Tue 23 August 2022: The UN children’s agency on Monday said that nearly 1,000 children were either killed or injured in Ukraine since Russia launched its war in late February. This represents an average of more than five a day, according to UNICEF. “These are just the figures the UN has been able to verify. We believe the true number to be much higher,” […]
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Tue 23 August 2022: On Monday, the number of migrants coming in Britain in small boats set a new record for a single day, as the number of risky crossings across the English Channel continues to grow despite the government’s plans to deport those who arrive illegally to Rwanda. The British Ministry of Defence reported […]
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Tue 23 August 2022: On Monday, Xiaolang Zhang, a former Apple employee accused of stealing computer files containing trade secrets from Apple’s secretive automobile division, pleaded guilty in federal court in San Jose. Federal prosecutors in the United States allege that Xiaolang Zhang downloaded a circuit board design for Apple’s self-driving system after disclosing his […]
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Tue 23 August 2022: Images from the largest and newest space telescope in the world provide previously unattainable views of Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. The images of Jupiter’s northern and southern lights and whirling polar haze taken by the James Webb Space Telescope in July were made public by scientists on […]
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Tue 23 August 2022: The Meta-owned WhatsApp is now introducing a feature that allows group admins to delete any message in the group, following the announcement that deleted messages may be recovered on its most recent beta for iOS version. According to WABetaInfo, the function has only been made available to a select group of […]
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Mon 22 August 2022: Joe Biden thanks Fauci, the US president’s chief medical adviser, for his decades of ‘dedicated’ public service. Dr Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert in the United States who emerged as the public face of the country’s COVID-19 pandemic response, has announced that he will step down in December. Fauci […]
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Mon 22 August 2022: Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin has tested negative in the drug test she took after a video showing her partying with celebrities was leaked, the Cabinet of Ministers said on Monday. “A drug test taken from Prime Minister Sanna Marin on 19 August 2022 found no drugs,” the government’s press office […]
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Mon 22 August 2022: The weekend murder of Darya Dugina, the daughter of an ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue, was allegedly carried out by Ukrainian secret services, according to allegations made by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on Monday. Dugina, the daughter of well-known ideologist Alexander Dugin, was killed on Saturday night when the Toyota Land Cruiser […]
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Mon 22 August 2022: Commander-in-chief of Ukraine, said on Monday, about 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died since Russia’s invasion started, according to the Interfax-Ukraine news agency. Valeriy Zaluzhny told a forum that Ukraine’s children needed particular attention “because their fathers have gone to the front and are maybe among the nearly 9,000 heroes who have […]
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Mon 22 August 2022: Tech giant Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) has reportedly flagged parents’ accounts for potential abuse over nude photos of their sick kids. The father said that after using his Android smartphone to take photos of an infection on his toddler’s groin, the tech giant flagged the images as child sexual abuse material […]
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