World News: 04 July 2023

‘Barbie’ banned in Vietnam over “Chinese propaganda”
Barbie is getting banned in Vietnam due to inclusion of “nine dash line map” depicting islands in South China Sea as being controlled by Beijing.

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Taliban order Afghanistan's hair and beauty salons to shut
When the Taliban were in power between 1996 and 2001, beauty salons were shut as part of a wide range of measures imposed by the extremist group.
The businesses however, reopened in the years after the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan.

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El Niño is back: Surging temperatures bring extreme weather and threaten lives
After three years of the cooling La Niña weather pattern, the WMO announced that El Niño is now underway and has a 90 per cent probability of continuing until the end of the year at moderate strength or higher. Temperature records are already being broken and El Niño could push the world past a new average temperature record.

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UN approves Japan's plan for Fukushima water release
The 1.3 million cubic metres of water – enough to fill 500 Olympic-sized swimming pools – was used to cool fuel rods at the Fukushima plant after it was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Japan has not specified a start date for the plan, which was conceived in 2021.

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Meta's Instagram Threads, a potential "Twitter killer," set to launch on July 6
With a user base of over 3 billion across Instagram, Facebook and Meta's other apps, Meta is the biggest competitor to Twitter.
The app allows users to follow individuals they are already following on Instagram, and it shares similarities with Twitter by prioritizing public interactions.

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China warns of 'multiple natural disasters' in July
China will face "multiple natural disasters in July, including floods, severe convection weather, typhoons and high temperatures.
Dozens of homes and roads were damaged in northwest China's Shaanxi province during "once-in-fifty-years" torrential rains over the weekend.

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