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Africa's megacity of Lagos reshapes its coast by dredging and puts environment at risk
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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Beneath an eight-lane expressway, Nigerian men stand waist-deep in the Lagos Lagoon, lowering buckets into murky water. Each load brings up sand, reshaping the coastline of Africa's largest city and driving away fish and livelihoods for some of its poorest people.
Not far from the bridge, wooden boats ... (full story)
Germany sharply rejects RFK Jr.'s claims that it prosecutes doctors for vaccine exemptions
BERLIN (AP) — The German government has sharply rejected accusations by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claiming that it has been sidelining patient autonomy, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"The statements made by the US Secretary of Health are completely unfounded, factually incorrect, and must ... (full story)
How NATO works at a time of Trump's Greenland threats
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BRUSSELS (AP) — President Donald Trump's repeated threats to seize control of Greenland are straining relations with U.S. allies in NATO and have sparked a warning that doing so by force could spell the end of the world's biggest security alliance.
Tensions have routinely spiked among some of NATO's members over the decade ... (full story)
George Floyd and Renee Good: 5 years between Minneapolis videos, and confusion has increased
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Five years ago, video images from a Minneapolis street showing a police officer kneeling on the neck of George Floyd as his life slipped away ignited a social movement.
Now, videos from another Minneapolis street showing the last moments of Renee Good's life are central to another debate about law enforcement in America. They've ... (full story)
China and Japan, uneasy neighbors in East Asia, are at odds again
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BEIJING (AP) — They're at it again.
China and Japan — frenemies, trading partners and uneasy neighbors with a tortured, bloody history they still struggle to navigate — are freshly at each other's rhetorical throats as 2026 begins. And it's over the same sticking points that have kept them resentful and suspici ... (full story)