Tue 13 June 2023: France accused Russia on Tuesday of leading a disinformation campaign against the country, claiming that manipulation would have no effect on its support for Ukraine, Anadolu Agency reported. French Foreign Ministry spokesperson Anne-Claire Legendre said at a news conference that “fake internet pages impersonating [French] media outlets and government websites, as […]
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Tue 13 June 2023: India, Nigeria and Turkey had threatened to shut Twitter down unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts, co-founder Jack Dorsey has alleged. Dorsey, who quit as Twitter CEO in 2021, said on Monday that India threatened the company with a shutdown and raids on employees if it did not comply […]
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Tue 13 June 2023: Currently, there are 431 wildfires burning across Canada, 208 of which are out of control, Minister for Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair said on Monday. “Across the country, there are currently 431 wildfires burning, 208 of which are determined to be out of control,” Blair said at a press conference. Blair added […]
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An image shows Iranian drone transfer to Russia, as evidence of new Russian-Iran cooperation, in this handout acquired June 9, 2023. White House/Handout via REUTERS Tue 13 June 2023: UK’s defence ministry says “Russia has likely moved from receiving small deliveries of Iranian OWA-UAVs [one-way attack unmanned aerial vehicles] by air transport, to larger consignments by […]
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Tue 13 June 2023: A Sweden appeals court of on Monday upheld a lower court striking down a ban on Quran burning, saying police had no legal grounds to block two Quran burning protests earlier this year. In a statement, the court said it upheld an administrative court ruling overturning a police decision to stop […]
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Tue 13 June 2023: Following a petition by a plaintiff’s lawyer, the first court hearing in Germany on the alleged side effects of BioNTech’s COVID vaccine was postponed on Monday, Anadolu Agency reported. According to a representative for the Hamburg Regional Court, the plaintiff’s counsel requested that the court be heard by a panel of […]
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Tue 13 June 2023: Almost two million Britons skip meals for a whole day three times a month due to the rising cost of living, research suggested. A YouGov poll of more than 6,000 people also found 9.6 million Britons live in households classed as in “serious financial difficulties”, PA news agency reported. Among this […]
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Mon 12 June 2023: Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi died on Monday at the age of 86 at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan, the press office of his political party Forza Italia confirmed. He was admitted to hospital on Friday for scheduled health check-ups related to his chronic leukemia, according to the hospital. […]
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Mon 12 June 2023: The paramilitary Akhmat group of Chechen special forces, who are waging the Kremlin’s attack close to the town of Mariinka in the Donetsk area of eastern Ukraine, and the Russian defense ministry have signed a contract. The signing followed an order that all “volunteer units” should sign contracts by 1 July […]
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Ukrainian servicemen of the 35th Separate Brigade of Marines pose for a photograph with the Ukrainian flag in the liberated village of Storozheve, in Dontesk region, Ukraine, in the still image taken from a social media video released on June 12, 2023. Photograph: 35th Separate Brigade of Marines/Reuters A number of claims and counterclaims are being […]
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