Erdogan and his wife Emine Erdogan cast their ballots (Left) Kilicdaroglu and his wife Selvi Kilicdaroglu cast their ballots (Right) Sun 28 May 2023: Incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his main challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu have cast their votes in Istanbul and Ankara respectively. Turks are voting in a run-off to elect a president […]
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Sun 28 May 2023: It is unclear why 100-year-old Henry Kissinger has been elevated by Western intelligentsia to serve the role of the visionary in how the West should behave in response to the Russia-Ukraine war. But does the centenarian politician have the answers? Every major global conflict that involved the US and its NATO […]
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Sat 27 May 2023: A boat carrying around 500 migrants that set off from Libyan coasts has been lost in the central Mediterranean, Alarm Phone, a group that picks up calls from refugee vessels in distress, revealed on Friday. The group shared that the boat, which disappeared on Wednesday morning, was carrying at least one […]
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Sat 27 May 2023: Small ethnic Serb groups in northern Kosovo have fought with police while attempting to barricade municipal building entrances to keep newly elected officials from entering. On Friday, many vehicles were set on fire and the police used tear gas. Aleksandar Vucic, the president of Serbia, put the army on a “higher […]
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Sat 27 May 2023: In the midst of ongoing negotiations to extend the debt ceiling, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen informed Republican House leaders on Friday that the US will run out of money to pay its financial obligations by June 5. The deadline is four days later than previous Treasury Department estimates, and Yellen told […]
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Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (L) with Britain’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman (Photo: Phil Noble/AFP) Fri 26 May 2023: I arrived in the United Kingdom in 2010 on a rubber dinghy. If this bill was in place then, I might not be alive today. On May 16, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak addressed a Council […]
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Fri 26 May 2023: The right thing to do as chief constable, according to Sir Iain Livingstone, is to “clearly state that institutional racism, sexism, misogyny, and discrimination exist” within the police department. Speaking at a meeting of the Scottish Police Authority on Thursday, Livingstone said prejudice and bad behavior within the police was “rightly […]
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink video shows monkey playing video gams with its brain. Apr 11, 2021 Fri 26 May 2023: Elon Musk’s neurotech company, Neuralink, announced Thursday that it has gained Food and Drug Administration approval to undertake its first in-human clinical study. Neuralink is developing the Link, a brain implant that will allow individuals […]
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Fri 26 May 2023: On the third anniversary of George Floyd’s passing while in police custody, President Joe Biden made a statement on Thursday in which he urged continued police reform around the country. “George Floyd’s murder exposed for many what Black and Brown communities have long known and experienced – that we must make […]
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Fri 26 May 2023: Possible lunar debris from a wrecked Japanese lunar lander has been found, according to NASA. The Hakuto-R Mission 1 crash site was perhaps visible in photographs posted by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Satellite on its website on Tuesday. The spacecraft was launched in December of last year, but an anomaly occurred, resulting […]
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