World News 2.0

r/worldnews2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 17h ago

Voters in Israel are deciding whether to oust Netanyahu after 3 years of war | His Israeli detractors see him as a polarizing leader who, beset by an ongoing corruption trial, dragged out the war in Gaza and its hostage crisis for political reasons.

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r/worldnews2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 1d ago

DNA Shows Ice Age Europeans Roamed Far Across Continent | Eastern, western populations were more connected than previously thought

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r/worldnews2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 1d ago

Evolutionary ‘game-changer’: weird armoured amphibian lived in ancient seas | The creature’s armour cladding probably enabled it to tolerate the salty seas of the Late Triassic.

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r/worldnews2 • u/IntnsRed • 1d ago

Serbia’s Student-Led Movement Ousts Strongman Aleksander Vučić in Shock Election Result | Largely first-time politicians selected by student-led popular assemblies, won a majority of seats in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, marking a seismic shift in Serbian politics.

democracynow.org

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r/worldnews2 • u/IntnsRed • 1d ago

Brazil: Lula Wins Stunning Upset Over Flávio Bolsonaro in Blow to Far Right & Trump | The younger Bolsonaro, who narrowly defeated Lula in the first round of voting earlier this month, is now refusing to concede.

democracynow.org

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r/worldnews2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 2d ago

A New Ice Age Was Beginning. Then Humans Started Burning Fossil Fuels | Ancient plants reveal that the vestiges of the North American ice sheet started expanding a few thousand years ago, but that climate change caused it to reverse course.

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r/worldnews2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 2d ago

Poland: Thousands protest for more abortion rights

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r/worldnews2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 2d ago

Fourth insolvency in 6 years leaves 12,000 Galeria workers facing store closures in Germany | Galeria’s latest insolvency shows that the concessions and “restructuring contracts” negotiated by the Verdi union have neither saved jobs nor stopped the plundering of the company by investors.

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r/worldnews2 • u/Deedogg11 • 2d ago

Lula, Brazil’s iconic working-class president, wins historic fourth term in dramatic comeback

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r/worldnews2 • u/Woundsmyheart • 2d ago

Days before Israeli election, military conducts massive West Bank operation - POLITICO

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r/worldnews2 • u/Medization • 2d ago

Brazilians vote in presidential election runoff pitting leftist Lula against far-right Bolsonaro | Brazil

theguardian.com

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Brazilians are going to the polls on Sunday in a highly unpredictable runoff in which the leftist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is attempting an unprecedented comeback against the far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro, who won the first-round vote.

Bolsonaro’s surprise victory despite not leading most polls made him the favourite three weeks ago, but since then Lula’s campaign has gained ground, and the two go into the contest virtually tied.

r/worldnews2 • u/IntnsRed • 3d ago

Hundreds of thousands march across France in protests over schools and policing | Government estimates at least 400,000 people took part, but trade unions say the number is double that

theguardian.com

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r/worldnews2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 4d ago

Israeli Occupation Forces Ramp Up Ethnic Cleansing in West Bank After Palestinian Resistance Attack | “What we saw today was an attempt to copy the illegal practices used in Gaza, in the heart of the West Bank. They want to wipe out entire areas exactly as they did in Gaza.”

commondreams.org

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r/worldnews2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 3d ago

Libyan parliament ratifies maritime deal with Türkiye, heightening war danger in Eastern Mediterranean | The dispute over maritime boundaries is part of a struggle over control of energy resources, pipelines, electricity and data cables, and strategic sea lanes.

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r/worldnews2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 3d ago

Amina Helmi, the Argentine scientist who received the “Nobel of astrophysics” for finding the Milky Way’s last big fusion.

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r/worldnews2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 4d ago

Rare fossils reveal what ancient Denisovans may have looked like | Thanks to a new study published in the journal Nature, some significant knowledge gaps are being filled in—namely, what they looked like and where they lived.

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r/worldnews2 • u/ParaThina • 4d ago

Netanyahu orders ‘very extensive’ operation in West Bank after two Israeli soldiers killed | West Bank

theguardian.com

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r/worldnews2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 4d ago

French Police Could Soon Tag Protesters With Chemicals That Contain Invisible Markers to Identify Them Later

gadgetreview.com

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r/worldnews2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 4d ago

Trump’s Anti-DEI Agenda Threatens to Slash Land Mine Disposal Efforts Globally | The Trump administration’s expansion of its global gag rule threatens to derail NGOs’ crucial land mine removal work.

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r/worldnews2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 4d ago

Thanks to solar, France hits record 800 hours of negative, zero electricity prices

pv-magazine.com

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r/worldnews2 • u/Galt1776-Part2 • 5d ago

Grenade exercise sparked deadly fire at Canada military base, army says

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r/worldnews2 • u/IntnsRed • 5d ago

Prison reform programme advances staffing, training, rehabilitation plans | St. Maarten’s has made progress in developing prison policies, preparing a future correctional workforce and expanding education, healthcare and rehabilitation activities, according to an update from the UN (UNODC).

thedailyherald.sx

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r/worldnews2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 5d ago

Orangutans prefer food associated with sounds of laughter, study suggests | Apes in study more likely to choose treats linked to sound of peers having fun, suggesting emotions influence learning

theguardian.com

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r/worldnews2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 6d ago

Ebola spreads to Nigeria and Kenya as epidemic expands beyond Congo (DRC) | Nigeria has confirmed an imported case of Bundibugyo Ebola and Kenya has 9, while the Congolese epidemic has reached 9,552 cases and 4,602 deaths in 8 provinces, with children dying at the highest rates.

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r/worldnews2 • u/IntnsRed • 6d ago

Flamingo Revolution: Albania Protests Escalate over Corruption & Kushner/Trump Luxury Resort | Student-led anti-corruption and cost-of-living protests in Albania are calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama, among other demands.

democracynow.org

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