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China has relaxed its family planning policy to allow couples to have three children after a census showed its population is rapidly ageing, in a major policy shift to boost birthrate in the world’s most populous nation.

For nearly 40 years, China enforced a controversial “one-child policy” – one of the strictest family planning regulations worldwide – which was relaxed in 2016 to a “two-child policy” due to widespread concerns about an ageing workforce and economic stagnation.
 

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Denmark's secret service helped the US spy on European politicians including German Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2012 to 2014, Danish media say.

Similar allegations emerged in 2013. Then, secrets leaked by US whistleblower Edward Snowden alleged tapping of the German chancellor's phone by the NSA. When those allegations were made, the White House gave no outright denial but said Mrs Merkel's phone was not being bugged at the time and would not be in future..............

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57302806
 
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China reports human case of bird flu

Chinese authorities are facing a fresh disease outbreak - this one mostly affecting animals - but also potentially deadly among people. The Ministry of Agriculture said that a fresh outbreak of lethal bird flu had been found in poultry in the southern province of Hunan, and that officials had ordered the slaughter of 17,828 chickens.
 

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First day of summer, UK
Lines of beachgoers file up the steps to Durdle Door in Dorset on the first day of the meteorological summer. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA

Durdle Door is a natural limestone arch on the Jurassic Coast near Lulworth in Dorset, England. It is owned by the Welds, a family who own 12,000 acres in Dorset in the name of the Lulworth Estate. It is open to the public.
 
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Photo: TONY GENTILE

A mafia boss who killed more than 150 people, blew up a magistrate and dissolved a teenage victim in acid has been released early from jail, angering politicians and relatives of his victims.

Giovanni Brusca, 64, known as “the pig” during his career as an executioner with Sicily’s Cosa Nostra, walked free from Rome’s Rebibbia prison after winning five years off his 30-year sentence for good behaviour.
 
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Warning for moderate drinkers

A team at Imperial College London, headed by Professor Paul Elliott, analysed MRI scans performed on thousands of people in late middle age, and found that alcohol consumption was linked to reduced brain matter volume, increased heart ventricle mass, and higher levels of fat on the liver. Such changes have been linked to health conditions including Alzheimer’s, cardiovascular and liver disease.
 
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Naomi Osaka withdraws from French Open
“Here in Paris I was already feeling vulnerable and anxious so I thought it was better to exercise self-care and skip the press conferences” she posted on her social media.
 
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Bregana, Croatia
A police officer at the border crossing between Croatia and Slovenia scans an EU citizen’s digital Covic passport. Photograph: Denis Lovrovic/AFP/Getty Images
 
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London, UK
A visitor views the wedding dress of Diana, Princess of Wales at the Royal Style in the Making exhibition at Kensington Palace.
Photograph: Tim P Whitby/Getty Images
 
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Syrian families are being released from the Kurdish-run Al-Hol camp which held relatives of suspected ISIS fighters. There were an estimated 10,000 foreign women and children from 57 countries detained at the Al Hol camp and its neighbouring Roj camp. AFP
 
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COURT: Andrei Pivovarov, the head of Open Russia movement stands behind the glass during a court session in Krasnodar, Russia on Wednesday. In the southern city of Krasnodar, a court was scheduled to consider whether to keep Andrei Pivovarov, the head of the Open Russia movement, in custody pending an investigation. Pivovarov was pulled off a Warsaw-bound plane at St Petersburg's airport just before take-off late Monday and taken to Krasnodar, where authorities accused him of supporting a local election candidate last year on behalf of an "undesirable" organization. Photograph: AP
 
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Two personnel inhale steam as a preventive measure against COVID-19 in Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: HANDOUT E MAIL

Every day, personnel at Sarjapur police station gather around a pressure cooker that has been converted into an inhalation device. The cooker is filled with boiled water and topped with herbs and leaves from medicinal plants like neem, tulsi and eucalyptus. It emits steam that police personnel inhale through vents.

From practising pranayama to taking kashaya and zinc tablets, police personnel in Bengaluru and other parts of Karnataka are increasingly adopting different measures in an attempt to keep COVID-19 at bay. The latest trend is medicinal inhalation.
 
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Brazilian para-swimmer Jessica Oliveira trains at Vasco da Gama club. The 16 yeawr old is a quadruple amputee as a result of meningococcal meningitis at age 10. Photograph: Buda Mendes/Getty Images
 
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People listen to speakers after the remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, during a vigil in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 2, 2021.
 
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Turkey’s President Erdogan has come under fire after revealing that he has received three doses of vaccine against the coronavirus, even as his country struggles to procure enough doses for key workers.

The leader received his first dose of the Chinese-made Sinovac vaccine on January 14, and was one of the first people in Turkey to be vaccinated. He received a second Sinovac shot on February 11, and revealed this week that he had subsequently had a third dose on March 10. He did not confirm whether that was also Sinovac or the Pfizer-BioNTech jab, which Turkey has also procured.
 
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Reuters / Wednesday, June 02, 2021
Wang Tianchang, 78, waters a tree planted on the edge of the Gobi desert on the outskirts of Wuwei, Gansu province, China. The Wangs have been fighting desertification since they settled on barren land near the village of Hongshui in Wuwei, a city in Gansu close to the border with Inner Mongolia, in 1980. A local institution in northwest China's Gansu province, Wang and his family lead busloads of young volunteers from the provincial capital of Lanzhou into the desert each year to plant and irrigate new trees and bushes. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
 
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Denmark has passed a law allowing it to relocate asylum seekers to third countries while their asylum claims are processed, in a move that has drawn sharp condemnation from human rights groups. The bill paves the way for the establishment of offshore asylum centers outside the European Union. It was approved in Danish parliament on Thursday. Source: CNN
 
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First day of summer, UK
Lines of beachgoers file up the steps to Durdle Door in Dorset on the first day of the meteorological summer. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA

Durdle Door is a natural limestone arch on the Jurassic Coast near Lulworth in Dorset, England. It is owned by the Welds, a family who own 12,000 acres in Dorset in the name of the Lulworth Estate. It is open to the public.
they are actually filing down steps to Man O’War beach in Bournemouth which has the iconic durdle door Arch in the sea...:D

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