Sat 08 October 2022: A poll released on Saturday revealed that the opposition Labour Party in Britain continues to enjoy a significant lead over the Conservative Party of Prime Minister Liz Truss, which has struggled to recover since its annual conference this week, Reuters reported. The YouGov poll, conducted on Thursday and Friday for The […]
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Sat 08 October 2022: Brazil’s Amazon region has experienced record-breaking deforestation in September, continuing a trend that has gotten worse under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. In September, 1,455 square kilometers (562 square miles) of rainforest were cleared, according to satellite data from INPE, a Brazilian space research organization. That surpasses the September 2019 record in […]
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Sat 08 October 2022: The Kerch bridge from Russia to Crimea – a hated symbol of the Kremlin’s occupation of the southern Ukrainian peninsular – has been hit by a massive explosion on the span that carries railway traffic. The Kerch Bridge — a pair of parallel bridges, one road and one railroad — is a key […]
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Sat 08 October 2022: As part of its efforts to preserve the shared historical and cultural heritage of the empire’s 550-year legacy in the region, Turkey’s government-run aid organization has restored more than 80 Ottoman-era buildings in the Balkans, Anandolu Agency reported. The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency has long been interested in the mosques, […]
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Fri 07 October 2022: Global food prices fell for the sixth month in a row in September, led by lower vegetable oil prices, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The FAO food price index, which averaged 136.3 points last month, fell 1.1%, or 1.5 points, from the previous month. The FAO food […]
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Fri 07 October 2022: Most victims of religious hate crimes in England and Wales were Muslims and Jews in the year to March 2022, according to official government data. The Home Office reported on Thursday that the overall number of hate crimes rose 26 percent from 2021 until 2022, to 155,841. Some 8,307 were religious hate […]
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Thu 06 October 2022: On Thursday, Kevin Spacey appeared in Manhattan court to represent himself in a civil case brought by actor Anthony Rapp. As they entered the federal courthouse, neither Spacey nor Rapp engaged in conversation with the media. After a party at Spacey’s Manhattan apartment in 1986, Rapp claimed in 2017 that Spacey […]
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Thu 06 October 2022: Authorities in Mexico confirmed on Thursday that a shooting in the municipality of San Miguel Totolapan, in the state of Guerrero on Mexico’s southwest coast, resulted in at least 20 fatalities, Anandolu Agency reported. The deaths of Conrado Mendoza, the mayor of Totolapan, and his father were confirmed by the undersecretary […]
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Thu 06 October 2022: On Wednesday, former Russian TV editor Marina Ovsyannikova claimed to have escaped from house arrest. Marina worked for Russian state television’s Channel One and became famous for denouncing the war in Ukraine during a newscast. “I consider myself completely innocent, and since our state refuses to comply with its own laws, […]
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Thu 06 October 2022: Intelligence agencies in the United States believe parts of the Ukrainian government authorised the car bomb attack near Moscow in August that killed Darya Dugina, the daughter of a prominent Russian nationalist, according to a report in the New York Times. The assessment of alleged Ukrainian complicity was shared within the […]
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