Thu 31 August 2023: Washington, DC – X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has lifted a ban on political advertising, though it says it will still prohibit the promotion of false information. The move comes as the 2024 election campaign season in the United States kicks off. In a blog post on Tuesday, X laid out its […]
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Thu 31 August 2023: Pope Francis, announcing that he will issue a new document on the protection of nature, said on Wednesday he was doing so because a “terrible world war” against the environment was taking place. Speaking at his weekly general audience, Francis said the document, a followup to his landmark 2015 encyclical “Laudato […]
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Wed 30 August 2023: Think your friends would be interested? Share this story! Stargazers are in for a double treat this week: a blue supermoon with Saturn peeking from behind. Here is what to know about this rare celestial event: What is a blue supermoon? The term “supermoon” was coined in 1979 by astrologer Richard Nolle to […]
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Wed 30 August 2023: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said that the world with its different blocs and powers “will not be the same after the expansion of the BRICS group” during the recent South African summit. President da Silva, otherwise known simply as Lula, made his comment in a weekly video […]
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Wed 30 August 2023: Belgium has suspended receiving single, male asylum seekers, media reports said Wednesday, Anadolu Agency reports. Migration and Asylum Minister, Nicole de Moor, confirmed media reports that Fedasil, the agency that manages asylum reception sites, has been instructed to stop giving single men access to asylum reception and she said the focus would […]
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams announces a new NYPD initiative to support and facilitate the Islamic call to public prayer at regularly prescribed times each Friday and during the holy month of Ramadan, at City Hall on Tuesday, August 29, 2023. (Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office) Wed 30 August 2023: Mayor Eric Adams announced […]
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Wed 30 August 2023: Experts say impasse over contentious Canadian law should make media outlets rethink reliance on social media platforms. As fires raged in Canada’s vast Northwest Territories earlier this month, officials rushed to evacuate tens of thousands of people before the flames could reach the capital of Yellowknife. A citywide evacuation deadline loomed and ensuring […]
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Tue 29 August 2023: The Humans for Rights Network has identified an increasing number of cases in which child refugees who have arrived in the United Kingdom on small boats are being held in adult prisons alongside sex offenders. Several of these minors, particularly those from Sudan and South Sudan, appear to have been victims […]
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Tue 29 August 2023: Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian mercenary Wagner’s chief, has been buried privately at a funeral near St Petersburg, according to his press service. A “farewell ceremony” for Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in a plane crash last week, took place behind closed doors, his spokespeople said on Tuesday in a statement on […]
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Tue 29 August 2023: On Tuesday, the Kremlin declared that it is “not foreseen” that Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the funeral of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin. “The president’s presence is not foreseen. We don’t have information specifically about the funeral. The decision on this matter is made by relatives and friends, here we […]
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