fact-check:-fr.-flavie-villanueva-is-still-a-priest,-not-defrocked

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Claim: Catholic priest Flaviano “Flavie” Villanueva was removed from his priestly duties for allegedly receiving suitcases of money sourced from public funds and misappropriating billions of pesos.  Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: The YouTube video containing the claim has 4,500 views, 334 likes, and 72 comments as of writing.Continue Reading

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Videos posted by social media users showed smoke rising from the US embassy in Baghdad after a reported attack., Skip links Skip to Content Live Navigation menu News Africa Asia US & Canada Latin America Europe Asia Pacific Middle East Explained Opinion Sport Video Features Economy Human Rights Climate CrisisContinue Reading

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Yemen’s government rejects new shipping surcharges, as fears grow of humanitarian crisis., Mukalla, Yemen – A reported decision to impose thousands of dollars in fees on shipping headed for Yemen has experts worried that the price of imported goods and food will increase in the war-torn country, as it startsContinue Reading

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If Reuters report is to be believed, SUSE Linux is again up for sale in the market with a price tag of $6 billion. This is about enterprise-oriented SUSE Linux. openSUSE, on the other hand, is community-managed but heavily funded by SUSE. I like to think of SUSE Linux asContinue Reading

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Here are the steps you need to upgrade your Fedora 41 workstation edition to Fedora 42. Fedora 42 is officially available for download and the upgrade channels are now available. This release brings the latest and greatest GNOME 48 desktop for workstation editions, refinements to KDE Plasma desktop, new CosmicContinue Reading

of-the-many-factors-that-cause-wildfires,-the-influence-of-climate-change-and-human-activities-is-growing

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This past summer was the hottest ever recorded…again. As monthly heat records fell one by one worldwide, wildfires also became front-page news throughout 2023. From across North America, Greece, Chile, Algeria, and Kazakhstan among many others, wildfires burned uncontrollably. The striking orange New York City skyline was the result ofContinue Reading

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In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, long before vaccines became available, many countries acted to curb the spread of the virus by imposing restrictions on people’s movement called lockdowns. Lockdowns have saved lives by reducing the physical interactions between infected and uninfected people, which in turn reduces transmissionContinue Reading

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1.5 is an important number in climate science. It is the recommended target, in degrees Celsius, to which global warming should be limited relative to preindustrial levels, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s leading authority on climate science[1]. Further, the legally binding Paris Agreement tasksContinue Reading