Thu 13 July 2023: Assessment of Ukraine’s counteroffensive suggests it has retaken 253sq km (98sq miles) of its territory since June. Ukraine’s counteroffensive slowed down visibly in the 72nd week of the war because of entrenched Russian defences as NATO allies pledged more heavy weaponry for the fight. That assessment was given by Ukrainian President […]
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Wed 12 July 2023: In a period of great malaise in the West, the Russian president has given the military alliance new meaning, mission and drive. It feels like we are worlds away from the time when French President Emmanuel Macron declared NATO “brain dead” on the eve of its London summit in 2019. Since then, the […]
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Wed 12 July 2023: The high temperatures in Spain continued on Tuesday as a result of the second heat wave and are expected to last through Thursday in the south, according to the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET). The Iberian Peninsula is experiencing one of the hottest weeks of the year as a result of a […]
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Wed 12 July 2023: Military assistance from NATO to Ukraine will bring the world closer to World War III, Russia’s former president has claimed. “The completely crazy West could not come up with anything else. Predictability of the highest level … In fact, it’s a dead end. World War III is getting closer,” Dmitry Medvedev, […]
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Wed 12 July 2023: A Canadian court has ruled that the “thumbs-up” emoji is just as valid as a signature, arguing that courts need to adapt to the “new reality” of how people communicate. Judge TJ Keene of the King’s Bench for Saskatchewan ordered a farmer to pay $61,442 for an unfulfilled contract. “I agree that this […]
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Wed 12 July 2023: The unemployment rate for African Americans jumped for a second straight month in June as workers left the workforce amid early signs of a cooling labor market in the United States, according to a recent Bloomberg report. “That cooling has been uneven: the number of unemployed African Americans has increased by […]
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Wed 12 July 2023: The average two-year fixed mortgage rate in the United Kingdom (UK) increased to 6.66 percent on Tuesday, reaching its highest point since August 2008, data provider Moneyfacts said. The recent rise in mortgage rates was due to volatile swap rates, Moneyfacts added. “Much of this is driven by recent inflation figures, […]
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Tue 11 July 2023: The production of ammunition in Russia doubled in 2022, and increased more than 10 times in 2023, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday. “In 2023, due to the expansion of production capacities… in 2023 we have increased the number of ammunition produced by our industry by more than 10 […]
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Tue 11 July 2023: A former CNN journalist is taking legal action against the network, alleging unfair termination and racial discrimination following an incident in Israel that resulted in what she describes as an “invisible disability.” Saima Mohsin, aged 46, was reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Jerusalem in 2014 when her cameraman accidentally ran […]
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Tue 11 July 2023: A new investigation by the Guardian and others has found that attempts by the Greek coastguard in June to tow a boat carrying roughly 750 refugees which capsized leaving only 104 survivors may have caused the vessel to sink. Most of the passengers were from Egypt, Syria, Palestine and Pakistan. Nine of the survivors have been […]
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