Tue 28 June 2022: The World Health Organization reported almost 3,400 confirmed monkeypox cases and one fatality as of last Wednesday, with the majority of them coming from Europe, according to an update issued on Monday. WHO said that since June 17, 1,310 new cases were reported to the agency, with eight new countries reporting monkeypox […]
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Tue 28 June 2022: U.S. President Joe Biden‘s wife and daughter have been banned from Russia, along with 23 other Americans, the Russian foreign ministry said on Tuesday. “As a reaction to the constantly expanding U.S. sanctions against Russian political and public figures, 25 American citizens are added to a ‘stop list,’” the ministry said in a note accompanying the […]
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Tue 28 June 2022: Authorities in San Antonio said that more than 40 migrants were discovered dead inside a big-rig truck’s trailer on Monday. At least 46 individuals, including four children, were reported killed and hospitalized, according to San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood. According to police, both males and females, many of them young […]
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Mon 27 June 2022: Thirty-seven irregular Moroccan immigrants have died as they stormed Spain’s Melilla, the Spanish rights group Caminando Fronteras reported yesterday. The organisation’s spokesperson, Helena Maleno said that the number of Moroccans was “37, not 18” as stated on Saturday by the government in Rabat. Maleno added that there were also “serious injuries among the migrants,” […]
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Mon 27 June 2022: New G7 sanctions on Russia were announced by the United States on Monday, June 27. The Russian defense industry is the subject of these latest sanctions. Slowing down the Russian war machine in Ukraine appears to be the goal. “G7 leaders will align and expand targeted sanctions to further restrict Russia’s […]
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Mon 27 June 2022: Twitter has been accused of neglecting to take action against accounts that encourage hatred on its platform by the Muslim community in Australia. An advocacy group for the community has filed a complaint against Twitter with the Queensland Human Rights Commission, citing a manifesto of the extremist who murdered 77 people […]
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Mon 27 June 2022: The nearly intact mummified remains of a young woolly mammoth were unearthed by miners in the remote Klondike gold fields of Canada. The calf was given the Tr’ondek Hwech’in First Nation’s nickname Nun cho ga, which translates to “big baby animal.” The little tyke, which still had its skin and hair, […]
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Mon 27 June 2022: Russia has missed the deadline on payment of its foreign-currency sovereign debt for the first time in a century as the 30 day grace period on about $100m of two bond payments due on May 27 expired on Sunday. The deadline is considered an event of default if missed, according to […]
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Sun 26 June 2022: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made light of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s iconic bare-chested images during a G7 meeting in Krün, Germany. On social media sites, the video has gone viral At a G7 lunch on Sunday (June 26), world leaders mocked Putin’s tough-man image […]
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Sun 26 June 2022: Russian gold imports will be banned by the G7, US President Joe Biden announced on Twitter on Sunday. The action will put “unprecedented costs on Putin to deny him the revenue he needs to fund his war against Ukraine,” Biden said. It is scheduled to be officially announced at the G7 […]
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