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Travel activist, renowned author and TV host Rick Steves has weighed in on the ways in which he believes the COVID-19 pandemic may continue to impact travel as it begins to resume in earnest. He recently talked with global education

Where hippos are pets: Pablo Escobar’s lasting legacy in Colombia – Vanessa is the only hippo who still lives in a fenced-in pond area at Hacienda Napoles, Pablo Escobar’s luxury estate in Colombia. – Luis Bernardo Cano/dpa The kangaroos, giraffes

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The trial is starting in earnest 10 months after George Floyd’s killing triggered outrage and protests against racial inequality. The highly anticipated trial is expected to last around four weeks. (Image credit: Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images)

The results will determine whether Amazon gets its first U.S. warehouse union. It’s been dubbed one of the most consequential union elections in recent history. (Image credit: Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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SHIRE, Ethiopia (Reuters) – The dusty buses keep coming, dozens a day, mattresses, chairs and baskets piled on top. They stop at schools hurriedly turned into camps, disgorging families who describe fleeing from ethnic Amhara militia in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.

Amos Yadlin says Beijing ‘taking advantage’ of Biden replacing Trump to become more aggressive, signing 25-year agreement on economic, military cooperation

Sarah Obama, the grandmother of former US President Barack Obama, has died aged 99 in western Kenya, her daughter told AFP Monday. “It is true she has gone to be with the Lord, she passed on this morning,” said an