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The case comes amidst a national inquiry examining allegedly widespread corruption involving police officers and politicians.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
Petrol prices are up by more than 14 percent at the pump, and last week authorities ordered widespread rolling blackouts to save precious natural gas.
From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026
“Although widespread infection- and vaccine-conferred immunity have decreased rates of severe COVID-19 over time, the public health impact of COVID-19 is still considerable,” scientists recently wrote in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026
This allows them to refine their communication strategies in real time and generate what appears to be widespread public agreement.
From Science Daily • Apr. 20, 2026
It seemed to many, including Karl Marx who published the first part of Das Kapital in 1867, to promote nothing but widespread poverty, inequality and hopelessness.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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