Fri 05 August 2022: US President Joe Biden declared monkeypox a public health emergency to raise funds and assist in data collection. Experts warned that the outbreak needed to be contained quickly as there were over 6,600 cases countrywide, with almost a quarter of them coming from New York state. In a phone call, Xavier […]
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Fri 05 August 2022: Who doesn’t enjoy world records and sandwiches? Imagine being a part of a world record that also included a massive sandwich. Residents of Venustiano Carranza neighborhood in Mexico City recently had the chance. The world record for the longest ‘torta’ sandwich was broken during the 17th annual Torta fair in the […]
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Thu 04 August 2022: The intensive care units (ICU) all around France are under pressure, according to Marc Noizet, head of Samu-Urgences France, a provider of emergency services. Speaking to the French news channel Franceinfo, Noizet said that an investigation of the ICU in July shows that in some regions, there were “very significant increases […]
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Thu 04 August 2022: Brittney Griner, a prominent player for the American basketball team, was found guilty of drug possession and smuggling by a Russian judge on Thursday and given a nine-year jail sentence. The time Griner has spent in detention since her arrest in February, according to Judge Anna Sotnikova, will be applied to […]
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Thu 04 August 2022: Sajid Javid, a former Conservative health minister, pledged his support for Liz Truss on Wednesday, joining a growing list of prominent Tories who are behind her leadership campaign. Early in July, Javid and Rishi Sunak, both former Chancellors of the Exchequer in Boris Johnson’s cabinet, both announced their resignations, setting off […]
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Thu 04 August 2022: Toyota Motor Corp. reported a 42 percent drop in operating profits for the most recent quarter as the Japanese carmaker struggles with supply issues and rising prices, Reuters reported. Toyota announced on Thursday that operating profit for the three months ended June 30 fell to 578.66 billion yen ($4.3 billion) from […]
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Thu 04 August 2022: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres slammed the “grotesque greed” of oil and gas companies and their financial backers and urged governments globally to “tax these excessive profits” to support the most vulnerable people. “It is immoral for oil and gas companies to be making record profits from this energy crisis on […]
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Thu 04 August 2022: The European Union on Wednesday called for an “immediate cessation of hostilities” between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh. “It is essential to de-escalate, fully respect the ceasefire and return to the negotiating table to seek negotiated solutions,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell’s spokesman said in a statement. Azerbaijan announced […]
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Wed 03 August 2022: Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told Serbian President Alexandar Vucic on Wednesday that the NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo (KFOR) is prepared to act if necessary. In their phone conversation, the two addressed “tensions in northern Kosovo,” according to Stoltenberg’s tweet. To “engage constructively in the EU-mediated dialogue and solve the differences through […]
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Wed 03 August 2022: A measure to outlaw bullfighting is being introduced in France rather than Spain, Anadolu Agency reported. The practice, which Aymeric Caron, an MP for the far-left France Unbowed party, has denounced as being outdated and cruel, will be outlawed by a bill that he will introduce to the National Assembly the […]
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