World News: 23 May 2023

WhatsApp to allow users to edit messages within 15 minutes
The new feature will be available to its two billion users globally over the coming weeks. The messaging app was founded by Jan Koum and Brian Acton in 2009 and acquired by Facebook — now known as Meta — in 2014.
With this addition to the app, the company will join the ranks of messaging platforms like Signal and Telegram which already offer message editing services.

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Pakistan foreign minister says India abusing G20 with Kashmir meet
Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari strongly criticised the international community Monday for "turning a blind eye" to India's savagery in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), saying it was "not wise to sacrifice timeless principles for short-term interests".

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In the Amazon, Brazilian ecologists try new approach against deforestation and poverty
The goal is ambitious, counter the forces that have destroyed 10% of the forest in less than four decades and create something that can be replicated in other parts of the Amazon.
It began with a four-month expedition along the Juruá River in 2016. Researchers visited some 100 communities that at first sight looked similar: rows of wooden homes on stilts along the water. But they were struck by contrasts in the living conditions.

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New Zealand loses battle against Australia over manuka honey trademark
It argues mānuka is a Māori word and a distinctive product of New Zealand.
But the Australian Manuka Honey Association has been appealing the effort in multiple markets - saying honey produced there can also be called mānuka.

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Nigeria opens Africa’s biggest oil refinery as it tries to boost struggling sector
The $19 billion facility built by Aliko Dangote, Africa’s wealthiest man, in Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos is one of the world’s biggest oil refineries and has a capacity of 650,000 barrels per day.
The refinery will start operations before the end of July, Dangote said, operating alongside a fertilizer plant and powered by a 435-megawatt power station.

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Malaysia raids Swatch stores, seizes colorful watches linked to gay pride
Predominantly Muslim Malaysia criminalizes same-sex relationships, with punishments ranging from caning under Islamic laws to 20 years in prison for sodomy under colonial-era civil laws. The opposition Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party recently criticized a scheduled concert in November by British band Coldplay because of its support of the LGBT movement.

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