Wed 21 September 2022: The Chinese short-form video app is now a major news source for its users. In the US, 33% of TikTok users regularly get their news from the short-form video app, up from 22% in 2020. As other major social media platforms experience a decline in regular news consumption on their platforms, […]
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Wed 21 September 2022: Wednesday saw the first Russian mobilization since World War Two, as President Vladimir Putin issued a warning to the West that if it continued its “nuclear blackmail,” Moscow would retaliate with the full force of its vast arsenal. “If the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we use all available means to […]
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Wed 21 September 2022: More than 200 NGOs issued a dire warning on Tuesday, estimating that one person dies of hunger every four seconds, and urging swift international action to “end the spiraling global hunger crisis.” 238 organizations from 75 countries, including Oxfam, Save the Children, and Plan International, expressed outrage over the rising rates […]
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Tue 20 September 2022: Steps that Turkish lenders, Isbank and Denizbank, took to suspend the use of Russian payment system, MIR, make a lot of sense, a senior US administration official said on Tuesday, and said the United States expects more banks will cut off MIR over sanctions risk, Reuters reports. Isbank and Denizbank, on Monday, announced separately they had suspended the use […]
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Tue 20 September 2022: On Tuesday, Russian lawmakers approved legislation that will make soldiers who desert or surrender in battle subject to harsher punishments. Under the amendments endorsed by the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament, there will be a 10-year prison sentence for desertion, failure to report for military service, and surrender. […]
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Tue 20 September 2022: Tuesday saw the bodies of 95 more Armenian soldiers who were killed in border clashes that Azerbaijan claims the Armenian army “provocation” to start, Anadolu Agency reported. According to a written statement by the State Commission for Prisoners of War, Hostages, and Missing Persons of Azerbaijan, the bodies were transferred to […]
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Tue 20 September 2022: People in the United States are less likely to trust their government than most people realize, and surrounding institutions, including the media, are doing little to restore that trust, reported The Hill on Sunday. “The general population in the United States currently perceives there to be in a democratic downturn; people […]
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Tue 20 September 2022: Saudi Arabia will fund a mosque in Cuba serving the island’s Muslim community, according to Havana’s envoy to Saudi Arabia. In an interview broadcast on Saudi state TV, Vladimir Gonzalez, said: “Because of this donation from the Saudi side, today we can say that we’re building in Havana the first mosque in […]
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Tue 20 September 2022: Britain’s culture minister Michelle Donelan, said on Tuesday that 250,000 mourners filed past Queen Elizabeth’s coffin at Westminster Hall in London during her lying-in-state, Reuters reported. “It’s approximately around the 250,000 mark. We’re just crunching those final numbers,” Donelan told Times radio. The full figures would be released in due course, […]
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Tue 20 September 2022: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan has stated that he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin is seeking an end to the war he started in Ukraine, and that a “significant step” will be taken. He said his impression from recent talks with Vladimir Putin was that he wanted to “end this as soon as […]
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