Fri 10 June 2022: At a news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who is visiting the Western Balkans, Prime Minister Albin Kurti indicated that Kosovo will submit an official application to join the European Union before the end of the year. “We still aspire to the status of EU candidate and we plan to […]
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Fri 10 June 2022: Reduced wheat and other food commodity exports from Ukraine and Russia risk putting 11 million to 19 million more people at risk of chronic hunger in the coming year, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. The conflict in Ukraine has exacerbated a global food crisis, with prices for grains, […]
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Fri 10 June 2022: The United Nations said Friday it was concerned about the death sentences handed by pro-Moscow separatists to two British and one Moroccan soldier captured by Russian troops while fighting for Ukraine. “The UN Human Rights Office is concerned about the so-called Supreme Court of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic sentencing three […]
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Fri 10 June 2022: The Paris prosecutor’s office said Thursday that it had opened a preliminary inquiry into dozens of cases of Salmonella poisoning in popular Kinder sweets during the key Easter holiday season. A range of chocolate products made at the company’s factory in Arlon, southeast Belgium, were found to contain Salmonella bacteria, resulting in 150 cases in nine European countries. As […]
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Fri 10 June 2022: Google is developing two built-in snore and cough detection tools that will allow it to determine whether users snore or cough while sleeping. According to 9To5Google, the tech giant is working on these features for Pixel and Android. The tech website spotted lines of code in the installation file of the […]
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Fri 10 June 2022: President Putin of Russia, compared himself to Peter the Great, the 18th-century Russian king who led a conquest of the Baltic coast during his battle against Sweden. On Thursday, as the Kremlin’s soldiers continued a grinding war of attrition in eastern Ukraine, Putin also spoke of his country’s need to “take […]
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Thu 09 June 2022: According to media reports, a court in a separatist-controlled breakaway region of eastern Ukraine has sentenced two British citizens and one Moroccan national to death for being caught while fighting for the Ukrainian army against Russian forces. The supreme court of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), which is controlled by […]
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Thu 09 June 2022: LinkedIn, which is owned by Microsoft, is expanding its Clubhouse-style live audio service in order to encourage artists. The firm, which initially debuted live audio events in January, is now allowing all creators to host their events. According to Engadget, the update would allow all LinkedIn creators who utilize the platform’s […]
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Thu 09 June 2022: The Turkish president on Thursday called on Greece to stop the militarization of “(Aegean) islands with non-military status” and to act “in accordance with international agreements.” Speaking at a ceremony in Turkey’s Aegean province of Izmir during the EFES-2022 military exercise, one of the largest planned drills of the Turkish army, […]
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Thu 09 June 2022: According to analysis on a Wednesday, sanctions imposed on Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine are reversing more than a decade of economic progress and three decades of integration with the West. However, economists at the Institute for International Finance warn that the impact is a “moving target” because more sanctions […]
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