Mon 06 December 2021: Animal protection organizations said Monday that around 100 dead cats were discovered in the home of a retired man in southern France. The volunteers were alerted by the niece of the 81-year-old who entered his house on Sunday after he was taken to hospital in Nice on the French Riviera and […]
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Mon 06 December 2021: In a new report the Guardian has mapped out the surveillance and deterrent systems being used on EU borders to deter refugees. Last month Poland approved a $398 million, 18-foot-high wall, with cameras and motion sensors to be built along its border with Belarus. It is also sending automated texts to people telling […]
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Mon 06 December 2021: On Sunday, health officials in the United Kingdom confirmed that 86 more cases of Omicron Covid had been reported in the country. This brings the total number of cases in the United Kingdom to 246. On Saturday, however, there were 160 Omicron cases, an increase of more than 50% in one […]
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Mon 06 December 2021: Representative Ilhan Omar expressed confidence that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will take “decisive action” against Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert in the coming days for remarks about Omar that have been deemed Islamophobic. Rep. @Ilhan Omar on punishing Congresswoman Boebert: “I had a conversation with Speaker [Pelosi] and I’m very confident that […]
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Mon 06 December 2021: Sales of weapons and military services by the world’s 100 biggest arms companies reached a record $531bn in 2020, an increase of 1.3 per cent in real terms compared with the previous year, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The Swedish think tank said 2020 marked the sixth […]
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Mon 06 December 2021: Creating a world record for a one-of-a-kind thing is memorable, but breaking your own world record again is driven by a desire to be even better. This is true for the Gay family of Hudson Valley, New York. This family broke their own world record for the most Christmas lights on a residential property with a display of 687,000 lights. This family set the Guinness World Record for the most bulbs in a single day for the first time in 2014, with 601,736 bulbs. Since then, they have been making concerted efforts to break the record. According to the Albany Times-Union, the family also hopes to raise $500,000 for the fire department and local charities from visitors to the drive-through display they set up this year. The massive displays are created by Tim Gay, Grace Gay, and their three grown children. After the addition of animation in 2007, it began to gain popularity among visitors. “It always felt pretty cool being a part of something so big. It’s really been […]
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Sun 05 December 2021: Thousands of people gathered on Friday to protest the government’s new guidelines, which were issued for the third week in a row as an avalanche of new cases strains the country’s health services, depriving individuals with other life-threatening conditions of treatment. The “Liberty Walk Act 2” protest opposed restrictions imposed in […]
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Sun 05 December 2021: The Halawa shaft, which supplies 20% of Honolulu’s water, has been shut down following the discovery of the “source of contamination.” The portable water system of a Navy well near Pearl Harbor found what is believed to be petroleum chemicals. People in the region are experiencing nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headaches, and […]
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Sun 05 December 2021: Pope Francis told journalists and officials on Saturday that the world is seeing a scaling back of democracy, Anadolu Agency reported. “We cannot avoid noting with concern how today, and not only in Europe, we are witnessing a retreat from democracy,” said Francis at his welcoming ceremony at the Greek Presidential mansion. The […]
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Sun 05 December 2021: Meta (formerly known as Facebook) has introduced a new platform to help stop revenge porn in an effort to bring positive changes to the internet and make it a safer place. Meta, in collaboration with more than 50 non-governmental organizations from around the world, has launched StopNCII.org, a portal that will […]
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