Sat 29 July 2023: The Australian government has called for the persecution of Julian Assange to halt. The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has responded by saying that the WikiLeaks founder is said to have “risked very serious harm to our national security”, The Guardian reported. Blinken acknowledged that the Australian government had brought […]
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Sat 29 July 2023: The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party agreed on Friday to join the European Identity and Democracy (ID) party, its ideologically aligned group on the European level. “The European Union is an undemocratic construct incapable of reform, the EU project has failed,” the former parliament member Roland Hartwig said at a […]
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Fri 28 July 2023: As announced at this year’s developer event Google I/O, the tech giant has started to roll out the “unknown tracker alerts” feature to Android 6.0+ users, which will help keep users safe from unwanted Bluetooth tracking. The feature will automatically notify Android users if an unknown Bluetooth device is travelling with […]
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Sat 29 July 2023: President Joe Biden has signed an executive order giving decisions on the prosecution of serious military crimes, including sexual assault, to independent military lawyers, taking that power away from victims’ commanders. The order on Friday formally implements legislation passed by Congress in 2022 aimed at strengthening protections for servicemembers, who were often […]
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Sat 29 July 2023: President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia and the African leaders attending a summit in Saint Petersburg had agreed to promote a multipolar world order. Participants signed a joint declaration that called for “the establishment of a more just, balanced and stable multipolar world order, firmly opposing all types of international […]
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Fri 28 July 2023: Headlines and photographs of the singer Sinéad O’Connor told us that the iconic star had died. What followed have been well-deserved eulogies, despite some glaring omissions. Sinéad was beautiful, brave and talented, and an uncompromising rebel who often railed against the Establishment and has never been forgiven by some for ripping […]
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Fri 28 July 2023: A fossil of a cat-sized mammal called Repenomamus Robustus, which lived during the Cretaceous period and attacked a plant-eating dinosaur called Psittacosaurus, which was three times its size, was discovered. Both species died during the encounter, and their bones have remained undisturbed in the fossil till today. Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis-Repenomamus robustus pair (WZSSM […]
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Thu 27 July 2023: Britain has been unlawfully accommodating unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in hotels on a “systematic and routine” basis for more than a year, London’s High Court has ruled. Judge Martin Chamberlain on Thursday upheld a legal challenge brought by Every Child Protected Against Trafficking (ECPAT) over the accommodation of unaccompanied children seeking asylum, […]
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Thu 27 July 2023: The British Medical Association said on Wednesday that junior doctors in England will go on strike for four days next month, Anadolu Agency reported. This will be the fifth round of junior doctors striking over the pay dispute with the government. The walkout will take place from August 11 to 15. […]
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Thu 27 July 2023: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday was questioned in parliament over delays in paying victims compensation money for contaminated blood supplies. At the Infected Blood Inquiry, Sunak promised to pay compensation to victims of the “appalling” contaminated blood scandal “as swiftly as possible” following their decades of suffering. The inquiry […]
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