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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Fri 18 August 2023: A neonatal nurse has been found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six more, making her the worst child serial killer in modern British history and raising urgent questions over whether her crimes could have been stopped. Lucy Letby, 33, was convicted of the “persistent, calculated and cold-blooded” […]
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Fri 18 August 2023: A container ship, named Joseph Schulte, which set sail from Ukraine’s Odesa port earlier this week, has reached the Istanbul Strait. It is the first vessel that departed from Odesa port after Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative last month. The Hong Kong-flagged vessel entered the Istanbul Strait through […]
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Fri 18 August 2023: At a congressional hearing on Thursday, a Brazilian hacker said that Jair Bolsonaro, who was president at the time, asked him to hack into the country’s electronic voting machines (EVM) ahead of the 2022 presidential race. To the parliamentary commission of inquiry, Walter Delgatti Neto made a claim without offering any […]
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Fr 18 August 2023: In the center of Canada’s Northwest Territories, a city beats with the urgency of its inhabitants fleeing the destructive fangs of fire as they race against an relentless clock. Yellowknife, the capital, is bracing itself against an oncoming wildfire, one of hundreds that have erupted in this vast northern area. With […]
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Fr 18 August 2023: Russian forces have destroyed Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow and its Black Sea Fleet, AFP reports, citing Russian officials. Russia’s defence ministry said its air force downed a Ukrainian drone over the capital at about 04:00 (0100 GMT) on Friday. “The UAV, after being exposed to air defence weapons, changed its flight […]
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Fr 18 August 2023: More than 3,000 people have fled their homes amid growing violence in neighbourhoods of Port-au-Prince, UN agency says. A surge in violence in parts of Haiti’s capital over the past week has pushed more than 3,000 people to flee their homes, including many who have been forced to seek shelter in […]
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Thu 17 August 2023: Turkish authorities warned Russian counterparts after an incident involving a cargo ship in the Black Sea that took place within international waters, the Turkish presidency has said. “After the (Russian) intervention, our interlocutors in the Russian Federation were warned appropriately to avoid such attempts, which escalate tensions in the Black Sea,” […]
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