Sun 19 October 2023: Fifteen government agencies have been keeping an eye on possible critics’ social media activity and gathering “secret files” to prevent them from speaking at public gatherings, a new Observer report has claimed. According to the report, several government departments, including the departments of health, culture, media and sport, and environment, food […]
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Sun 19 October 2023: Russia on Friday added The Moscow Times, an online publication covering Russia, to its list of foreign agents, a label authorities commonly use to stifle critics. Russia’s justice ministry also added an artist and journalists to the list that it traditionally updates on Fridays. “The online publication The Moscow Times disseminated […]
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Sun 19 October 2023: Tens of thousands of protesters have marched through Madrid in opposition to a controversial Catalan amnesty law that enabled Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to form a government for a second term. Sanchez’s Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) secured the backing of the Catalan separatist Junts party by offering amnesty to those linked […]
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Sat 18 October 2023: In the third quarter of this year, global debt surpassed $307 trillion, according to a report by the Institute of International Finance (IIF). “Global debt reached a staggering $307 trillion in Q3 2023, with a big increase across the board in both mature markets, the US, Japan, France, and the UK, […]
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Sat 18 October 2023: Russian authorities have filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court to outlaw the LGBTQ “international public movement”, in the latest crackdown against the country’s beleaguered community. The Ministry of Justice said it had “lodged an administrative legal claim” aimed at recognising the LGBTQ movement “as extremist and banning its activity in […]
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Fri 17 October 2023: In an alarming letter obtained by the British media, sixty senior women within the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) have highlighted a workplace culture plagued by allegations of sexual assault, harassment, and abuse perpetrated by male coworkers. The letter, which was apparently delivered last month to the UK Ministry of Defence’s […]
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Fri 17 October 2023: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview published on Friday that he hoped President Vladimir Putin would run in the March election for another term as Russian president, a move that would keep the Kremlin chief in power until at least 2030. Putin, who was handed the presidency by Boris […]
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Fri 17 October 2023: A Canadian man inspired by white nationalist beliefs has been found guilty of murdering four members of a Muslim family by running them over with a pick-up truck in an attack that sent waves of shock, grief and fear across the country and spurred calls to tackle Islamophobia. On Thursday, 22-year-old Nathaniel Veltman, who […]
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Thu 16 October 2023: Russia plans to provide lessons to high school students on operating and countering unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The Ministry of Education has drafted a decision on military preparedness training in schools. According to the draft included in the Federal Legal Regulations System, students will be informed about basic elements of military […]
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Wed 15 October 2023: The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said on Tuesday (Nov 14) that artificial intelligence (AI) posed a threat to the upcoming national election. In its annual review, the NCSC said that this year saw the emergence of state-aligned actors as a new cyber threat to critical national infrastructure such as […]
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