Mon 19 August 2024: US business mogul Elon Musk on Monday firmly denied allegations that he had gifted a Tesla Cybertruck to the head of Russia’s Chechnya region, Ramzan Kadyrov. “Are you seriously so retarded that you think I donated a Cybertruck to a Russian general?” Musk wrote on his social media platform, X, using […]
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Mon 19 August 2024: The British government has activated emergency measures to ease prison overcrowding in England, as more far-right rioters are set to be jailed for their role in the recent violent disorder. The system, known as Operation Early Dawn, has been activated to allow the government to keep defendants waiting for court appearances […]
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Mon 19 August 2024: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has revealed that the recent Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region was intended to create a “buffer zone” to separate Ukraine from Russia and hinder Moscow’s military operations. In a late Sunday interview on his official Telegram account, Zelenskyy emphasized the strategic importance of the operation. During […]
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Sun 18 August 2024: Britain is experiencing a “brain drain” of talented middle-class Muslims due to rising Islamophobia, according to Harris Bokhari, a key adviser to the King on race relations. In a report by The Times on Friday, Bokhari highlighted growing concerns within the Muslim community following recent riots and attacks on mosques, leading many to feel […]
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Sun 18 August 2024: Over recent months, a number of politicians have supported calls to ban social media for children under 16 in Australia. Currently, kids under 13 are not allowed to use social media. There’s some research that suggests social media can be helpful for certain young people by, for example, connecting them with like-minded peers. That […]
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Sun 18 August 2024: Elon Musk announced on Saturday that the social media platform X would close its operations in Brazil “effective immediately” due to what it called “censorship orders” from the Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes. X claims Moraes secretly threatened one of its legal representatives in the South American country with arrest if […]
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Sun 18 August 2024: Ukraine’s military operation across the Russian border has led to the capture of over 150 Russian prisoners of war (POWs) on some days, according to Oleksii Drozdenko, head of the military administration in Sumy. Drozdenko described the attack as the first of “several stages” aimed at taking the fight to Moscow. […]
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Sat 17 August 2024: Nearly half of Canadians say rising prices are greatly affecting their ability to make ends meet, a significant jump from two years ago, according to a new Statistics Canada report. The report, using data from the spring 2024 cycle of the Canadian Social Survey, shows that 45 percent of Canadians say […]
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Fri 16 August 2024: “Your enemy is not in a dinghy in the English Channel. Your enemy is on a yacht in the Channel Islands” In an exclusive interview with TRT World, British activist and rapper Lowkey provides a poignant analysis of the UK’s past, present, and future, amidst the country’s ongoing riots”. Source: TRT […]
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Fri 16 August 2024: A missing portrait of King Henry VIII has been spotted in the background of a photo shared on social media. Art historian Adam Busiakiewicz, a consultant for Sotheby’s auction house, saw the piece in a photo shared by Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire, reported New York Post. The image was taken during an official […]
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