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Brooklyn, New York, US
Canners sort cans and bottles at non-profit recycling centre Sure We Can. New York has an estimated 10,000 canners, mostly older migrants from Latin America and China who make a living sorting and recycling plastics and aluminium. The canners are a key part of the recycling effort but they are unofficial workers, lacking the benefits and health insurance that would come with a recognised job
Photograph: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images
 

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Victoria Lee had a bad Botox reaction

Doctors and nurses are running a lucrative sideline prescribing Botox remotely despite medical guidelines requiring them to see patients face to face. Online medics offered to prescribe the cosmetic anti-wrinkle drug to patients hundreds of miles away without ever seeing them in person. They would sign off prescriptions without speaking to the person receiving the treatment, relying instead on consultations carried out by beauticians with no medical training.

Source: The Times
 
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Prince Andrew has sought to turn the tables on the woman accusing him of teenage rape by claiming that she was involved in the “wilful recruitment and trafficking of young girls for sexual abuse”.
 
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Andrew Ansbro, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association speaks with city workers last week. Photograph: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/Rex/Shutterstock

About 9,000 New York City municipal workers were put on unpaid leave for refusing to comply with a vaccine mandate that took effect on Monday. Firehouses remain open but 18 of 350 units were out of service, Daniel Nigro, the fire commissioner, said.
 
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Sydney, Australia
An international traveller is embraced as she arrives at Sydney airport after Covid restrictions eased. Fully vaccinated Australians are allowed into Sydney from overseas, without quarantine for the first time since March 2020. Photograph: Jaimi Joy/Reuters
 
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Protesters march near the Clyde at the perimeter of the Cop26 site
Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian
 
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Commuters disembark a suburban local train in Kolkata, India, as the train services resumed normalcy after Covid restrictions were lifted.
 
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HOT AIR: Oxfam activists dressed as a Scottish pipe band and representing international heads of state pose during their "Big Heads" protest at the Royal Exchange Square in Glasgow, Scotland, on the sidelines of the COP26 UN Climate Summit. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty
 
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Eighty-five critically endangered hawksbill turtle hatchlings were released into the sea off Sentosa on November 1, 2021. There is another nest on Palawan Beach whose eggs have yet to hatch. Both nests were found two weeks apart in September. PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/MARK CHEONG
 
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A migrant woman changes her daughter's diaper on a road during a walk as they take part in a caravan heading to Mexico City, in Ernestina de Montes, Mexico, November 1, 2021. PHOTO: REUTERS
 
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People visiting the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, on November 1, 2021. On 7 July 2007 the Colosseum became one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. The construction of the Colosseum began in the year 72 under the empire of Vespasian and was finished in the year 80 during the rule of the emperor Titus. PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/LIM YAOHUI
 
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Tourists watch the Perito Moreno Glacier at Los Glaciares National Park, near El Calafate, Argentina, Monday, Nov. 1, 2021.
 
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BANGKOK -- Thailand on Tuesday decriminalized the possession and sale of kratom, a plant native to Southeast Asia whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant and painkiller and which has a following in the United States for its pain-relieving qualities
 
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In this photo taken on October 30, 2021, an angler walks on concrete tetrapod wave breakers in Gangneung, South Korea. PHOTO: AFP
 
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A Sotheby's employee holds a pair of Nike sneakers worn in game by former NBA player Kobe Bryant, which are estimated to fetch between 25,000 and 35,000 Swiss francs ($38000), during a preview at Sotheby's before auction sale, in Geneva, Switzerland, November 2, 2021. PHOTO: EPA-EFE
 
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A photo released on November 3, 2021, shows a double rainbow appearing above road 10 and the Skalafjord near Skali village on Eystroy Island, on October 10, 2021, in the Faroe Islands. PHOTO: AFP
 
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French President Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel meet residents in Beaune, Burgundy. Merkel will be feted by France in a special farewell ceremony honouring her leadership and partnership after 16 years in power.
 
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At the Azizi Bank in Kabul, men wait in line to withdraw money from their bank accounts. On top of an embargo imposed by the U.S., the IMF has cut off loans to Afghanistan, triggering a financial crisis. The shortage of money has led banks to limit cash withdrawals. (Photo by Paula Bronstein). Limits on dollar withdraws means long lines every day as customers must keep coming back.

Link https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/T...ian-crisis-that-threatens-to-dwarf-all-others
 
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