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Jerusalem
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Jerusalem
November 1979: The film Monty Python's Life of Brian is released in the UK. I go to see it at the ABC Haymarket cinema in Newcastle. Built in 1933 to…
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Omens
November 2023 President Joe Biden: ‘I think what happens in the next two, three years is going to determine what the world looks like for the next five…
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Who Inherits the Earth?
Doomscrollers or bookworms?
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The Hard Stuff
January 2024 The South Sudan government ban sales of a gin that has been linked to several deaths. The governor of Central Equatoria, Adi Anthony, is…
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Malaria
22 January 2024 The world’s first malaria vaccine programme starts in Cameroon, a revolution in health for Africa. Cameroon alone had 6 million cases in…
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A New Way
How to make changes
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