INACTIVE GOOGLE ACCOUNTS WILL BE DELETED STARTING FRIDAY. HERE’S HOW TO PREVENT IT

Fri 01 December 2023: Google will begin removing user accounts that haven’t been used for a few years on Friday, December 1, according to a BBC report.  Under its inactive account policy, the tech giant will start the purge, albeit in a phased manner, with accounts that “were created and never used again” getting the […]

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EU COUNTRIES’ 2023 MILITARY SPENDING SET TO REACH RECORD $295B

  German soldiers demonstrates the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) defense system, Jammer HP 47, at the German Defense Ministry. Fri 01 December 2023: The total defense spending of individual member countries of the European Union is on track to reach a record 270 billion euros ($295 billion) in 2023, as the Russia-Ukraine war rolls on, European Council […]

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RUSSIA’S SUPREME COURT BANS ‘LGBTQ MOVEMENT’ AS ‘EXTREMIST’

Thu 30 October 2023: Russia’s Supreme Court has ruled that LGBTQ activists should be designated as “extremists”, in a move that representatives of gay and transgender people fear will lead to arrests and prosecutions. The court ruled on Thursday that “the international LGBT public movement and its subdivisions” were extremist, and issued a “ban on […]

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PUTIN WON’T MAKE PEACE IN UKRAINE BEFORE 2024 U.S. ELECTION -U.S. OFFICIAL

Thu 30 October 2023: Russian President Vladimir Putin will not make peace in Ukraine before he knows the results of the November 2024 U.S. election, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Tuesday, amid concerns that a potential victory for former President Donald Trump could upend Western support for Kyiv. Trump, who is seeking […]

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NZ PLANS TO LIFT BAN ON SELLING CIGARETTES TO CHILDREN AGED 14, BELOW

Thu 30 October 2023: On Wednesday, the New Zealand government confirmed its 49-point agenda for the first 100 days, which includes removing the restriction on selling cigarettes under the age of 14, and outlawing cell phones in classrooms. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon affirmed his 49-point action plan at his Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, calling it […]

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GOOGLE AGREES TO PAY CANADA NEWS PUBLISHERS $100M A YEAR TO KEEP NEWS IN SEARCH

Thu 30 October 2023: Google and the Canadian government came to an agreement on Wednesday whereby the search engine giant will pay Canadian news businesses CAN$100 million (US$73.6 million) a year to share their stories on its platforms. The agreement averts Google’s threat to prevent Canadians from searching for Canadian news on Google in Canada […]

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HENRY KISSINGER: NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING ‘WARMONGER’ HAS DIED AT AGE 100

Thu 30 October 2023: New York, United States – Few Nobel Peace Prize winners are called warmongers, but the gravelly-voiced, enigmatic diplomat Henry Kissinger was. The contradictions of Kissinger, who died on Wednesday at home in Connecticut at age 100, do not end there. An academic who became a celebrity, Kissinger was a Jewish teenager who fled the […]

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AMERICAN BABY FOOD STILL CONTAINS PESTICIDES, BUT IN A LESS TOXIC FORM: RESEARCH

Wed 29 October 2023: Baby food in the United States may still contain potentially harmful pesticides, but is less toxic than it was about 30 years ago, according to a new study by a nonprofit U.S. environmental group. Some 38 percent of conventional, or non-organic, baby food in the United States, is found to contain […]

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NEW UNSC MEMBERSHIP SHOULD ONLY BE EXTENDED TO DEVELOPING NATIONS -RUSSIAN FM

Mon 27 October 2023: Any new United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members should come from developing countries, Russian media reported Monday, citing Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the Primakov Readings International Forum in Moscow. “It is important to redress the historical injustices that emerged following the end of the decolonization process and since the emergence […]

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BIDEN REPORTEDLY IGNORED STAFF CAUTION ON ‘BEHEADED ISRAELI BABIES’

Mon 27 October 2023: US President Joe Biden reportedly rejected the advice of staff to refrain from repeating unverified reports that Hamas had beheaded babies during its attack on Israel on October 7. Some White House advisors appealed to the president to “cut a line about Hamas beheading babies because those reports were unverified”, according […]

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