AUSTRALIAN PM REFUSES TO PUBLICLY INTERVENE FOR JULIAN ASSANGE

Mon 20 June 2022: Stella Assange, Assange’s wife, is concerned about her husband’s deteriorating health Anthony Albanese, Australia’s newly elected prime minister, has declined to publicly demand that the US drop its prosecution of WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange. In an opinion piece published in The Sydney Morning Herald on Monday, Bob Carr, who was foreign minister when Albanese’s center-left Labor Party was […]

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META ALLOWS YOU TO BUY AN AVATAR’S CLOTHING THROUGH AN ONLINE STORE

Mon 20 June 2022: Tech giant Meta, formerly called Facebook, has announced that it is launching a digital clothing store — Avatars Store — that will let users purchase outfits for their avatar. In a Facebook post, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said launching ‘Avatars Store’ on Facebook, Instagram and Messenger so that users can buy digital […]

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ELON MUSK WANTS TWITTER TO BE MORE LIKE WECHAT, TO ALLOW OUTRAGEOUS COMMENTS

Sun 19 June 2022: Elon Musk informed Twitter staff on his first direct call about his goals for the company if he takes ownership, including making it more like TikTok and WeChat and permitting “outrageous comments.” The Tesla CEO, however, clarified that such comments shouldn’t be amplified. Musk told Twitter employees that the platform needs […]

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BRITISH MILITARY MUST BE CAPABLE OF DEFEATING RUSSIA- ARMY HEAD

Sun 19 June 2022: According to local media, the new chief of the British army told troops that Britain needed a force capable of fighting in Europe and defeating Russia. Boris Johnson, a prominent backer of Ukraine since Russia’s incursion in February, has ruled out deploying British troops to assist Kyiv, but has warned that […]

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FOREST FIRES NEAR BERLIN FORCE RESIDENTS TO LEAVE THEIR HOMES

Sun 19 June 2022: Residents of several villages south-west of Berlin have been ordered to leave the area due to a forest fire that has been burning since Friday. On Sunday afternoon, police wrote on Twitter that people should follow the instructions of local law enforcement officers. The local town hall in Treuenbrietzen is serving […]

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CRYPTO WINTER CONTINUES AS BITCOIN FALLS BELOW $18K AND ETHEREUM FALLS 80%

Sun 19 June 2022: As the crypto market remained in chaos, the leading cryptocurrency Bitcoin fell below $18,000 per digital coin on Sunday, a massive 70% decrease from its record high of $68,000 in November last year. In the wake of economic crisis predictions, the prices of popular cryptocurrencies fell by as much as 35% […]

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US LAWMAKERS ALSO SEEK A UNIVERSAL CHARGER AFTER EU

Sun 19 June 2022: Following the European Commission’s announcement that by 2024, a USB-C connector will be used to charge a variety of devices, including smartphones, tablets, portable speakers, and e-readers, US lawmakers have urged the Commerce Department to follow that example and decrease environmental waste. Senators Ed Markey (D-MA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Bernie […]

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“EVEN IF THE COSTS ARE HIGH”: NATO, UK WARN OF LONG UKRAINE WAR

Sun 19 June 2022: As Russian soldiers intensified their attack on Ukrainian positions in the east of the country, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg advised Western allies to prepare for the long haul in Ukraine. On Saturday, Johnson and Stoltenberg issued separate warnings, while Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited […]

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HEARD VS. DEPP AND THE CONSEQUENCES FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS

Sun 19 June 2022:  It has been several weeks since the verdict of the Heard vs. Depp trial; however, it seems that the aftermath will have long-term effects on several issues, as specialists point out. What happened in the courtroom? In 2018, Heard penned her now-infamous op-ed in The Washington Post, claiming she experienced domestic abuse […]

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