A French scientist who tweeted a "Picture of Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun, located 4.2 light years away" as "taken by the James Webb Space Telescope," now admits the image was a close-up of a slice of chorizo against a black background. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/05/europe/scientist-space-image-chorizo-intl-scli-scn/index.html

Journalists in Cambodia are facing increasing threats and being prevented from doing their jobs amid growing restrictions on press freedom and civic and political rights, the U.N human rights office there said this week. https://bit.ly/3JEe3qE

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