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Muslims in China detained in "re-education camps" have been forced to drink alcohol and eat pork, and have been made to perform other demeaning practices, a former detainee has alleged. Since spring 2017, authorities in the Xinjiang region have arrested thousands of Muslims, including foreign nationals, often without trial or charges. A United States…
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Actress Jada Pinkett Smith has revealed that she is battling alopecia, opening up about her struggle with the condition in an episode of her Facebook chat show, Red Table Talk. The 46-year-old said that she first suspected it might be the case that she was suffering from the condition when she…
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A Russian cruise missile designed to have a virtually unlimited range has reportedly crashed just two minutes and 22 miles after take-off, according to US intelligence sources. Speaking to CNBC, these sources said that the same missile design had undergone testing four times between November and February, but had crash-landed…
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Mark Zuckerberg's meeting with the leaders of the European Parliament to discuss the Cambridge Analytica data leak ended in acrimony, with complaints that the Facebook founder didn't answer a single question. Zuckerberg arrived in Brussels on Tuesday to be questioned by leaders of the parliament’s eight main political groups about how…
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A black trans woman has claimed that no major modelling agency will give her a contract because someone like her is "too much of a gamble". Leyna Bloom, took to Instagram this week to tell her 125,000 followers of the difficulty she has been experiencing in her attempts to break…
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As a trans person, coming out to anyone can be difficult, but what if the person you were coming out to was your 86-year-old devoted Catholic grandmother? That's exactly the situation that Leah Hintz from Florida found herself in last week when she decided to reveal her secret to her…
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Barack and Michelle Obama have signed a deal with Netflix to produce films and documentaries, but the announcement has led many people online to threaten to cancel their subscriptions, with a boycott Netflix hashtag trending. In a Netflix press release, it was announced that the former US president and former…
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On Saturday, the eyes of the world were on the UK. But, while they had previously been on the country due to its questionable political decisions (*ahem* Brexit *ahem*), this time it was for a more joyous and heartwarming reason. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle got married at a beautiful ceremony…
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One year ago today, the Manchester Arena in the UK was targeted by a suicide bomber during an Ariana Grande concert. 22 people lost their lives that night and a further 139 suffered injuries, with more than half of the victims being children. In the wake of the attack, which…
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Last week, the internet became divided after Twitter user Cloe Feldman posted a surprisingly controversial clip to the social media platform. It was titled, simply: "What do you hear?! Yanny or Laurel" - and, given that all one had to do to answer the question was listen to a voice clip,…
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It's now been a few days since the curtain closed on the royal wedding, and while we're not back to normal just yet, the world does seem to be restoring itself to its former state before all the celebrations and street parties. The ceremony of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle…
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The mother of a 16-year-old girl killed in the Santa Fe school shooting has claimed that her daughter publicly rejected suspected killer Dimitrios Pagourtzis in the days before the attack. Sadie Rodriguez stated that her daughter, Shana Fisher, had endured "four months of problems from this boy" and had repeatedly rebuffed…
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On Saturday, Meghan Markle married Prince Harry, and they broke stuffy old royal traditions in many ways. For example, Meghan is the first woman of color to be inducted in the royal family, as well as the first divorcee. At the beginning of the ceremony, they held hands before the…
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Over the weekend, millions of people watched the Royal Wedding, as American actress Meghan Markle tied the knot with Prince Harry. Or, as Colin Jost put it on Saturday Night Live, "Meghan Markle married some unemployed guy who still lives with his grandma." Don't get discouraged, Harry. Keep applying for jobs. I'm…
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A former Playboy centrefold model and her young son died on the morning of Friday 18 May, after the two of them jumped out of a window on the 25th floor of a Manhattan hotel. Stephanie Adams and her seven-year-old son, Vincent Adams, apparently checked into the Gotham Hotel on…
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A truly adorable video of Prince Harry and Princess Diana has gone viral in the wake of the royal wedding. Reportedly shot in 1987, when Harry was just two or three years old, the footage shows him in a red car with his mother. Turning to the window, the little…
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A British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran is facing fresh charges, despite having been in prison in the country for over two years. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is from London, is currently serving a five-year sentence in Tehran's Evin prison, having been convicted of spying. Now, her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, says that she has…
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Families in Oakland, California, gathered this weekend for a community barbecue in the same spot where a woman reported a group of black people to the police for using a charcoal grill. A post from Twitter user Carvell showed what appeared to be hundreds of people enjoying a peaceful afternoon…
