Sat 15 July 2023: For the first time in 63 years, Hollywood actors joined screenwriters on picket lines on Friday in what has become Tinseltown’s biggest labour fight in decades. Actors and writers had been negotiating with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) for higher streaming-era pay and curbs on the use of artificial intelligence. Ted Lasso star Jason […]
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Sat 15 July 2023: Europe is currently experiencing a severe and devastating heat wave that might bring about record-breaking temperatures and raise severe concerns about the effects on people’s health, especially as the region prepares to receive a large inflow of tourists. Italy on Friday put over 15 cities on red alert due to expected […]
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Sat 15 July 2023: Two children are drown on average per day while trying to cross Central Mediterranean due to the “absence of safe and legal routes,” the UN Children’s Agency, UNICEF, said on Friday. The number of children that have lost their lives while attempting to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe has doubled […]
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Sat 15 July 2023: Russian lawmakers on Friday passed a bill prohibiting gender change. The members of Russia’s lower chamber of parliament, the State Duma, unanimously voted in favor of approving the bill at a plenary session in Moscow. The bill now goes for approval to the upper chamber of the parliament, the Federation Council, […]
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Fri 14 July 2023: Turkiye and Qatar will launch a joint investment for semiconductor production, the Turkish Industry and Technology Minister said on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. “Qatar decided to move its investment for producing 65-nanometer chips to Turkiye. It is projected to be worth over $60 million,” Mehmet Fatih Kacir said at a news conference in […]
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Fri 14 July 2023: Days after their failed mutiny, Russian President Vladimir Putin allegedly gave the Wagner mercenaries the chance to continue fighting for the army in a meeting, but the group’s leader Yevgeny Prigozhin refused his offer. Interviewed by the Russian daily Kommersant on Thursday, Putin said his offer was one of several he […]
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Fri 14 July 2023: After the Friday prayer, President Recep Tayyip Erdoan addressed the media in Istanbul and called the European Union and Greece to take constructive action, Anadolu Agency reported. “We talked to the leaders of all EU member countries, with whom I had meetings in Vilnius,” Erdoğan said. “We said that we want […]
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Fri 14 July 2023: U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday said the United States was unsure where Prigozhin was but quipped that the mercenary chief could be poisoned. “If I were he, I’d be careful what I ate. I’d be keeping my eye on my menu,” Biden said, according to White House transcript. “But all […]
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Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage. Photograph: AFP/Getty/Guardian Design Fri 14 July 2023: If you live in the Middle East, Asia or Africa you’ve probably never heard of Nigel Farage; if so, count yourself lucky. He is a prime example of white privilege; a truly obnoxious individual whose hateful words whip up racism across Britain. […]
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Fri 14 July 2023: The Pentagon announced on Thursday that Ukraine has received cluster bombs from the US and its allies to support its military counteroffensive against Russia, Anadolu Agency reported. The US-supplied munitions, which were announced earlier this month as part of a $800 million arms package, are already in Ukraine, according to Lt. […]
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