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Despite serving for decades, women in the armed forces around the world still face obstacles throughout their military career.
Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin meeting in 2011, during the Obama presidency.
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The Biden-Putin summit will be symbolic, rather than substantive - but there could be grounds for cautious optimism.
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Crude text scams, sent en masse, only have to work a handful of times to make criminals significant sums of cash.
Roman Protasevich es detenido en un mitin en Minsk en marzo de 2017.
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Los temores sobre la suerte del joven periodista y bloguero han aumentado después de que lo sacaran de un vuelo de Ryanair.
Thorn in Lukashenko’s side: Roman Protasevich arrested at a rally in Minsk, March 2017.
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Fears grow for the young dissident journalist after he was taken off a Ryanair flight.
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Alfvén waves, first proposed 80 years ago, could explain why the sun’s atmosphere is so much hotter than its surface.
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If there ever was a global health system, then it has gone sadly missing when we needed it most.
Alamy/Mark Hawkins
Welsh Labour is on course to win but who else will secure seats in the Senedd?
The snailfish that inspired the robot.
Alan Jamieson
The device ventured nearly 11km below the surface to the Mariana Trench.
BBC Three is returning to UK screens.
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Despite belief that its demographic watch mostly on-demand through devices, there is logic to bringing BBC 3 back to TV.
In exile or prison: Belarus opposition figures Svetlana Tikhanovsksaya, Veronika Tsepkalo and Maria Kolesnikova.
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Opposition protests continue and there are signs they are beginning to have an effect both inside and outside Belarus.
The NHS will never ask you to pay to receive your COVID-19 vaccination.
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Here’s how you can avoid a COVID-19 vaccine scam.
John Keats by Joseph Severn (1819).
National Portrait Gallery
The doctor-turned-poet died 200 years ago.
INtelligence appears to be concentrated on the right-hand side of the stage.
EPA-EFE/Anatoly Maltsev
Once again allegations have surfaced that the former US president was a Russian ‘asset’. Maybe so, but that doesn’t mean he was their agent.
An oasis in the Sahara Desert, Libya.
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Wetlands in drylands seem impossible, but their benefits to people and wildlife are very real.
Still fit for purpose?
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The UK government has set up a committee to report on the future of public broadcasting – sounds ominous.
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Only three non-English UK-based authors have ever won the Booker prize. And all three of them were published by London presses.
Sunset at Holyhead, Wales.
Stuart Bould
While the English Channel and Irish land border have received most of the Brexit attention, the Irish Sea ports are a major concern.
EPSRC prize winning photograph by Alexander James Spence
How could a software box have a subjective viewpoint of, and in, the physical world that humans inhabit?
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Puede que las mascarillas nos oculten la boca, pero la ciencia dice que nos comunicamos mucho con los ojos.