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topnews:Wait, is Russia going to invade Ukraine? 2021 A Ukrainian soldier walks under a camouflage net in a trench on the line of separation from pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on December 3. | Andriy Dubchak/A…
topnews:Germany’s new government has big plans. It might be a shock after Merkel. 2021 Olaf Scholz, center, is the new chancellor of Germany, leading a coalition of three parties: his German Social Democrats, the German Free D…
topnews:The ocean’s rarest mammal has a few final lessons to teach us 2021 A vaquita skeleton is exhibited at the temporary show “Oceans” in the Universum museum in Mexico City. The vaquita is a critically endangered species o…
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