Wed 20 July 2022: A significant portion of Europe could experience “very high ozone pollution” as a result of heatwaves, according to scientists with the European Union’s climate monitoring service. “Very high levels of ozone pollution in southern Europe caused by the heatwave could now affect northwestern regions in the coming week,” said a statement on Tuesday […]
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Wed 20 July 2022: The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, was punish by Russia’s communications watchdog on Wednesday for breaking the law in relation to the conflict in Ukraine. Wikipedia still hosted “prohibited materials, including fakes about the course of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine”, and that search […]
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Wed 20 July 2022: As the number of patients in hospitalised with COVID-19, Australians have been urged to work from home and wear masks indoors. The BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants are causing the third wave of coronavirus in the country, earlier this month, access to second booster shots was expanded to address the recent […]
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Wed 20 July 2022: The CEO of Turkey’s Baykar, which makes the drones being widely used by Ukraine against Russian forces, has ruled out supplying the Bayraktar TB2 to Moscow. In an interview with CNN on Monday, Haluk Bayraktar said Ukraine is “under very heavy aggression and disproportionate attacks”. When pressed by CNN presenter Julia […]
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Tue 19 July 2022: A senior World Health Organization (WHO) official warned on Tuesday that countries need to speed up vaccination uptake and bring back measures like mask use to avoid stricter measures as autumn and winter approach. An Omicron offshoot is driving a growing COVID-19 wave in Europe. In a Reuters interview, WHO Regional […]
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Tue 19 July 2022: Britain‘s ex-finance minister Rishi Sunak again topped the latest vote by Conservative MPs to choose a new prime minister. Three contenders were left in the race as another candidate was eliminated with this vote. Sunak, the former chancellor and the frontrunner, won 118 MPs’ votes, just short of the 120 needed to guarantee a […]
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Tue 19 July 2022: In response to the increase in fires that have occurred during a heatwave that has set records throughout Europe and the United Kingdom, London’s firefighting authority has declared a major incident in the British capital. Tuesday saw the deployment of dozens of fire engines by the London Fire Brigade, including 30 […]
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Tue 19 July 2022: A key report released on Tuesday found, Australia’s environment is in “poor and deteriorating” condition and is under increasing pressure from climate change, pollution, and mining. The State of the Environment 2021 report, which is released every five years, states that investments in biodiversity conservation are insufficient and that invasive species […]
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Tue 19 July 2022: Russian authorities are drafting a new law which would legalise and regulate Islamic banking in the country, initially to be introduced across four Muslim-majority republics as part of a pilot scheme, including Chechnya, Dagestan, Tatarstan and Russian Bashkiria. The implementation of non-credit banking institutions would function as Financing Partnership Organisations (FPO), […]
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Tue 19 July 2022: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) used huge volumes of people’s cell phone location information quietly extracted from smartphone apps to track their movements on a scale not previously known, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) claimed on Monday. The ACLU published thousands of pages of previously unreleased records about how […]
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