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- Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was detained by police on Tuesday at an anti-coal protest in Germany, two days after she was removed from the same site. Thousands of protesters have descended on Lützerath, in western Germany, in recent days.
- People are cutting down trees in a famous national park in Congo to survive. Over 200 hectares of forest have been destroyed in Virunga National Park in just two months. This is happening in an area where many people from Congo have gone to escape fighting between rebels and the military.
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- The 2022 Annual State of Education Report (ASER) found a sharp drop in reading ability. The report found that the basic ability of young children to read text dropped to the lowest level since 2012. The report shows that the gradual improvement in comprehension levels noted in Indian students from 2014 to 2018 was undone during the pandemic.
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