Fri 23 June 2023: Moscow’s forces are retreating in Ukraine’s east and south following Kyiv’s counteroffensive, the head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group said Friday. The comments contradict recent assessments by Russian President Vladimir Putin that Ukraine was suffering “catastrophic” losses and that there was a lull in fighting. “On the ground now … the […]
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Fri 23 June 2023: Users of Facebook and Instagram in Canada will be unable to access Canadian news after the country passed legislation mandating the digital giants to pay for such content. “Exciting news! (No pun intended),” Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez tweeted after the bill passed a final hurdle in the Senate on its way […]
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Clockwise from top left: Shahzada Dawood and son Sulaiman, Hamish Harding, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Stockton Rush, were onboard the Titan. Thu 22 June 2023: All five people aboard the Titan submersible are believed to be dead, and debris discovered in the search area for the missing vessel was consistent with a “catastrophic implosion,” the U.S. […]
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Thu 22 June 2023: Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of Russia’s mercenary Wagner group, added fuel to his feud with the top brass on Thursday, accusing them of lying to Vladimir Putin and the Russian people about the scale of Russian losses and setbacks in Ukraine. Prigozhin, whose private militia spearheaded the Russian capture of the Ukrainian city […]
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Thu 22 June 2023: Amid Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States, the city of New York saw trucks with screens beckoning US President Joe Biden to ask the Indian PM tough questions about happenings in India. An image shared on Twitter showed numerous trucks that had messages written out for Biden. “Hey […]
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Thu 22 June 2023: Supermarkets are increasingly pricing budget items at £1.25 rather than £1 as retailers balance attempts to draw in shoppers through bargain deals with stubbornly high grocery inflation. The price point is now frequently the joint second-most popular price tag for a grocery item, alongside £2 and behind £1, according to the […]
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Thu 22 June 2023: Two companies, Upside Foods and Good Meat, said on Wednesday they have received final US Department of Agriculture (USDA) approval to sell lab-grown meat, paving the way for the nation’s first-ever sales of the product. The companies are the first to complete a multi-step approval process for so-called cultivated meat, which […]
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Thu 22 June 2023: Twitter has been given 28 days to remove “toxicity and hate” from its platform or face a fine from Australia’s internet safety agency. Since Elon Musk, one of the richest people in the world and a self-described “free speech absolutist,” gained control of it last year, Twitter has emerged as the […]
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Thu 22 June 2023: International migration has become a pressing issue on the international agenda, with 281 million people living outside their country or region of birth in 2020, accounting for 3.6% of the global population, according to data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Migration, one of the enduring issues in […]
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Wed 21 June 2023: In a new escalation of attacks on the occupied Palestinian area, an Israeli drone strike hit a car in the northern West Bank. According to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, three individuals were killed in the strike late Wednesday. According to a video posted on social media, the air raid […]
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