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Nutella, the hazelnut spread, which is taking over Italy’s farmland. Ferrero, the Italian company which makes Nutella, is the world’s largest buyer of hazelnuts and is trying to boost domestic production rather than buy from abroad. But farmers say it’ll create an agricultural monoculture that’ll wipe out biodiversity.
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The Taliban, which is going green. “These challenges ranging from world security and climate change need the collective efforts of all,” a member of the group’s Cultural Commission told Newsweek. Presumably it plans to reach net-zero “by taking Afghanistan back to the Middle Ages”, says the Daily Mail.
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Erik Prince, founder of the shady private security firm Blackwater, who is charging $6,500 for a seat on a private charter plane out of Kabul. “Making one last score on the forever wars,” says the journalist Bryan Denton on Twitter.
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Imogen Tite, an 11-year-old girl who reunited a wedding ring she found in the sea at Woolacombe Beach in Devon with its owner. After she made the discovery, her father posted an appeal on Facebook, which found its way to James Mizrahi just two days after he lost the ring while bodyboarding.
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Nurofen, antihistamines, IBS medication and Berocca. Once you’re pushing 30 you can’t handle a music festival without them, says Vice.
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Rudy Giuliani, who was called a “nasty pig” by actor Michael Rapaport for shaving in an airport restaurant. But airports should be a safe space for weird behaviour, says Rupert Hawksley in The Independent. You drink lager at 6am and “clean your teeth next to a stranger washing their armpits”. Giuliani “did the right thing: he went into flight mode”..