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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Tue 20 September 2022: On Monday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a warning that global inequities in educational access and quality are quickly turning into the “great divider.” Roughly 70% of 10 year-olds in poorer nations are unable to read basic texts, and in developed countries “education systems often entrench rather than reduce inequality, reproducing […]
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Mon 19 September 2022: Russia revealed on Monday that it is making efforts to speed up the delivery of visas to foreign nationals, Anladolu Agency reported. Russian consulates are updating the relevant digital tools, including a special website for providing unified electronic visas to foreign nationals, according to a statement from the Foreign Ministry. By […]
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Mon 20 September 2022: A report by Lancet medical journal’s COVID-19 commission has spelt out “massive failures” in the international response to the pandemic, laying out recommendations to better prepare for future health emergencies. In its report released on Wednesday, the commission warned that governments “failed to adhere to basic norms of institutional rationality and […]
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Mon 20 September 2022: British Defence Ministry said in its daily intelligence on Twitter, that Russia has highly likely lost at least four combat jets in Ukraine within the last 10 days, taking its attrition to about 55 since the beginning of its invasion on February 24, Reuters reported. There is a realistic possibility that […]
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Mon 20 September 2022: Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral has begun at Westminster Abbey following the procession of her coffin led by royal family members, including King Charles III. The British capital London is hosting the biggest funeral ceremony globally in decades as the queen is being laid to rest on Monday, 10 days after her […]
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Mon 19 September 2022: US President Joe Biden says he told Chinese President Xi Jinping that violating sanctions against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine would be a “gigantic mistake.” The US president stated that he spoke with Xi following the Chinese leader’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the Winter Olympics in February. […]
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Sun 18 September 2022: Thousands of jobs are already in danger from artificial intelligence worldwide. A Chinese metaverse corporation recently appointed a robot as its CEO, which has people intrigued and a little scared. Ms. Tang Yu, an artificial intelligence-powered virtual humanoid robot, has been named the rotating CEO of Fujian NetDragon Websoft. The company, […]
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Sun 18 September 2022: Alain Robert, the free climber dubbed the “French Spiderman”, scaled a 48-storey skyscraper in Paris on Saturday, fulfilling a goal he had set for himself once he reached the age of 60. Dressed in red, Robert raised his arms aloft as he reached the top of the 187-metre (613-foot) Tour TotalEnergies building, […]
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