World News: 21 August 2022

Daughter of Russian ideologue killed in suspected car bomb attack
Darya Dugina, 29, died after an explosion on a road outside Moscow, Russia's investigative committee said. It is thought her father, the Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin, who is known as "Putin's brain", may have been the intended target of the attack.

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Finland, Sweden offer NATO an edge as rivalry warms up north
Finland — until 1917 a grand duchy in that empire — and Sweden abandoned longtime national policies of military nonalignment. They applied to come under NATO's nuclear and conventional umbrella and join 30 other member states in a powerful mutual defense pact, stipulating that an attack on one member is an attack on all.

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Iraq's foreign currency reserves above $80 Billion, central bank official says
The central bank's gold reserves have climbed 30 tonnes to stand at more than 131 tonnes now, Khalaf said.

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Article on ‘fat’ Arab women sparks uproar over body-shaming
The article triggered torrid criticism on social media. Twitter users blasted it as misogynistic. Local rights groups issued denunciations. Some writers were appalled by what they described as demeaning stereotypes about Arab women.

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China plans cloud seeding to protect grain crop from drought
China says it will try to protect its grain harvest from record-setting drought by using chemicals to generate rain, while factories in the southwest waited Sunday to see whether they would be shut down for another week due to shortages of water to generate hydropower.

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Portugal wildfires: State of alert begins amid third heatwave
Some 92,000 hectares of land have already burned this year, according to government estimates, with heatwaves and drought producing tinder-like conditions.

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