World News: 05 July 2022

Australia is exterminating tens of millions of bees to save its honey industry
Australia is the last major honey-producing nation to be hit by a varroa mite plague and is taking the measure to kill thousands of honeybee colonies to stop the mites spreading.

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Google's July 4 animation angers internet amid Chicago mass shooting
Internet users accused Google of being "tone deaf" for showing happy animations of fireworks over a layout of news showing updates about the mass shooting, in which six people were killed.

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Finland, Sweden sign to join NATO but need ratification
The move further increases Russia's strategic isolation in the wake of its invasion of neighboring Ukraine in February and military struggles there since. “This is truly a historic moment for Finland, for Sweden and for NATO,” said alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.

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China's Shanghai announces two new rounds of mass COVID testing
The city government said on Tuesday on its official WeChat account that all residents in nine of the city's 16 districts would be tested twice from Tuesday to Thursday.

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Abortion worries heightened for unauthorized immigrants in the U.S.
Thirteen states passed laws that aimed to trigger full or partial bans to abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, radically reshaping access to abortion across the country.

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Algeria marks 60 years of independence with military parade
The events mark the country's official declaration of independence on July 5, 1962, after a brutal seven-year war which ended 132 years of colonial rule. The war, which killed at least 1.5 million people, remains a point of tension in relations between Algeria and France.

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