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Tech giant Meta has rolled back restrictions around topics such as gender and sexual identity, a sweeping move advocacy groups fear will fuel hate speech.The change coincides with the company’s shock announcement on Tuesday that it was ending its third-party fact-checking program in the United States and adopting a crowd-sourced model to police misinformation similar …

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Lucas Bergvall condemned Liverpool to only their second defeat this season as the teenager’s late strike earned Tottenham a controversial 1-0 win in the League Cup semi-final first leg on Wednesday.Bergvall struck with just four minutes left in north London, but Liverpool boss Arne Slot was furious that the Swede was still on the pitch …

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Scores of thousands of Catholic pilgrims swarmed the streets of Manila in search of a miracle Thursday, straining to reach a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ in an annual display of religious fervour.The procession to the Philippine capital’s Quiapo Church, which started before dawn after an open-air mass, was expected to swell to more than …

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Giovana Serrao was not home when a fire lit in a neighboring agricultural field got out of control and destroyed her acai palms on the island of Marajo in the Brazilian Amazon.Paulinho dos Santos remembers the dark nights in November when he would leap out of bed to use buckets of water to douse flames …

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Opponents of Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro condemned a new crackdown on his critics ahead of planned protests Thursday over his inauguration for a highly contested third term later this week.Opposition parties and NGOs reported a wave of detentions ahead of the protests, including a press freedom activist and a politician who ran against Maduro in …

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A-list actors, musicians and other celebrities were among the tens of thousands of people affected by terrifying wildfires in Los Angeles Wednesday, as the entertainment industry screeched to a halt amid the chaos.The showbiz capital has been besieged by multiple out-of-control blazes, with Hollywood events including a glitzy awards show and a Pamela Anderson film …

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Gunmen launched an attack on the presidential complex in Chad’s capital N’Djamena on Wednesday, sparking a battle that left 18 attackers and one security personnel member dead and several others injured, the government said.AFP reporters heard gunfire erupt near the site in N’Djamena, with tanks seen on the street, while security sources reported that armed …

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