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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mon 27 October 2023: Britain’s King Charles has been secretly profiting from dead citizens’ assets, according to British daily The Guardian. “The Duchy of Lancaster, a controversial land and property estate that generates huge profits for King Charles III, has collected tens of millions of pounds in recent years,” The Guardian reported on Thursday. The […]
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Mon 27 October 2023: Russia has put the communications director of social media company Meta on a wanted list, it has been revealed, amid Moscow’s announcement of new media restrictions ahead of next year’s presidential election. Andy Stone, a spokesperson of US tech giant Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, is wanted on […]
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