Tue 04 October 2022: Elon Musk, a controversial billionaire, recently conducted a poll on Twitter asking users to comment on a proposal to end the conflict in Ukraine. This poll drew a barrage of criticism, including that of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The highly controversial “peace” proposal put forth by the businessman behind Tesla Inc. and […]
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Mon 03 October 2022: Russians escape the country in the wake of Putin’s military mobilisation. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to call up 300,000 military reservists to join the war in Ukraine has created chaos in the country. While men are being summoned to the front lines to fight in the war on short notice, […]
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Mon 03 October 2022: Kim Kardashian has agreed to pay $1.26 million to settle charges brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that she promoted a cryptocurrency on Instagram while being paid $250,000 to do so. The reality TV star and entrepreneur has agreed to help the SEC’s ongoing investigation, the agency announced […]
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Mon 03 October 2022: This year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Swedish scientist Svante Paabo for his discoveries on human evolution. Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Nobel Committee, announced the winner Monday at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Paabo has spearheaded research comparing the genome of modern humans and […]
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Mon 03 October 2022: The latest setback to President Vladimir Putin’s recruitment of 300,000 servicemen is the sending home of thousands of Russians who had been mobilized for military service in Ukraine. The governor of the far eastern Russian region of Khabarovsk, Mikhail Degtyarev, reported that several thousand men had shown up for enlistment in […]
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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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