Sun 27 August 2023: The death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner paramilitary group, following a plane crash on Wednesday has been confirmed by formal genetic analysis, Russia’s Investigative Committee has said. “According to their results, the identities of all 10 victims were established, they correspond to the list stated in the flight list,” […]
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Sat 26 August 2023: A second bulk cargo ship has left Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odessa despite Russia’s naval blockade and unilateral decision in July to cancel an international deal allowing grain exports. The ship, now named Primus and sailing under a Liberian flag, left port on Saturday morning, according to ship tracker MarineTraffic. […]
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Sat 26 August 2023: In seeking to understand the crimes of Lucy Letby, the neonatal nurse who murdered seven babies in her care, a fixation about how “ordinary” she appears to be has emerged. At times like this, we seek answers, which perhaps explains the vague sense that understanding this apparent inconsistency can teach us […]
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Sat 26 August 2023: The New York Times, CNN, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) are just a few of the prestigious media outlets that have blocked Microsoft-backed OpenAI from using their content to train its AI models. The NYT banned OpenAI’s web crawler, so the Sam Altman-led business is unable to use the newspaper’s […]
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Fri 25 August 2023: August 23 will be remembered as the hottest day in the history of Milan, or at least since the Milan Brera station records temperature data, i.e. since 1763: with an average daily temperature of 33 °C, Wednesday 23 August the Milan Brera station exceeded its previous record of 32.8 °C, recorded […]
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Fri 25 August 2023: The Kremlin has dismissed rumours it had requested the assassination of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who reportedly died in a plane crash on Wednesday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters during a briefing,”There is a lot of speculation around the plane crash and the tragic death of the passengers, including Yevgeny […]
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Fri 25 August 2023: Former United States President Donald Trump has returned to the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, with a post showing his mug shot from his booking at Fulton County Jail in Georgia earlier in the day. Trump reclaimed direct access on Thursday to the public on the platform that banned him following the […]
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Thu 24 August 2023: One in three private renters have been forced to borrow money to pay their rent in the space of a month, shocking new figures showed. Over two million people have turned to credit cards, overdrafts, family members or even payday loans to meet landlords’ demands, The Independent reported. The finding comes […]
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Thu 24 August 2023: Pro-Kremlin television station Tsargrad TV has reported, citing its own sources, that Prigozhin’s body has been provisionally identified, but that DNA analysis was still pending, according to the DPA news agency. The crash, which remains shrouded in mystery, has ignited speculation about how Prigozhin, an outspoken critic of top Russian defence […]
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Wed 23 August 2023: The Canadian government, under pressure over the rising cost of housing, could consider capping foreign student visas, which have rocketed in recent years, new Housing Minister Sean Fraser said on Monday. Official data show there were more than 800,000 foreign students with active visas in 2022, up from 275,000 in 2012. […]
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