Fri 19 July 2024: Electronic prescription provider MediSecure has revealed that the personal data of approximately 12.9 million Australians were leaked during a cyber security incident earlier this year, Xinhua reported. On April 13, MediSecure discovered that a database server had been encrypted by suspected ransomware, before the incident was first notified to the public […]
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Fri 19 July 2024: US President Joe Biden could announce his decision to end his re-election campaign as soon as this weekend, according to a report published Thursday. The Axios news website based its reporting on comments from several top Democrats who said privately that rising intra-party pressures, including from leadership and close friends, “will […]
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Thu 18 July 2024: The power transmission system operators (TSOs) of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia have notified Russia of their intention to withdraw from the agreement that integrates their power grids with the Russia-controlled IPS/UPS system. According to Latvian TSO Augstsprieguma Tikls (AST), this transition will take effect in February 2025, when the Baltic states […]
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Thu 18 July 2024: A Polish state-owned company sold parts which were used in Iranian combat drones, private broadcaster Radio Zet reported on Thursday. No sources for the information were named, said Reuters, but prosecutors had been investigating the issue since 2022. Iran has supplied thousands of Shahed-136 “kamikaze” drones to Russia since its invasion of Ukraine in […]
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Thu 18 July 2024: Ukraine has delivered 1,000 tonnes of wheat flour to the Palestinian Territories, in the first shipment under an initiative to combat famine across the developing world. In an announcement on his Telegram channel today, Andriy Yermak, Ukraine’s Head of the Office of the President, revealed that a ship carrying 1,000 tonnes […]
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Thu 18 July 2024: US President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 while campaigning in Las Vegas, Nevada, the White House announced Wednesday. He exhibited “upper respiratory symptoms,” such as a runny nose, cough, and “general malaise,” but felt okay during his first campaign stop. A subsequent test confirmed the positive result. Spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre […]
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Thu 18 July 2024: An investigative documentary aired by a local broadcaster shines a spotlight on Australia’s treatment of children from indigenous communities. CCTV footage shows indigenous children being placed in isolation cells in a state of distress. One video features a 14-year-old Indigenous girl, referred to as Sam, being put into an isolation cell […]
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Thu 18 July 2024: A rare whale washed ashore in New Zealand, and officials state “nothing is known about” this species. The whale was discovered last week near Taiari Mouth in the Otago region of the South Island. The Department of Conservation (DoC) was alerted by locals. The 5-meter long creature appears to be a […]
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Thu 18 July 2024: Elon Musk has said he will move SpaceX and X out of California over a law that bans schools from forcing teachers to notify parents when their child changes their gender identity. Musk said on Tuesday that he would relocate the companies’ headquarters to Texas after California Governor Gavin Newsom signed […]
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Wed 17 July 2024: Italy’s Premier Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday said “illegal migrants are the enemies of legal ones,” as she explained her government’s new approach at the Trans-Mediterranean Migration Forum in Tripoli, Libya. “We have not been able to allow many legal migrants to come to Italy in recent years because we have had […]
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