained the top priority for Indians in 2019, significantly eclipsing the levels of support for a free media, freedom of speech and a fair judiciary, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Only 37% Indians believe it is very important to have a free…
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February 28, 2020
France calls on Syria, Russia to end offensive, offers Turkey help on refugees Syria

France calls on Syria, Russia to end offensive, offers Turkey help on refugees

FILE PHOTO: France's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian attends a one day Italo-Franco summit in Naples, Italy February 27, 2020. REUTERS/Ciro De LucaPARIS (Reuters) - France on Friday called on Russia and the Syrian government to end their offensive in northwestern Syria and said Europe was ready to…
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February 28, 2020