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  1. Brazil's Senate recommends Bolsonaro face criminal charges over COVID-19 response

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    A Brazilian Senate committee recommended on Tuesday that President Jair Bolsonaro face a series of criminal indictments for actions and omissions related to the world's second-highest COVID-19 death toll.

  2. Donated frequent-flyer miles providing flights for Afghan refugees in the U.S.

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    A campaign that began with ordinary people donating frequent-flyer miles has raised enough in two months to provide 40,000 flights for refugees from Afghanistan, and organizers and the White House are looking to nearly double that figure.

  3. This Black woman refused to move to the back of a bus in 1955. Now she wants her record cleared

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    Claudette Colvin, an 82-year-old Black woman who became a civil rights pioneer when she was arrested as a teen for refusing to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955, wants to have her records expunged.

  4. Why India can't live without coal despite its negative environmental effects

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    India is not yet ready to leave coal behind, a critical energy source that provides more than 70 percent of the developing country's power as well as 4 million jobs, even as those in coal-rich states struggle with water scarcity and pollution.

  5. Sudanese prime minister released after being held at general's home following military takeover

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    The release of Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok and his wife followed international condemnation of the coup and calls for the military to release all the government officials who were detained when Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan seized power on Monday.