World News: 20 May 2023

Zelenskyy arrives at G7 in Japan, says meetings will bring peace 'closer'
It is Zelenskyy's first post-war trip to the Asia-Pacific - and offers a chance to confer with allies, but also to woo key unaligned powers also joining the summit, including India and Brazil.

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Turks abroad begin voting in presidential election runoff
Some 3.4 million Turks are eligible to vote abroad, out of a total electorate of more than 64 million, and will cast their ballots from May 20-24.
State-owned Anadolu news agency said voting had started in countries across Asia and Europe. Germany is home to the world's largest Turkish diaspora, where there are some 1.5 Turkish citizens eligible to vote.

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Mexico moving migrants away from borders to relieve pressure
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security reported Friday that in the week since the policy change, Border Patrol averaged 4,000 encounters a day with people crossing between ports of entry. That was down dramatically from the more than 10,000 daily average immediately before.
Between the migrants who rushed to cross the border in the days before the U.S. policy change and Mexico's efforts to move others to the country's interior, shelters in northern border cities currently find themselves below capacity.

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Zimbabwe: Amnesty frees a fifth of prisoners from overcrowded jails
Prisoners aged 60 years old and above and juveniles are among beneficiaries of the amnesty, while those who have been on the death row for the past 10 years had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment.
Zimbabwe still has the death penalty but has not hanged anyone since 2005. President Emmerson Mnangagwa has previously said he is against the death penalty.

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Hebrew Bible becomes world's most valuable manuscript
The Codex Sassoon is more than 1,000 years old, dating from the late 9th or early 10th century, and sold for $38.1 million at Sotheby’s in New York on Wednesday.
The Codex Sassoon was bought by US lawyer and former ambassador Alfred Moses for the ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Climate Change is hurting the Earth. It will hurt your wallet, too
Most people live in cities and can’t envision how losing the world’s largest rainforest actually affects them.
One example of how climate change can severely impact our lives is through food. Rising CO2 levels cause increased fungal diseases in wheat, which can jeopardise our food sources and the production sectors that gain profit from it.

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