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Tanzanian Elephant
In a bid to stop the killing of elephants for their tusks, world governments voted at a major conservation conference to urge the closure of all domestic ivory markets. After fierce debate, disagreements and walkouts the motion was adopted on the final day of the International Union for...
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High school football players across the US followed San Francisco 49ers...
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U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning announced she began a hunger strike in...

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Facebook has backed down after deleting the iconic photo of a naked, screaming, napalm-burned Vietnamese girl in the name of "maintaining a safe and respectful experience for our global community." The shift came amidst charges the social network was revising history, abusing its power, attacking "a mainstay of our democratic society" - and proving it really needs to learn some editorial judgment if it can't understand the obscenity of the photo lies not in its nudity.