Thu 06 July 2023: Humza Yousaf took over the Scottish ruling party following the shock resignation of former leader Nicola Sturgeon. Glasgow, Scotland – He came to power as a trailblazer – but political goodwill has been in short supply for Scotland’s first minister, Humza Yousaf. Yousaf, who became the first Muslim leader of any Western democracy […]
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Wed 05 July 2023: More than 185,000 people have joined the Russian armed forces in 2023, and some 109,000 of them are in reserve, Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday, citing data form the Defense Ministry. “According to the Defense Ministry, from January 1 this year to July 4, more than 185,000 […]
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Wed 05 July 2023: The “unknown item” that forced a brief evacuation of the White House Sunday night and drew a Hazmat team from Washington, DC, Fire and EMS to the executive mansion initially tested positive for cocaine, according to a dispatch call made that evening. During a radio communication at 8:49 p.m. on Sunday, […]
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Wed 05 July 2023: In an effort to prevent technology from disturbing teaching, the Netherlands said on Tuesday that it will ban cell phones from classrooms. The Dutch government has announced that from the start of the following school year, mobile phones, tablets, and smartwatches would not be permitted in the classroom. The ban has […]
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Wed 05 July 2023: Hundreds of Srebrenica genocide victims are still missing despite 28 years have passed since the bloody massacre in the eastern Bosnian town, Bosnia’s Missing Persons Institute told Anadolu. Mujo Hadziomerovic, the head of institute, said that 12,469 bone remains were dug out during mass grave excavations after the 1995 genocide in […]
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Wed 05 July 2023: The Russian rouble weakened on Wednesday, heading back towards the 90 mark against the dollar, with demand for foreign currency outweighing supply and as last month’s domestic political turmoil keeps risk appetite low. At 0718 GMT, the rouble was 0.8% weaker against the dollar at 89.92, after hitting a more than […]
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Wed 05 July 2023: French Senate on Tuesday introduced a bill that says social media companies will have to deliver identity information of platform users and handle removal or blocking requests by the French government in two hours at most in cases of highly sensitive content spreading and encouraging “violence.” With the new bill, Paris […]
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Wed 05 July 2023: Special forces commanders in the UK allegedly destroyed computer data to hide potential evidence of the killing of unarmed Afghan civilians, The Times reported. It is alleged that ahead of a visit by the Royal Military Police to special forces headquarters in London as part of a war crimes investigation, authorities […]
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Wed 05 July 2023: Active-duty US soldiers committed suicide at a rate of more than one per day in the first quarter of this year, up 25% from the same period in 2022, according to a recent Pentagon report. Active-duty suicides rose to 94 in the January-March period from 75 in the same quarter a […]
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Tue 04 July 2023: The uncontrolled accumulation of debt by Western countries is increasing the risk of a new global financial crisis, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Tuesday. Addressing a virtual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) via videolink from Moscow, the Russian leader cited global threats that could increase “conflict potential” in the […]
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