NZ women cricketers win 'landmark' equal pay agreement
New Zealand's women cricketers have won the right to the same match fees as men in a deal announced as ground-breaking by players and cricketing chiefs.
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Picky eaters: Japan penguins piqued by penny-pinching zoo
Picky penguins and ornery otters at a Japanese aquarium are facing the effects of inflation, refusing the new bargain bites their keepers are now offering after a jump in prices.
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Asia stocks drop, euro stuck at 20-year low on recession fear
Equities fell in Asia on Wednesday and the euro remained stuck at a 20-year low as recession fears continued to flow through trading floors, though oil bounced slightly after the previous day's painful losses.
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India's 'bulldozer justice' flattens Muslim dissent
After two nights in police custody, Indian teenager Somaiya Fatima was released in time to watch live footage of an excavator claw smashing into the walls of her childhood home.
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Twitter challenges Indian orders to block content: reports
Twitter is challenging the Indian government's orders to block content on its social media site in court, local media reported Wednesday citing legal documents.
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Fresh Covid outbreaks put millions under lockdown in China
Tens of millions of people were under lockdown in China on Wednesday as businesses in a major tourist city were forced to shut their doors and fresh clusters sparked fears of a return to blanket restrictions.
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'Unbelievable feeling': Overseas hajj pilgrims rejoice after 2-year Covid absence
Of the hundreds of thousands of Muslims arriving in Mecca this week for the annual hajj pilgrimage, perhaps none had a more arduous journey than Adam Mohammed, a 53-year-old electrical engineer from the United Kingdom.
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French PM to face baptism of fire in divided parliament
French Prime Minister Elizabeth Borne will on Wednesday lay out the government's policy priorities in her first speech in front of what promises to be a stormy parliament.
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Evacuation calls as Russians advance in Ukraine's Donbas
Ukrainian officials have called on civilians to urgently evacuate the city of Sloviansk as Russian troops press towards it in their campaign to secure the Donbas region.
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Pene Pati: the Samoan Pavarotti
Pene Pati remembers his teachers at university telling him: "Don't be ashamed if you don't make it because a lot of Pacific singers won't." In fact, they added, no one from Samoa had ever become an opera star.
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