67 h. ago Virginia Giuffre dead UPDATES: Family's tragic statement as last picture emerges

Sex trafficking survivor Virginia Giuffre, 41, was found to have taken her own life at her farm in Western Australia as her distraught family shared a statement

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3 d. ago A lesson from Brazil – where gig workers have rallied against the right | Rodrigo Nunes

Rodrigo Nunes, a senior lecturer in political theory, explains how despite harsh economic conditions creating fertile ground for ‘entrepreneur culture’, resistance has sprung up among delivery driversOn 1 April, Brazilian couriers organised a day of action in which thousands of workers engaged in pickets and protests in at least 60 cities, with places such as São Paulo reporting a sharp drop in deliveries. While companies are yet to respond to the demands for better pay and conditions, the mobilisation was a clear step-up for a process of national organisation that began in 2020.Between 2016 and 2021, the number of people working for delivery apps in Brazil rose by 979.8%, with the number of delivery and passenger drivers in the sector now around 1.4 million. This boom coincides with the period in which the country finally felt the effects of the post-2008 recession. Economic decline, corruption and the impeachment of the then president, Dilma Rousseff, ended 13 years of successful ...

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4 d. ago Thousands of Israelis including freed Hamas hostages and Holocaust survivors join March of the Living through Auschwitz 80 years after Nazi death camp's liberation

The March of the Living follows a two-mile route to the crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland as participants pay tribute to the millions of Jews who died there.

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4 d. ago Freed Israeli hostage focused on his 'inner life' to help survive harsh conditions in Gaza

Tal Shoham was freed from captivity in Gaza 505 days after Hamas militants abducted him

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1 week ago ‘This was for her’: how boxing brought a mother and son back from the brink

Reese and Desiree Mistretta are the first mother-son pair to win New York’s prestigious Golden Gloves, but their deeper bond is how boxing helped them survive life’s hardest hitsReese Mistretta wasn’t thinking about history after he climbed through the ropes on Saturday night. He was thinking about his legs, which felt like cement. About his lungs, which wouldn’t quite fill. And about the man across from him: Ali Conde, a sinewy technician from El Maestro’s Gym in the Bronx who has made his mark by waiting for opponents to strike first, then exploiting their openings.Two nights earlier, Mistretta had narrowly beaten Conde under the lights of Madison Square Garden in the elite 176lb final of the Ring Masters Championships, New York’s premier amateur boxing competition. But the finals are double elimination. If Mistretta wanted to bring home the title, he’d have to beat Conde a second time at a sweaty gym in the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn. “He definitely came back, re-correcte...

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2 w. ago Best rugged smartphones 2025 that will survive any harsh conditions

These phones are designed to withstand extreme conditions and ensure constant communication in tough environments

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2 w. ago Israelis mark another Passover hoping for Gaza captives to be freed

Relatives of hostages in Gaza say they feel the absence of their loved ones acutely during Passover, which commemorates the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and their liberation from slavery

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2 w. ago Israel releases 10 Palestinians detained from Gaza. They say they suffered abuse

Israel has freed 10 Palestinians detained from Gaza, the latest in periodic releases from the thousands of people troops have seized during the military campaign in the territory

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3 w. ago Scientists target queen bees in search of secret to longer life

UK’s £800m research body backs project that could unlock radical therapies to extend human lifespansThe curious case of the queen bee has long had scientists pondering whether the head of the hive harbours the secret to a long and healthy life.While queen bees and workers have nearly identical DNA, the queens enjoy what might be regarded as royal privileges. They are larger, fertile throughout life and survive for years compared with workers, who last a few months at best. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago 'We have to go on': Bangkok pushes on with quake rescue despite 'no signs of life' – video

Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said that although no signs of life had been detected, the search for survivors in the rubble of a skyscraper that collapsed during the 7.7 magnitude Myanmar earthquake will continue as experts 'still have hope'. He added that 12 bodies have been found, but that the search for survivors is the priority.‘It’s beyond description’: Bodies pile up in mass graves as Myanmar grapples with quake tollMyanmar earthquake death toll tops 2,000, as health system ‘overwhelmed’ Continue reading...

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