Tue 20 August 2024: Maria Branyas, the world’s oldest woman, passed away peacefully in her sleep, just as she had wished. Her family announced her death on X, expressing that she left “peacefully and without pain.” Born in San Francisco in 1907 during the second wave of the Bubonic plague, Maria moved to Spain in […]
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Sham Supermarket on Donegall Road, a Muslim business that was targeted twice during rioting in Belfast, Northern Ireland, August 11, 2024 [Photo: Facebook] Tue 20 August 2024: Several businesses were targeted in a wave of unrest that unleashed violent racism onto British streets. As rioters went on the attack in dozens of British towns and cities […]
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Mon 19 August 2024: Ukrainian authorities have issued an urgent evacuation order for families with children in the eastern city of Pokrovsk, as Russian forces rapidly advance despite Ukraine’s recent incursion into Russia’s Kursk region. Local officials have warned that the situation is dire, with Russian troops advancing so quickly that residents of Pokrovsk and […]
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Mon 19 August 2024: An ear is like an iceberg – much of it is out of sight. The only visible part is the auricle – the seashell shaped structure made of bendy cartilage, covered in skin. Its main role is to act as a trumpet, filtering and funnelling sound waves down into the middle, then the inner […]
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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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