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- THOMAS SUEN and RYAN WOO
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- ERANGA JAYAWARDENA
Colombo, Sri Lanka
AP
Sri Lankan protesters lit flames and offered prayers Wednesday remembering thousands - including ethnic Tamil civilians - killed in the final stages of the country’s decades-long civil war, in the first-ever event where mostly majority ethnic Sinhalese openly memorialised the minority group.
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- Samantha Elley
Lismore, New South Wales, Australia
In the early hours of 28th February, CentreChurch, Lismore, fell victim to the catastrophic inundation of water that has become the worst recorded flood in Lismore’s history.
Nestled between a real estate agent and an anti-ageing clinic, the church has a congregation of

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- JAKE SPRING
The world's oceans grew to their warmest and most acidic levels on record last year, the World Meteorological Organization said on Wednesday, as United Nations officials warned that war in Ukraine threatened global climate commitments.
Oceans saw the most striking extremes as the WMO detailed a range

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- ALEXANDER WINNING
A leading human rights watchdog said on Wednesday it had documented further cases of "apparent war crimes" by Russian troops in two regions in Ukraine.
Human Rights Watch said in a report that Russian forces controlling much of the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions from late February through March

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- MAX HUNDER
Kyiv/Mariupol, Ukraine
Reuters
Russia said on Wednesday nearly 700 more Ukrainian fighters had surrendered in Mariupol, while the United States became the latest Western country to reopen its Kyiv embassy after a three-month closure.
More than a day after Ukraine announced it had ordered its garrison in
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- ZARIR HUSSAIN
Guwahati, India
Reuters
More than 500,000 people have fled their homes in India's north-eastern state of Assam to escape heavy floods triggered by pre-monsoon rains that drowned seven, authorities said on Wednesday, as they warned the situation could worsen.
One of the world's largest rivers, the Brahmaputra,

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- RENJU JOSE
Sydney, Australia
Reuters
Australia's national election has become too close to call, polls out on Wednesday showed, as the ruling conservative coalition narrowed the gap with the main opposition Labor Party, three days before the country decides on a new government.
Centre-left Labor's lead over the Liberal-National coalition

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- DAPHNE PSALEDAKIS
Washington DC, US
Reuters
The US State Department on Tuesday announced the launch of a new program to capture and analyze evidence of war crimes and other atrocities allegedly perpetrated by Russia in Ukraine, as Washington seeks to ensure Moscow is held accountable for its actions.
The State

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The defence chief of Myanmar's shadow government has called for international help to arm its resistance forces fighting the ruling military, requesting support similar to that being given to Ukrainians battling invading Russian troops.
The people of Ukraine and Myanmar's pro-democracy militias are all fighting for
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