World News: 16 May 2023

Hitler speech on train sparks investigation in Austria
A recent study by the Institute for Empirical Social Research found Nazism is on the rise inside the central European country, with one in three now believing Jews exert growing "power and influence" in politics and the media.
The government-commissioned research, published in April, said multiple social crises, including the COVID pandemic, inflation and the Ukraine war, have caused radical views and conspiracy thinking to surge.

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CIA urges Russians to spy on their own country
In the video - published on the CIA’s official YouTube channel and the Telegram messaging app, popular in Russia - a male voice reflects on the meaning of heroism and endurance as lone individuals are seen weighing their decisions: a man trudging through snow, a woman staring through a window.

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Beijing LGBT Center shuttered as crackdown grows in China
The Beijing LGBT Centre described its mission as evolving; it started as a safe space for the community to host events. Then it became an advocacy group aiming to "improve the living conditions for the sexually diverse community.” They offered low-cost mental health counselling and published lists of of LGBTQ-friendly health professionals.

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UK men offered £10K to pose as dads in visa scam, BBC investigation finds
They are being offered up to £10,000 to add their names to birth certificates - enabling a child to get UK citizenship and giving mothers a residency route.
Scammers are using Facebook to tout for business and claim to have helped thousands of women in this way. Facebook says such content is banned by its rules.

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World Bank suspends $1 billion worth of project funding in Congo
The suspension will affect more than 600,000 beneficiaries, including victims of sexual violence, the World Bank told Congo’s finance minister last week in a letter seen by Reuters. A World Bank spokesperson confirmed its authenticity.

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Cannes Film Festival kicks off Tuesday with Johnny Depp and ‘Jeanne du Barry’
Stars set to hit Cannes' red carpet in the next week and a half include Natalie Portman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Sean Penn, Alicia Vikander, the Weeknd and Scarlett Johansson.

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