World News: 24 June 2022

World Bank sees Mozambique economy growing 5.7% on average between 2022 and 2024
The start of LNG production at the offshore Coral project and the expected resumption of other LNG projects would help spur the southeast African nation's growth, the World Bank said in a statement.

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Boris Johnson under pressure after UK election defeats
The Tories lost the South West seat of Tiverton and Honiton to the centrist Liberal Democrats on Thursday, while the main opposition Labour party regained the West Yorkshire seat of Wakefield in northern England.

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Texas repeatedly raises pollution limits for Cheniere LNG plant
Cheniere, the largest U.S. exporter of liquefied natural gas, boasts that it’s helping to “improve local air quality in communities globally” because the cleaner burning fuel it ships displaces coal in power plants.

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Dire Italian drought worsening, breaking records, water authority says
Italy’s longest river, the Po, which crosses the major northern regions and accounts for around a third of the country’s agricultural production, is experiencing its worst drought for 70 years.

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Pressure mounts on South Korea to reopen case of deported North Korean fishermen
South Korea's ruling party members and rights activists are calling on the government to reopen a 2019 case of the repatriation of two North Korean fishermen, blaming the previous government of trying to curry favour with Pyongyang.

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Latin America's kids slid into education black hole during pandemic
In Bolivia's highland city La Paz, Maribel Sanchez's children spent much of the last two years huddling over a small smartphone screen to attend online classes amid a lengthy lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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