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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Wed 17 July 2024: US President Joe Biden is behind Republican nominee Donald Trump in all seven major swing states, according to a poll released Tuesday. The YouGov poll for the Times/SAY24 shows Biden trailing in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin from July 4-12, the week following the presidential debate and […]
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Wed 17 July 2024: The foundations of the international legal order, strategic stability and the UN-centric system of global politics are being put to the test, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday. “It will be impossible to resolve the conflicts that are multiplying and without getting to the root causes and restoring faith in […]
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Tue 16 July 2024: Mount Etna, situated on the island of Sicily in Italy, erupted again, spewing ash clouds and streams of molten lava. The Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) reported that the Voragine crater, which had recently been active, began erupting ash and lava on Monday night. The INGV noted, “Lava […]
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