Mon 03 October 2022: For the first time since the pandemic, the Spanish city of Tarragona has held its famous human pyramid competition, with teams trying to build towers of up to 10 levels for the title of best “castells.” The popular event normally takes place every two years in the Mediterranean city’s former bull […]
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Mon 03 October 2022: After winning the first round of voting in Brazil’s presidential election, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will face incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro in the second round. Left-wing former president Lula came in at 47.97%, while right-wing Bolsonaro received 43.60%, the electoral office announced Sunday. The second-round vote, extending what has been a tense […]
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Mon 03 October 2022: UK Prime Minister Liz Truss has dropped a controversial plan to abolish the top rate of income tax after the proposal angered backbench MPs and sent the British pound to record lows. “We get it, and we have listened,” Truss said in a statement posted on Twitter on Monday. “The abolition […]
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Sun 02 October 2022: At the Prosecutor General’s Office’s request, Russia has restricted access to the music streaming service Soundcloud over allegedly false information about the conflict in Ukraine, the media watchdog Roskomnadzor said on Sunday. According to the report, details about Russian attacks on the neighboring country’s civilian population and Russian soldiers’ civilian casualties […]
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Sun 02 October 2022: Pope Francis said he is haunted by “rivers of blood and tears” and has made a direct appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin to halt the “spiral of violence and death” in Ukraine. In a speech devoted to Ukraine in St. Peter’s Square, the head of the Catholic Church also denounced […]
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Sun 02 October 2022: The US suicide rate rose in 2021, particularly among young men, according to official data out Friday — an increase that ends a two-year-decline. The number of suicides rose from around 46,000 in 2020 to 47,650 in 2021, according to preliminary figures released by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention […]
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Sun 02 October 2022: Netflix, a well-known provider of online video streaming services that has also entered the gaming industry, is establishing an internal game studio in Helsinki, Finland. According to Engadget, the platform’s game studio aims to produce “world-class” original games free of advertisements and in-app purchases. Alumnus of Zynga and EA Marko Lastikka […]
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Sun 02 October 2022: In an effort to reassure her party and the general public, British Prime Minister Liz Truss said on Sunday that she should have done more to “lay the ground” better in order to try to minimize the market reaction, which saw the pound hit record lows and government borrowing costs soar. […]
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Observers are deployed throughout the country to assess the elections. Sun 02 October 2022: Bosnia and Herzegovina citizens head to the polls Sunday to choose lawmakers at the canton, entity, and national levels, as well as the three members of the Presidential Council. More than 5,900 ballot boxes across the country open at 7 a.m. local time (0500GMT) […]
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Sun 02 October 2022: According to British military intelligence, Russia’s forces are believed to have sustained significant losses as they withdrew from Lyman, a strategically significant town in eastern Ukraine. The British Defence Ministry’s daily brief stated on Sunday that the town in the Donetsk region was “likely being defended by undermanned elements of Russia’s […]
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