Tue 22 August 2023: Ukraine has threatened to prevent Israelis from entering its lands even those making pilgrimage to the city of Uman for Rosh Hashanah next month, news agencies reported on Sunday. This came in retaliation for Israel deporting Ukrainians who fled the war in their country. Speaking on Friday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky urged that […]
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Mon 21 August 2023: Private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK have jumped by 5.3% in the 12 months leading up to July, marking the largest annual percentage change since records began in 2016, data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed. The figure was up from 5.2% in the previous month, […]
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Mon 21 August 2023: Lucy Letby, the nurse convicted of murdering seven newborns, is suspected of harming dozens more babies at two hospitals in the north-west of England, according to police, The Guardian reported. According to a source familiar with the police inquiry, officers found roughly 30 babies who had “suspicious” incidents at the Countess […]
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Ukrainian drone smashed into a building in central Moscow, disrupting air traffic at all the civilian airports. August 18, 2023. Mon 21 August 2023: Russia says it foiled attacks by two Ukrainian drones in the Moscow region, but nearly 50 plane flights in and out of the capital were disrupted. Arrivals and departures from […]
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Sacked: Curator Peter Higgs had worked at museum for 35 years. Sun 20 August 2023: Treasures stolen from the British Museum are being auctioned off online for as little as $50, according to The Telegraph newspaper. The British Museum said Wednesday that it fired a staff member and notified police after discovering that items […]
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Sun 20 August 2023: Volodymyr Zelenskiy has vowed to hit back after seven people including a six-year-old girl were killed and 144 wounded in a Russian missile strike on a central square in the historic northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Saturday. The Ukrainian president said: “I am sure our soldiers will give a response to Russia for this […]
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Sat 19 August 2023: Canada’s transport minister called on Meta on Friday to lift the ban on domestic news so that Canadians can share developments regarding the ongoing wildfires in the west. Meta started blocking news on its Facebook and Instagram platforms for all users in Canada this month in response to a new law requiring […]
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Sat 19 August 2023: Nearly half a million soldiers on both sides may have been killed or wounded in the Ukraine war, according to a report by the New York Times on Friday, which quoted US government officials. At the same time, they warned that casualties were difficult to estimate because Kiev does not publish […]
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Sat 19 August 2023: Having nuclear weapons shields Russia from security challenges, and Moscow regularly warns the West about the dangers to avert a nuclear war, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. “The possession of nuclear arms is today the only possible response to some of significant external threats to security of our country,” Lavrov […]
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Fri 18 August 2023: A woman who sprayed an anti-Islam protester with fire extinguisher as he staged a Quran-burning protest outside the Iranian Embassy in Stockholm was detained by Swedish police. The woman was captured on camera running up to Salwan Momika and spraying him with white powder before being stopped by plainclothes police officers […]
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