Fri 15 August 2025: The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the most popular party in the country, according to a striking new poll published Tuesday. If a national election were now held, 26 percent of Germans would vote for the AfD, according to a poll carried out by the Forsa Institute for Social […]
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Thu 14 August 2025: A meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump will begin at 11.30 am local time in Alaska on Friday with a one-on-one conversation accompanied by interpreters, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said. The meeting will be held at Elmendorf-Richardson Air Force Base in Alaska, Ushakov told reporters in Moscow on Thursday. “It will all begin […]
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Inverclyde Islamic Centre. Thu 14 August 2025: A mosque in Scotland has increased security measures after a far-right teenager who pretended to be a Muslim admitted to plotting a mass-casualty attack on worshippers. The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested last year after police uncovered his plan to lock worshippers […]
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Thu 14 August 2025: Russia’s communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, announced on Wednesday that it partially restricts calls in messengers Telegram and WhatsApp “to counter criminals.” The watchdog clarified in a statement that only the calling function has been restricted, while all other features of the messenger remain fully operational. “We inform you that, in accordance with materials provided by law enforcement […]
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Thu 14 August 2025: A new report from York University’s Islamophobia Research Hub has exposed a dramatic rise in hate incidents targeting Muslim, Palestinian and Arab communities across Canada since October 7, 2023. Titled “Documenting the ‘Palestine Exception’”, the report, authored by Dr. Nadia Hasan, reveals a “sharp and dangerous” spike of up to 1,800% in Islamophobic […]
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Wed 13 August 2025: The population of England and Wales is estimated to have jumped by more than 700,000 in the year to June 2024, the second largest annual numerical increase in over 75 years, figures show. Almost all of this rise was due to international migration, with natural change – more births than deaths – accounting for only a […]
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Mon 11 August 2025: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Monday signed a decree on providing Kyiv with an additional $2 million in humanitarian aid, as the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war nears three and a half years. The document, shared on the website of Azerbaijan’s presidency, decrees the allocation of the funds to the Energy Ministry for […]
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Mon 11 August 2025: President Donald Trump said Sunday that homeless people must be moved “far” from Washington, after days of musing about taking federal control of the US capital, where he has falsely suggested crime is rising. The Republican billionaire has announced a press conference for Monday in which he is expected to reveal his plans […]
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Mon 11 August 2025: The acting chief of US space agency NASA is reportedly set to unveil a directive this week to build a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030, in a bid to boost US space dominance amid growing competition from China and Russia. According to internal documents obtained by Politico, NASA will seek proposals from private industry […]
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Sun 10 August 2025: New research showed that Britain’s King George IV, who ruled for a decade until 1830, personally profited from enslaved labour on Grenadian plantations, a finding that experts say heightens pressure on the monarchy to confront its historical links to slavery. Independent scholar Desirée Baptiste uncovered a 1823-24 document at the National […]
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