The News Caravan

Tag: World news

  • The week in wildlife – in pictures

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    A wild Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) is spotted in a weak and exhausted semi-conscious state in the bushes of parthenium plants at Tehatta, West Bengal, India. The Asian palm civet, a nocturnal carnivore species also known as the common palm civet, toddy cat, and musang, is found in south and south-east Asia, it produces a buttery, honey-like secretion that is scraped off its perineal glands. This civet is threatened by poaching and illegal wildlife trade; buyers use it for the increased production of the world’s most expensive coffee, kopi luwak (civet coffee)

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    ( With inputs from : www.theguardian.com )

  • Biden, Trump and the classified documents – podcast

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    American presidents face many era-defining challenges: wars, pandemics, recessions. But one that gets less attention seems to keep haunting them: paperwork.

    Last November, at Joe Biden’s thinktank in Washington DC, aides to the US president were packing up and they found something that shouldn’t have been there: a stash of classified documents.

    As David Smith tells Michael Safi, that was not the end of the matter. A further search of Biden’s property turned up more secret documents that needed to be handed over to the national archives. It’s left Biden with a legal headache, but perhaps more pressing: a political one.

    The revelations have been leapt upon by supporters of Donald Trump who wasted no time in calling for Biden to face the same scrutiny as the former president who saw his own home raided by the FBI after ignoring demands to hand over documents he had taken without authorisation.

    The US president, Joe Biden

    Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

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  • How the world fell in love with Jacinda Ardern – video

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    As New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern announces she won’t contest the next election, we take a look back at some of the most memorable moments of her time in office. 

    • Jacinda Ardern resigns as prime minister of New Zealand
    • Jacinda Ardern’s first term as New Zealand’s prime minister – in pictures

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    ( With inputs from : www.theguardian.com )

  • Ukraine: senior officials die in helicopter crash near nursery – video report

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    A helicopter believed to have been travelling to the frontline has crashed in a Kyiv suburb, killing senior officials including the interior minister, Denys Monastyrsky, and a number of children who died after debris hit a nearby nursery. Footage from the immediate aftermath shows a building and cars on fire, with video released by the Ukrainian police showing parts of the helicopter scattered across the crash site. Security services are investigating possible causes, including a technical malfunction, a breach of flight rules and the intentional destruction of the helicopter

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    ( With inputs from : www.theguardian.com )