Sacked: Curator Peter Higgs had worked at museum for 35 years. Sun 20 August 2023: Treasures stolen from the British Museum are being auctioned off online for as little as $50, according to The Telegraph newspaper. The British Museum said Wednesday that it fired a staff member and notified police after discovering that items […]
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Sun 20 August 2023: Volodymyr Zelenskiy has vowed to hit back after seven people including a six-year-old girl were killed and 144 wounded in a Russian missile strike on a central square in the historic northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Saturday. The Ukrainian president said: “I am sure our soldiers will give a response to Russia for this […]
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Sat 19 August 2023: Canada’s transport minister called on Meta on Friday to lift the ban on domestic news so that Canadians can share developments regarding the ongoing wildfires in the west. Meta started blocking news on its Facebook and Instagram platforms for all users in Canada this month in response to a new law requiring […]
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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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