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- EMMA BATHA
London, UK
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The ocean could provide over six times more food than it does now with better management and more technological innovation, scientists said on Tuesday, adding that boosting cultivation of bivalves like mussels and clams could be especially beneficial.
They estimated the oceans could
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- NITA BHALLA
Nairobi, Kenya
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Kenya will launch its first localised weather modelling system early next year, providing key data on how climate change will impact crop production across the east African nation in the decades to come, the project's founder said on Tuesday.
Developed by researchers at
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- BEH LIH YI
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Singapore warned on Tuesday that it would take "strong" action against labour trafficking after an Indian couple was found guilty of exploiting migrant women, the first such conviction in the affluent city-state.
The two Indian nationals were convicted for exploiting three Bangladeshi
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- JIBRAN AHMED and HAMID SHALIZI
Peshawar, Pakistan/Kabul, Afghanistan
Reuters
The Afghan Taliban released American and Australian university professors held hostage for more than three years on Tuesday, Afghan, US and Australian officials said, completing a delayed prisoner swap and raising hopes for a revival of peace talks.
American Kevin King and Australian Timothy
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- DONNY KWOK and CLARE JIM
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- LAURIE GOERING
London, UK
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Population growth and climate change are putting increasingly intense pressure on the planet's limited water supplies, with worsening shortages emerging from the Middle East to Asia and Latin America, researchers and bankers said on Monday.
"All the local crises around the world are
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A Christian in Iran convicted of conducting evangelistic activities began a mandated two years in exile this month in a remote area on the border with Pakistan, sources said.
As part of a larger prison sentence delivered in 2013, Ebrahim Firoozi, 33, was sentenced to
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- JACK JENKINS
Washington, DC
RNS
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday that the US is softening its position on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, rejecting a 1978 State Department legal opinion that concluded Israeli settlements in the region are “inconsistent with international law".
Speaking to
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London, UK
Thomson Reuters Foundation
US fast-food chain Chick-fil-A said on Monday it had stopped funding two Christian organisations, including The Salvation Army, that have come under fire from LGBT+ campaigners.
The fast-food chain's charitable arm, Chick-fil-A Foundation, donated millions of dollars over a period of years to
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- Jan Wolfe and Sarah N Lynch
Washington DC, US
Reuters
US President Donald Trump on Monday said for the first time that he might be willing to testify in the impeachment inquiry over his dealings with Ukraine, even as Democrats questioned the truthfulness of his testimony in the Russia 2016 election interference probe.
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Melbourne, Australia
Reuters
Australia's Pentecostal prime minister on Monday rebuked a former national rugby star who claimed recent deadly bushfires and a devastating drought were God's punishment for the country allowing same-sex marriage and abortion.
Israel Folau, who was sacked from a multi-million dollar rugby contract in May
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- ANNIE BANERJI
London, UK
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Providing free bus travel for female commuters in Delhi should help more women join the workforce and improve their safety but a lot more needs to be done to give them better access to public life, according to one of India's top court
