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NEWS OF THE WEEK: The Weeknd donates $1 million to aid displaced Ethiopians

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NEWS OF THE WEEK: The Weeknd donates $1 million to aid displaced Ethiopians

NEWS OF THE WEEK: The Weeknd donates $1 million to aid displaced Ethiopians

The Weeknd has donated $1 million (£720,000) to hunger relief charities in Ethiopia, where government officials are “leading a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing”, according to an internal U.S. government report given to the New York Times.


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