Mon 12 June 2023: Thousands of fish washed ashore along the Texas Gulf Coast due to “a low dissolved oxygen event” in warm water, officials have said. Quintana Beach County Park officials said on Sunday that the species most impacted by this fish kill was the Gulf menhaden, adding that the pedestrian beach is mostly […]
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Mon 12 June 2023: The number of operational nuclear weapons rose slightly in 2022 as countries implemented long-term force modernisation and expansion plans, a leading conflict think-tank said on Monday, warning that the world was entering a dangerous phase. The estimated number of warheads in military stockpiles for potential use rose by 86 to 9,576, […]
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Sun 11 June 2023: Wagner soldiers will not sign any contracts with Russia’s defence ministry after it issued orders for all independent forces to do so by the end of June. Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu gave the directive on Saturday saying all “volunteer detachments” must sign contracts with his ministry by the end of the […]
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Sun 11 June 2023: Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been arrested as part of the ongoing investigation into the SNP’s funding and finances. A 52-year-old lady was brought into custody as a suspect and is being questioned by detectives, according to police. The arrest on Sunday was the third in the investigation, which has sent shockwaves through Scotland’s political system. Sturgeon’s husband, former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell, was arrested in April as part of the investigation. The former SNP leader, who stood down in March, was then arrested and questioned […]
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Sun 11 June 2023: Investigators in Germany are examining evidence suggesting a sabotage team used Poland as an operating base to blow up the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. The investigators reconstructed the two-week voyage of the Andromeda, a 50-foot (15-metre) yacht suspected of being involved in the sabotage […]
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Sun 11 June 2023: Members of Ottawa’s diverse Muslim community joined a group of people protesting certain teachings in schools, alongside parental rights advocate Chris Elston (Billboard Chris) and student activist Josh Alexander on Friday. The protest aimed to challenge narratives from activists on both sides, who had resorted to divisive labels such as “christo-fascists,” […]
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Sat 10 June 2023: The future micro-blogging network “sanely run” from Meta will use Instagram’s account system to automatically populate a user’s information. According to The Verge, Meta is in talks with prominent figures including Oprah Winfrey, the Dalai Lama, and DJ Slime about becoming early users of their Twitter alternative. The ‘ActivityPub’ decentralized social […]
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Sat 10 June 2023: Despite the fact that the US Equal Pay Act has been in effect for almost 60 years, there are still racial and gender wage gaps in the United States. As a result of the gender wage inequality, American women have paid a steep price. According to recent study by the progressive […]
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Sat 10 June 2023: UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak, has made hints that additional steps could be carried out to crack down on hidden charges used to increase prices paid by online customers. The Department for Business and Trade is looking at the issue of “drip pricing” to “get a sense of how widespread and […]
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Sat 10 June 2023: A number of claims and counterclaims are being made on the Ukraine-Russia conflict on the ground and online. While Independent Press takes utmost care to accurately report this developing news story, we cannot independently verify the authenticity of all statements, photos and videos. In the past day, Ukraine’s military conducted attacks […]
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