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Bad News Europe According to Missing Migrants, a documentation project by the UN-run International Organisation for Migration, 19,705 people have gone missing in the central Mediterranean since 2014. The Red Cross and Red Crescent Separated Families and Missing Persons Centre registered 16,500 people who were looking for 25,600 missing migrants across Europe in 2021 alone. …
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Good News World The Taliban have begun a campaign to eradicate poppy cultivation, aiming to wipe out the country’s production of opium and heroin. Afghanistan is the world’s biggest opium producer and a major source for heroin in Europe and Asia. The ban will, however, affect the livelihoods of many farmers and day labourers who…
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Good News World Central African Republic lawmakers have voted to abolish the death penalty, following Chad and Sierra Leone. Momentum is growing for abolition across the entire continent. Believing that the Supreme Court is about to overturn the Roe v Wade decision about access to abortion, the US Senate is trying to rush through legislation…
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