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    Big powers need to stop 'strangling' N. Korea: Russia

    STORY: Russia said on Friday (March 29) that major powers should stop "strangling" North Korea.The comment came after Russia vetoed the annual renewal of a panel of experts monitoring enforcement of longstanding United Nations sanctions against North Korea.......over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles programs.Three former members of the panel told Reuters that this points to a "grim future" for the sanctions enforcement. According to the UN, North Korea is the only country to have condu

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    Polish president vetoes move to restore access to emergency contraception

    Poland's conservative President Andrzej Duda on Friday vetoed a proposal by the pro-EU ruling coalition to restore prescription-free emergency contraception, which was reversed by the previous nationalist government.Catholic-majority Poland saw a rollback of women's reproductive rights during the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party's eight-year rule, with access tightened to emergency contraception, made prescription-only in 2017. 

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    Family of US reporter jailed in Russia vows to keep fighting

    One year after American journalist Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia on espionage charges, his family vowed Friday to continue fighting for his release, a pledge echoed by President Joe Biden.He vowed to "continue working every day to secure his release" as well as to "denounce and impose costs for Russia's appalling attempts to use Americans as bargaining chips."

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    Watch Donald Trump Jr. Strain To Spin Bridge Conspiracy Theory And Attack Joe Biden

    The former president’s son hemmed and hawed before eventually working in a Biden slam.

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    Disinformation targeting Brigitte Macron spreads beyond France

    Years after false posts began circulating on social media purporting Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman, the French first lady remains the target of fake claims with the transphobic disinformation spreading to the United States.On March 22, a 51-year-old man was arrested in southwestern France for allegedly writing "Brigitte Macron, transsexual" on his garage, according to the French daily Le Figaro. 

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    I Was Raised In Purity Culture. Then I Began Wearing A Secret Purchase Under My Clothes.

    "Like so many who were raised in conservative Christianity, the sex education I received was light on 'education' and heavy on shame."

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    S.African ex-president Zuma escapes unharmed from car crash: police

    South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma survived a car accident overnight after a vehicle transporting him was hit by a drunk driver, police said on Friday. The driver's car "collided with former president Mr Jacob Zuma's official armoured state vehicle", the South African Police Service (SAPS) said.

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