Tue 09 August 2022: US President Joe Biden has signed the ratification documents to accept Sweden and Finland into NATO, bringing the northern European countries closer to becoming members of the alliance. Biden said the US was the 23rd country to formally approve the countries’ membership bids. The US Senate had overwhelmingly backed expanding NATO […]
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Tue 09 August 2022: The risk of a new conflict between Kosovo and Serbia, according to Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti, is high because the region’s circumstances have changed since the Ukrainian war. Kurti commented on the escalating tensions between the two countries in an interview with the Italian daily La Repubblica. “The risk of […]
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Tue 09 August 2022: Scorching hot summer temperatures caused by climate change is wreaking havoc across the planet. Reportedly, Canada’s easternmost province of Newfoundland and Labrador is facing its worst ever forest wildfire, which has been raging for the better part of the last two weeks. Such has been the state of affairs that Premier Andrew Furey […]
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Tue 09 August 2022: Former US President Donald Trump said Monday that his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida was being raided by the FBI, decrying the unprecedented “assault.” In a statement posted on his Truth Social network, Trump said his “beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents.” Aerial footage of Mar-a-Lago […]
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Tue 09 August 2022: Tens of thousands of users reported being unable to access various Google services on Monday night, according to outage monitor Downdetector. “User reports indicate Google Maps is having problems since 9:36 PM EDT (0136 GMT),” Downdetector tweeted. More than 40,000 users, including in New York City and Denver, Colorado, reported disruptions when trying to use Google’s services, […]
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Tue 09 August 2022: The Reserve Bank of Australia has announced plans to study the possible economic benefits of implementing a central bank digital currency (CBDC). In a statement released on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) announced that it would conduct a year-long pilot project to investigate “innovative use cases and business models” […]
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Mon 08 August 2022: A Russian soldier in the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of war crimes. The court considered it proven that the tank soldier fired on a multi-storey apartment building, carrying out an order shortly after the war began at the end of […]
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Mon 08 August 2022: The UK Ministry of Defence has released figures that reveal more than 18,000 refugees have crossed the English Channel this year. On Saturday, 337 people crossed on ten boats and the Monday before that Border Force rescued 696 people in what became the busiest day so far in 2022. The MOD’s figures also show that 1,709 people have been rescued and […]
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Mon 08 August 2022: A study published on Monday, the Metropolitan Police (Met), Britain’s largest police force, strip-searched 650 minors, predominantly black males, between 2018 and 2020, Xinhua reported. According to research published by Rachel de Souza, the children’s commissioner for England, 95 percent of the 650 minors aged 10 to 17 searched by Met […]
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Mon 08 August 2022: On Wednesday, Russia’s Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange (SPB) will resume full trading in hundreds of foreign equities, boosting Russians’ ability to purchase and sell international shares. Investors will be able to trade shares of around 200 foreign businesses, including Apple and Tesla, which are popular stock selections among Russian retail investors, […]
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