>"The president of New Caledonia's Congress Roch Wamytan is set to be re-elected for another one-year term after the party holding the balance of power said it would again vote for him next week."

>""It was John who wanted a divorce," he says, setting the record straight on the band's break-up."

>"The number of new community cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand has dropped to single figures for the first time in weeks, with nine new _...Read More_

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If Belarus gets away with it, authoritarian dictators around the world will have a new tool of oppression.

>"Radioactive pollution left over from British nuclear tests in South Australia may steadily be _...Read More_

>"Leaders in Myanmar, Hong Kong, and India see no issue in blaming former colonial overlords while using their repressive laws."

Japan will start releasing more than 1 million metric tons of treated radioactive water from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean.

>"One hundred and ten years ago, Marie Sklodowska Curie was formally rejected for membership by the French Academy of Sciences."

>"Two New Yorker political writers on the early days of President Biden’s agenda, and the limits of the _...Read More_

"We need to challenge the very notion of gatekeeping itself."

>"A biologist and composer have turned the aurora borealis into sound to create a magic melding of art and nature"

>"The staff writer on some of the challenges to vaccination. Plus, the film critic Richard Brody talks with the director Steve McQueen _...Read More_