Bus crash kills dozens of migrants just back in Afghanistan after Iran deported them, officials say

[ad_1] Seventy-six people were killed in a collision between a bus carrying Afghan migrants and two other vehicles in western Afghanistan, a provincial official said Wednesday. “Seventy-six citizens of the country … lost their lives in the incident, and three others were seriously injured,” Mohammad Yousuf Saeedi, Herat provincial government spokesman, said in a statement….

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Japan’s ruling party has elected Sanae Takaichi as new leader, and she’s likely to become country’s first female prime minister

[ad_1] Japan’s governing party on Saturday elected former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line ultra-conservative and China hawk, as its new leader, making her likely to become the country’s first female prime minister. In a country that ranks poorly internationally for gender equality, the 64-year-old Takaichi makes history as the first female leader of…

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“Brutally savage” Russian strike kills at least 20 in east Ukraine as pensions were handed out, Zelenskyy says

[ad_1] A Russian strike on Tuesday killed 21 people during the distribution of pension payments in a front-line town of eastern Ukraine threatened by Moscow’s push to capture the entire industrial region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday. Zelenskyy posted amateur video showing several corpses strewn on the ground, and a burned-out minivan near a…

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These United States: Brown v. Board of Education

[ad_1] In December 1953, Thurgood Marshall, an attorney who headed the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that racial segregation in America was an attempt to keep the formerly enslaved in “as near that stage as is possible.” Bill Whitaker reports on how a long-standing legal doctrine was ended. [ad_2] Source…

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