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Facebook to hire 10,000 workers in Europe to build ‘metaverse’ (Al Jazeera)

Facebook said it plans to hire 10,000 workers in the European Union across the next five years to work on a new computing platform...

Ecuador president declares state of emergency over drug violence (Al Jazeera)

Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso has declared a state of emergency as the country grapples with a surge in drug-related violence, and ordered the police...

Trudeau visits Indigenous community reeling from unmarked graves (Al Jazeera)

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited an Indigenous community in British Columbia, following the discovery earlier this year of more than 200 unmarked graves...

Haitians strike to protest insecurity, US seeks hostages release (Al Jazeera)

The streets of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince were quiet on Monday as Haitians engaged in a general strike to protest worsening insecurity and gang violence...

Hundreds protest in Bangladesh over deadly religious violence (Al Jazeera)

Hundreds of people have protested in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, calling for an end to religious violence that has gripped the country for four days,...

Afghanistan: Taliban agrees to door-to-door polio vaccine drive (Al Jazeera)

Health workers in Afghanistan will begin a house-to-house polio vaccination drive next month after the new Taliban government agreed to support the campaign, the...

US envoy to Afghanistan resigns in wake of chaotic withdrawal (Al Jazeera)

Top United States envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad is stepping down, the State Department has announced, less than two months after the chaotic US...

Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of ‘ethnic cleansing’ at UN court (Al Jazeera)

Azerbaijan has gone to the UN top court to accuse Armenia of laying landmines in Nagorno-Karabakh as part of a campaign of “ethnic cleansing”,...

Attacks on freedom of expression ‘devastating’ for public health (Al Jazeera)

Attacks on freedom of expression by governments, and the spread of misinformation globally during the COVID-19 pandemic have had “a devastating impact” on people’s...

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