Fri 15 July 2022: Elon Musk’s father, 76, has revealed that he had a second unplanned child with his own step-daughter, who is Elon’s step-sister. Errol Musk revealed to The Sun that he had a daughter with 35-year-old Jana Bezuidenhout three years ago in 2019. Just a year earlier in 2018, Errol had his first child called […]
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Fri 15 July 2022: The new British prime minister must treat “systemic” Islamophobia in the ruling Conservative Party seriously, according to the head of the UK’s leading Muslim organization. As the party searches for outgoing Premier Boris Johnson‘s successor, whoever wins “must represent everybody and they have to make sure that they do that fairly,” said Zara Mohammed, secretary general of […]
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Fri 15 July 2022: Russia’s president authorized the country’s attorney general on Thursday to block foreign media outlets from countries that do the same to Russian outlets. Amid international pushback over the ongoing war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin signed new legislation that gave the attorney general power to order outlets off the air in Russia if their […]
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Fri 15 July 2022: Billionaire Bill Gates is transferring USD 20 billion of his wealth to the endowment of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is increasing its spending in response to global crises like the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, according to media reports. The foundation, one of the biggest philanthropies in […]
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Thu 14 July 2022: Former British finance minister Rishi Sunak won the most votes in the second round of voting to succeed Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party and prime minister, as one candidate was eliminated. Sunak came top with 101 votes, followed by junior trade minister and bookmakers’ favourite Penny Mordaunt on 83 votes and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss […]
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Thu 14 July 2022: Turkiye claimed that it had been successful in negotiating a deal with Ukraine, Russia, and the UN to allow the export of Ukrainian grains, which had been halted by Russia following the invasion. The decision is expected to provide significant relief to economies around the world whose grain imports were largely […]
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Thu 14 July 2022: A former CIA software engineer was convicted on Wednesday of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks from the spy agency, in one of the biggest such thefts in CIA history. Jurors in Manhattan federal court convicted Joshua Schulte, 33, on eight espionage charges and one obstruction charge over the so-called Vault 7 […]
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Thu 14 July 2022: Washington: The US inflation rate increased to 9.1% in June, driven up by increases in the cost of food, housing, and oil. Since the end of November 1981, the 12-month increase in the inflation rate was the biggest. The US Bureau of Labour Statistics said: “Over the last 12 months, the […]
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Wed 13 July 2022: Former US National Security Advisor, John Bolton, has admitted that he helped Washington plan coups in foreign countries, seeming to confirm an unspoken practice which many have long accused the US of conducting. In an interview with the CNN anchor, James Tapper, Bolton addressed accusations that former President Donald Trump orchestrated a planned […]
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Wed 13 July 2022: Belarus sentenced a young journalist who covered rallies against President Alexander Lukashenko to an additional eight years in prison on Wednesday for “state treason,” according to the channel she worked for. Known by the pen name Katerina Andreyeva, Katerina Bakhvalova had already received a two-year term for “violating public order” and […]
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