Japanese zoo discovers hippo's sex after believing it was male for 7 years
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by Brad Matthews
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A hippo at the Tennoji Zoo in Osaka, Japan, was called a male for seven years after the zoo acquired it. Then came a recent DNA test, which found that the animal was a female ..read more
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Paris will become a no-fly zone to safeguard its wildly ambitious Olympic opening ceremony
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Skies over the Paris region will be closed for six hours as part of the massive security operation for the July 26 opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the Paris airports operator said Wednesday ..read more
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IAEA team inspects treated radioactive water release from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant
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by Mari Yamaguchi
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A team of experts from the U.N. nuclear agency inspected the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant Wednesday for a review of its discharge of treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific ..read more
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Indonesia declares Prabowo Subianto president-elect after court rejects rivals' appeal
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by Niniek Karmini, Fadlan Syam
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Indonesia's electoral commission formally declared Prabowo Subianto president-elect in a ceremony on Wednesday, after the country's highest court rejected challenges to his landslide victory lodged by two losing presidential candidates ..read more
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Ancestry website to catalogue names of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II
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The names of thousands of people held in Japanese American incarceration camps during World War II will be digitized and made available for free, genealogy company Ancestry announced Wednesday ..read more
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Germany will resume working with U.N. relief agency for Palestinians after a review
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Germany said Wednesday that it plans to follow several other countries in resuming cooperation with the U.N. relief agency for Palestinians in Gaza after the publication of an independent review of its neutrality ..read more
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Ukrainian officials thank the U.S. for its latest military aid to help stop Russia's onslaught
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by Illia Novikov
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Ukrainian officials on Wednesday expressed thanks for a fresh batch of U.S. military aid that threw Kyiv's armed forces a lifeline in their more than two-year war with Russia, even though the new supplies aren't expected to have an immediate impact on the battlefield ..read more
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North Macedonia, EU hopeful, holds presidential polls centered on bloc accession, rule of law
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by Konstantin Testorides
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Voters in North Macedonia were casting ballots Wednesday for a president they hope will oversee the country's long-anticipated entry into the European Union ..read more
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Iran's Raisi inaugurates project in Sri Lanka, says West doesn't monopolize knowledge, technology
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by Krishan Francis
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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said his country has proven the West doesn't have a monopoly on technology while inaugurating a hydropower and irrigation project in Sri Lanka on Wednesday ..read more
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German far-right lawmaker whose assistant was arrested for spying for China keeps up election bid
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A prominent German far-right lawmaker said Wednesday he will dismiss an assistant who was arrested on suspicion of spying for China, but will remain the Alternative for Germany party's top candidate in the upcoming European Parliament elections ..read more
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