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In key test for new government, cabinet to meet to approve 2021-2022 budget

Israel has been without a budget since 2019; health minister threatens to oppose; Ra’am leader will reportedly be on hand for negotiations

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Australia’s News Corp walks a delicate line on COVID politics

Elements within News Corporation are now fighting among themselves over how its platforms should position themselves in response to the worsening COVID crisis in New South Wales.This has become clear with the decision by the editor of News Corp’s Daily

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Why Beekeeping Is Booming in New York: ‘A Hive Is a Box of Calm’

It turns out the hobby is a great pandemic coping technique. But too many honeybees in the city could also pose an environmental threat.

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Seeking to save battered economy, Iran’s Raisi may prioritize axing US sanctions

Ultra-conservative new president is set to take reign of a country facing deep economic problems; experts say he’ll focus on removing trade barriers with China and Russia

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Lebanon is sliding back to the Stone Age, and Iran couldn’t be happier about it

Israel’s northern neighbor is facing water, electricity and medicine shortages and its prospective new government won’t weaken Hezbollah; will the PA suffer similar disaster?

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Dead, shrivelled frogs are unexpectedly turning up across eastern Australia

Over the past few weeks, we’ve received a flurry of emails from concerned people who’ve seen sick and dead frogs across eastern Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. One person wrote: About a month ago, I noticed the Green Tree

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Taliban rockets hit Kandahar airport in Afghanistan, flights suspended

KABUL (Reuters) – Taliban fighters struck Kandahar airport in southern Afghanistan with at least three rockets overnight, the insurgent group’s spokesman said on Sunday, adding that the aim was to thwart air strikes conducted by Afghan government forces. “Kandahar airport

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Your bed probably isn’t as clean as you think – a microbiologist explains

There’s nothing quite like crawling into bed, wrapping up in your blankets, and nestling your head into your pillow. But before you get too comfortable, you might want to know that your bed isn’t all that dissimilar to a petri

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How summer of 2021 has changed our understanding of extreme weather

A succession of record-breaking natural disasters have swept the globe in recent weeks. There have been serious floods in China and western Europe, heatwaves and drought in North America and wildfires in the sub-Arctic. An annual report on the UK’s

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