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There are many strange cultures in the world that are hard to understand but still interesting enough to get people talking about them. In South America, the Yanomami people are also called Yanam or Senema. They live in Venezuela and parts of Brazil. This tribe is not interested in modernization …

  Facebook-parent company, Meta has said that it will restore former President Donald Trump’s accounts on Facebook and Instagram in the coming weeks, just over two years after suspending him in the wake of the January 6 Capitol attack.   Meta made the landmark decision to bar Trump from posting …

The US state of California is reeling from its third mass shooting in eight days after a man shot dead seven former co-workers south of San Francisco. The attacks took place in the coastal city of Half Moon Bay. Some of the victims were Chinese-American. Suspect Chunli Zhao, 66, was …

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has decided to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, and allow other countries to do the same, reports in Germany say. Leopard 2s are made in Germany and Berlin needs to approve their export. Germany has been hesitant to send its own – or allow other …

A butcher died while trying to slaughter a pig in Hong Kong on Friday, the city’s police said. The 61-year-old butcher, who worked in the Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse on the city’s northern outskirts close to its border with mainland China, was knocked to the ground by the struggling pig and …

  British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak has been fined for not wearing a seat belt in a moving car while filming a social media video. Lancashire Police said it had issued a 42-year-old man in London with a conditional offer of a fixed penalty. Mr Sunak had previously apologised for …

The US Supreme Court has been unable to determine how a controversial draft decision regarding abortion was leaked before it was formally announced. On Thursday, investigators said that they still do not know whether the leak was deliberate or unintentional after eight months of opening the probe. In May, a …

The three main figures in Ukraine’s interior ministry have been killed in a helicopter crash beside a nursery in an eastern suburb of the capital Kyiv. Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky, 42, died alongside his first deputy minister and state secretary. Fourteen people died when the helicopter came down in Brovary …

A French court has ordered a small town to remove a statue of the Virgin Mary, saying the religious display violates the separation of church and state. The statue is located at a crossroads in La Flotte, a municipality of 2,800 inhabitants on the popular holiday island Ile-de-Re, off France’s …

A plane with 72 people on board has crashed near an airport in central Nepal and 40 bodies have been recovered, officials say. The Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu to the tourist town of Pokhara crashed on landing, catching fire. Video posted on social media shows an aircraft flying low …