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Windsor, UK
Queen Elizabeth II takes part in a video call in which she shared memories of achieving her own qualification as a young girl with the Royal Life Saving Society which works across 30 Commonwealth nations with the aim of eliminating preventable death by drowning, promoting water safety and delivering lifesaving and lifeguarding education. Photograph: Buckingham Palace/Getty Images
 

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People enjoy beverages at a bar in central Brussels while Belgium reopens their outdoor spaces including bar and restaurant terraces, after closing down for months. Reuters/Yves Herman
 
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The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan speaks after being re-elected during his signing-in ceremony at Shakespeare’s Globe. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters
 

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Tuesday 11 May 2021 A woman cries near a school after a shooting in Kazan, Russia. Writing on the wall reads "We grieve".

Russian officials say a gunman attacked a school in the city of Kazan and Russian officials say several people have been killed. Officials said the dead in Tuesday's shooting include students, a teacher and a school worker. Authorities also say over 20 others have been hospitalized with wounds. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Attacks on schools are rare in Russia, and President Vladimir Putin reacted by ordering the head of the country’s National Guard to revise regulations on the types of weapons allowed for civilian use.
 
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Granite Bay, US
Lifeguard stands are parked on the dry bed of Folsom Lake in California. The state governor, Gavin Newsom, has declared a drought emergency in 41 of California’s 58 counties. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
 
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Staff at the British Museum unveil an 800 year old stained glass window on loan from Canterbury Cathedral for a new exhibition about Thomas Becket. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA
 
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Thursday May 13 2021, 5.00pm - Los Angeles

Skid Row had by then existed for more than a century, becoming part of the Greater Los Angeles landscape, like the beach, the Hollywood sign and Sunset Boulevard, a byword for Americans who have lost everything, including hope. Now one maverick judge is trying to change that.

Last month the district court judge David Carter ordered the city and county to rip up their existing homelessness strategy and, by the middle of October, find shelter for every person who sleeps rough on Skid Row by October.

However, a panel of judges from the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday temporarily froze the deadline to be suspended while their appeal is heard.


We need him in Sydney, homelessness is getting worse every day.

 
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This photo won the 2010 Embratel Press Award. The boy portrayed through the lens of photographer Marcos Tristão is Diego Frazão Torquato, or Diego do Violino, or simply, Azul.

He learned to play the violin through classes offered in the community by his teacher Evandro, coordinator of the social projects of the NGO AfroReggae. However, his mentor was murdered in a robbery in downtown Rio and the boy is seen here playing at his funeral.
 
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Emely, 8, of Honduras, stands alone after turning herself in upon crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, in La Joya, Texas. The unaccompanied child cried as she told her story of losing her guides and walking for miles with another group.
 
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Thursday May 13 2021, 5.00pm - Los Angeles

Skid Row had by then existed for more than a century, becoming part of the Greater Los Angeles landscape, like the beach, the Hollywood sign and Sunset Boulevard, a byword for Americans who have lost everything, including hope. Now one maverick judge is trying to change that.

Last month the district court judge David Carter ordered the city and county to rip up their existing homelessness strategy and, by the middle of October, find shelter for every person who sleeps rough on Skid Row by October.

However, a panel of judges from the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday temporarily froze the deadline to be suspended while their appeal is heard.


We need him in Sydney, homelessness is getting worse every day.
The entire world need more of him!
 
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Reuters / Friday, May 14, 2021
A woman prays next to the carcasses of elephants that according to the forest officials possibly died because of a lightning strike, on the foothills of the Kundoli reserve forest area in Nagaon district in the northeastern state of Assam, India. REUTERS/Anuwar Hazarika
 
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Prince Charles is set to cull the monarchy by axing several members after the Queen’s death, it’s been claimed.
Only six royals will take their places at the head of the family – Prince Charles and wife Camilla, Princess Anne, Prince Edward and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge for the younger generation.

Prince Andrew is not included in the cull
 
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Pro-Palestine ultra-Orthodox Jews counter-protest a pro-Israel rally at Times square in New York City. Reuters/David ‘Dee’ Delgado
 
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The idea of a laboratory escape has polarised the community and was dismissed by the World Health Organisation
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It remains plausible that the pandemic started after the coronavirus escaped from a laboratory, a group of leading scientists has said.

In a letter in the journal Science, researchers from Stanford, Harvard, MIT and Cambridge criticised the World Health Organisation (WHO) and other scientists for dismissing such an explanation.

They said that despite vociferous opposition from some colleagues there was not enough data to exclude the possibility the virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. “Theories of accidental release from a lab . . . remain viable,” they wrote.

Source: The Times
 
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BLADE RUNNER: Blake Leeper laughs during a training session at Dorsey High School in Los Angeles, California. An eight-time Paralympic track and field international medallist, Leeper is a world record holder who hopes to be the first double-amputee to compete in the Olympics for the US team. A panel appointed by track and field's global governing body recently ruled that Leeper's blade-like prostheses gave him an unfair advantage, and he is now training on different ones in hopes they will be approved. Photograph: Ezra Shaw/Getty
 
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Batley Grammar School is a co-educational free school in Batley, West Yorkshire, England.
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Parents are looking to pull their children out of Batley Grammar School, where the showing of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad provoked uproar six weeks ago, because they fear that tensions will erupt again once an investigation by the school concludes.

The teacher who showed the cartoon to a class was forced to flee his home with his partner and four children.

Although it was claimed that the cartoon had been shown previously at the school, the teacher was suspended and forced into police protection with his family for their safety.

Source: The Times
 


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