World News: 28 December 2022

Amazon packages burn in India, final stop in broken recycling system
Plastic wrappers and parcels that start off in Americans’ recycling bins end up at illegal dumpsites and industrial furnaces — and inside the lungs of people in Muzaffarnagar.

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Russia bans oil sales to countries using price cap
Russia is the world's second largest exporter of oil and was, in 2021, the second most in-demand supplier to the countries of the European Union. According to European leaders, 90 per cent of Russian oil exports to the EU will already be stopped by the end of 2022 in protest against the Russian offensive in Ukraine.

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Chinese rush to book travel as Covid rules lifted
Officials in the US are considering new restrictions on travellers from China due to concerns about a surge in cases and a lack of transparency from the Chinese government.

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Mavericks star Luka Doncic rewrites the record books with historic 60-point triple-double
He becomes just the seventh player in NBA history to record a 50-point triple-double and at 23 years, 302 days is also the youngest to do so, eclipsing the previous mark held by Wilt Chamberlain.

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Over 200 new planets found outside solar system in 2022
When the year started, the exoplanet catalogue had fewer than 5,000 planets since the planetary survey beyond our Solar System began.
As the year ends, that catalogue of the possible habitable world has grown to 5,235 exoplanets.

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Jihadi violence hits Benin, shows spread across West Africa
Violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group, which has wracked much of West Africa’s inland Sahel region for more than seven years, is spreading to the region's coastal states and Benin is the hardest hit

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