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MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia will provide A$3 million ($2.03 million) for research on the use of cannabis to help cancer patients, its health minister said on Sunday, as the demand for medicinal cannabis products grows rapidly.
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On a two-acre field in England’s Midlands, Gavin and Alice Munro are taking sustainability to the next level: they harvest trees which they train to grow into chairs.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to take up a major abortion case that could lead to new curbs on access to the procedure as it considers the legality of a Republican-backed Louisiana law that imposes restrictions on abortion doctors.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called on Saturday for New Zealand to have a more open conversation about its history, as commemorations kicked off to mark the landing of the British explorer James Cook 250 years ago.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Diahann Carroll, a versatile singer and stage actress who quietly blazed a trail for black women on American television in the late 1960s by playing a widowed nurse and single mother in “Julia,” died on Friday at age 84, her manager said.
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In a community meeting this morning, Wutung Villagers in Vanimo have agreed to petition the Government to have West Papuan
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures as he gives a closing speech at the Conservative Party annual conference in
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The Batas Market on the PNG-Indonesian Border remains closed for business today following unconfirmed reports of a shootout at the
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The Pacific region, over the years has moved from eating a lot of fresh food to becoming a people of
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Photo File: Waves crash on a wall at the port of Angra do Heroismo in Azores, Portugal October 2,
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FILE PHOTO: Rugby Union – Rugby World Cup 2019 – Pool C – England v Tonga – Sapporo Dome, Sapporo,
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FILE PHOTO: Gabriela Soto prepares insects for lunch, while her husband biologist Federico Paniagua (unseen) promotes the ingestion of
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People living along the PNG-Indonesia border have reported a build up of Indonesian troop numbers following clashes with armed West
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FILE PHOTO: Indonesian President Joko Widodo gestures during an interview with Reuters at the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei said on Thursday the company is already producing 5G base stations that are free of U.S. components and plans to more than double production next year.
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