Wed 17 August 2022: Britain’s Conservative Party leadership hopeful Rishi Sunak claimed on Monday that there is a “very strong case” for moving the British Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and formally recognising the latter as the “historic capital city” of the occupation state. His comment was made during a Q&A session […]
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Wed 17 August 2022: NASA’s huge Space Launch System moon rocket, topped with an uncrewed astronaut capsule, began an hours-long journey to its launchpad on Tuesday night in preparation for the behemoth’s first test flight later this month. The 98-meter-tall rocket is scheduled to go into orbit without a human crew on August 29. It […]
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Wed 17 August 2022: British consumer price inflation increased to 10.1% in July, its highest level since February 1982, up from a yearly rate of 9.4% in June, according to official data released on Wednesday. This increased pressure on consumers. The increase exceeded everyone’s predictions in a Reuters poll for inflation to increase to 9.8% […]
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Wed 17 August 2022: The legislation, though less than Biden originally wanted, brings the largest investment to fight climate change in United States history. US President Joe Biden has signed a $740bn climate change, healthcare and tax bill into law, handing the Democratic Party a much-needed win ahead of the November midterm elections. In a signing […]
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Tue 16 August 2022: Swiss chocolate maker Lindt & Spruengli has decided to exit the Russian market because of the invasion of Ukraine, the company said. The company, famous for its Lindor chocolate balls and golden foil-wrapped Easter rabbits, had decided in March to close its shops and suspend deliveries to Russia temporarily. “We will support […]
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Tue 16 August 2022: Germany has sent troops to Bosnia and Herzegovina to join the European Union’s peacekeeping mission for the first time in 10 years as concerns mount about instability from the Ukraine war spilling over to the Western Balkans. On Tuesday, the first German troops to return to the country were greeted in […]
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Hadi Matar, 24, in court in New York on Saturday. Tue 16 August 2022: Salman Rushdie, a British novelist who was recently stabbed numerous times while attending an event in New York state, is awake. According to a law enforcement officer with firsthand knowledge of the inquiry, who was quoted by CNN on Tuesday (August […]
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Tue 16 August 2022: The United States military reported on Tuesday that on August 16 at 12:49 a.m. Pacific Time, Vandenberg Space Force Base in California launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a test re-entry vehicle. The military informed that the test had been postponed in order to prevent tensions with […]
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Tue 16 August 2022: Donald Trump asserted on Monday that FBI agents “stole” his passports during the August 8 search, a day after asking the Department of Justice to hand over the records protected by the attorney-client privilege. “Wow! In the raid by the FBI of Mar-a-Lago, they stole my three Passports (one expired), along […]
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Tue 16 August 2022: Following a string of sweltering heatwaves and a record-breaking drought, flames in Europe have burnt an area roughly equal to one-fifth of Belgium. Experts estimate that this might push the entire continent towards a record-breaking year for wildfire destruction. The greatest land fire recorded since records began in 2006 occurred between […]
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