This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — An F.B.I. agent testified in a pretrial hearing in the Sept. 11, 2001, conspiracy case on Thursday that he sent hundreds of questions into the secret prison network where the C.I.A. used torture to interrogate its prisoners, a […]
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Amazon, which delivers more than 10 billion items a year on fuel-guzzling planes, vans and trucks, vowed Thursday to cut the amount of damage it does to the environment and report its greenhouse gas emissions regularly. The online shopping giant has been facing pressure from its own employees to do more to combat climate change
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Image copyright Getty Images Children with cancer are being denied new, highly precise drugs that are available to adults, doctors warn. Medics at the Royal Marsden Hospital and the Institute of Cancer Research said the rules were “too cautious”. Their study, in the European Journal of Cancer, found just 7% of suitable children were getting
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If you didn’t know that Moby is a pretty big vegan, well, now you do. The 54-year-old musician decided to get an enormous “Vegan For Life” tattoo on his neck, posting a photo of his new ink on Instagram Thursday. “I’ve been a vegan for almost 32 years, so getting this tattoo seemed like a
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Image copyright Getty Images Some of the world’s largest firms including Amazon and Google have committed to big-spending green energy plans as calls for climate action increase. Amazon has pledged to be carbon neutral by 2040 and Google said it would make record renewable energy purchases. The announcements coincide with a day of climate action
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A man who led a successful campaign to stop a mega-dam being built in Borneo’s rainforest has been awarded a top environmental prize. Peter Kallang spent years raising awareness of the plans among indigenous communities in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, and the wider world. After a five year campaign the government eventually cancelled the
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Nelson Cruz hit two of Minnesota’s four home runs and matched his season high with five RBIs, igniting another impressive power display by the first-place Twins during an 8-5 victory on Thursday night over the Kansas City Royals to keep their American League Central lead at four games — with nine games to go. Miguel
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While still a teenager, Mr. Ferré met María Mercedes Malaussena, a young Venezuelan who lived next door to his parents on Brickell and who would become an artist. They were married in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, in 1955. His wife survives him, as do two daughters, Mary Isabel Ferré Succar and Florence Mercedes Ferré;
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No one embodies Indians’ love of accessorizing better than a tiny bronze statuette in Delhi’s National Museum. This 4,500-year-old icon from one of the world’s oldest civilizations looks like she’s telling a mansplainer exactly where to stuff his opinion. Archaeologists peg her age at 15 or 16 and believe that “she was good at what
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Friends turns 25 on 22 September Ross, Rachel, Joey, Monica, Chandler and Phoebe have been there for us for 25 years. They are still there for us, and there’s no sign of them going anywhere soon. Generation Z is seemingly just as in love with Friends as their parents
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