Fri 15 December 2023: The Duke of Sussex has been awarded £140,600 ($154,146) after bringing a phone hacking claim against a tabloid newspaper publisher at the High Court. Justice Fancourt says directors “turned a blind eye and positively concealed” unlawful information gathering. He has concluded there was “extensive” phone hacking, generally by Mirror Group Newspapers […]
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Water from the subsurface ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus sprays from huge fissures out into space. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which captured this image in 2010, sampled icy particles and scientists are continuing to make new discoveries from the data. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Fri 15 December 2023: NASA announced on Thursday that they have found […]
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Thu 14 December 2023: Australia became the first country to ban the engineered stone following reports of a surge in lung disease silicosis among workers developing the stones, local media reported on Wednesday. The decision was made during a meeting of the Commonwealth, state, and territory workplace ministers, according to ABC News. The ban will […]
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Thu 14 December 2023: Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a lavish Roman villa near the Colosseum with a “unparalleled” mosaic of shells, marble, and precious glass, the cultural ministry announced on Tuesday. Not far from the famous Colosseum in Rome, archaeologists have discovered some rooms of an ancient Roman town house with special mosaics. Researchers […]
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Wed 13 December 2023: The three-day Global Refugee Forum 2023 (GRF) kicked off here on Wednesday, with some 4,000 delegates from 165 countries expected to attend the forum. The delegates, including refugee leaders, heads of state, business leaders, among others, are to address the urgent challenges and long-term solutions needed for the current more than […]
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Wed 13 December 2023: The National Bank of Serbia (NBS) and the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) recently on establishing a clearing arrangement and designating a clearing bank in Serbia for Chinese yuan transactions, the NBS said in a press release on Monday. At the signing ceremony, NBS Governor […]
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Wed 13 December 2023: A major cyberattack on Ukraine’s largest mobile operator on Tuesday disrupted a regional air raid warning service and some banking services for Ukrainians, according to the operator and local authorities. The Security Service of Ukraine said in a statement that it has opened criminal proceedings into the attack. Russia’s special services might […]
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Wed 13 December 2023: A declassified U.S. intelligence report assessed that the Ukraine war has cost Russia 315,000 dead and injured troops, or nearly 90% of the personnel it had when the conflict began, a source familiar with the intelligence said on Tuesday. The report also assessed that Moscow’s losses in personnel and armored vehicles […]
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Wed 13 December 2023: Based on pre-pandemic data from 2019 in 40 European countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) has released new findings that show a worrying increase in “catastrophic health spending,” which is forcing many families into poverty. The WHO European Office in Copenhagen released a concerning report on Tuesday, coinciding with the United […]
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Tue 12 December 2023: Russia says that it has arrested a network of Ukrainian assassins targeting pro-Russian figures in the annexed Crimea peninsula. Moscow’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Monday that it has arrested 18 “agents and accomplices” of Ukraine’s special services. Several pro-Russian figures in Crimea and the occupied east of Ukraine have […]
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