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1st PAPAL VISIT SINCE 1981 Pope slated to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki in late NovemberJune 15, 2019 Pope Francis will likely travel to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in November in what will be the first papal visit to Japan in 38 years, government and other sources said.
PLANET OF THE APES Chimps’ taste for crabs rewrites history of early human ancestorsJune 15, 2019 Researchers who discovered that chimpanzees living in the rainforests of Guinea in West Africa are fond of eating freshwater crabs said the finding may reshape perceptions of early human ancestors.

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