World News: 17 September 2022

Cheetahs make a return to India after 70 years
A tiger-faced plane, fitted with special cages that allowed access to the veterinary staff assisting in the translocation project, landed in Gwalior on Saturday morning, and the cheetahs were taken to the Kuno National Park in helicopter.

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Hacker couple deleted hotel chain data for fun
The hackers, calling themselves TeaPea, contacted the BBC on the encrypted messaging app, Telegram, providing screenshots as evidence that they had carried out the hack. The images, which IHG has confirmed are genuine, show they gained access to the company's internal Outlook emails, Microsoft Teams chats and server directories.

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Fury in Iran as young woman dies following morality police arrest
Mahsa Amini, 22, was on a visit to Tehran with her family when she was detained by the specialist police unit that enforces the strict dress code obligatory for women since shortly after the Islamic revolution of 1979.

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Dutch town sues Twitter over paedophilia rumour
The claims have prompted dozens of people to travel to the town's Vrederust cemetery to leave flowers and tributes at the graves of seemingly random dead children.

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Bank holdups snowball in Lebanon as depositors demand their own money
Seven banks have been held up since Wednesday in Lebanon, where commercial banks have locked most depositors out of their savings since an economic crisis took hold three years ago, leaving much of the population unable to pay for basics.

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Colourful songbirds could be traded to extinction
The study, published in the journal Current Biology, also showed that if the most desirable birds continued to be taken from the wild, the populations left in Asia’s tropical forests would gradually become “more drab”. The most striking, uniquely coloured birds would be the first to be lost.

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