Wed 01 December 2021: On Tuesday, CNN suspended Chris Cuomo indefinitely for his involvement in defending his brother, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, against sexual harassment allegations. Cuomo had previously acknowledged talking to his brother and offering advice when the governor faced the harassment charges that led to his resignation. But the information released […]
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Wed 01 December 2021: Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have revealed the closest pair of supermassive black holes to Earth ever observed. The two objects also have a much smaller separation than any other previously spotted pair of supermassive black holes and will eventually merge into one giant black […]
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Wed 01 December 2021: Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Wednesday that Australia will hold a wide-ranging parliamentary inquiry into the behavior of the world’s major technology giants and the need for new legislation. Australia has taken the lead in international attempts to limit the dominance of companies such as Alphabet and Facebook, enacting legislation […]
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Tue 30 November 2021: According to top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci, there are at least 226 confirmed cases of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus in 20 countries. “This mutational profile is very different from other variants of interest and concern, and although some mutations are also found in delta, this is […]
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Tue 30 November 2021: Russia will not abandon the dollar and will continue to work with it, but if the United States does not want it, Russia will reduce its use of the currency, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “We will not give up the dollar, we will work with the dollar, as much […]
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Tue 30 November 2021: Pope Francis visits Cyprus this week to lend his support to a conflict-riven island now on the front line of a new migratory route for people fleeing their countries for Europe, Reuters reports. In central Nicosia, nothing tells the story of an influx in arrivals more than the small courtyard area outside the […]
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Tue 30 November 2021: Anti-refugee rhetoric is a useful distraction from government corruption and incompetence. What would you do if you’d been exposed for corruption and making false promises, were declining in popularity, and looked utterly incompetent, arrogant, and weak? If you were the right-wing, nationalist, British Conservative government you’d fabricate a ‘crisis’ out of people doing what you’d […]
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Tue 30 November 2021: National science agency says climate ‘overwhelming factor’ in driving fires, with fire seasons getting longer and affecting more areas. New research by CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, has found climate change has driven a significant increase in forest fires in the country over the past 30 years. The study, published in Nature […]
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Mon 29 November 2021: France registered its biggest jump in coronavirus-related hospital admissions since the spring, according to official data, Reuters reports. The number of patients in intensive care units jumped by 117 to 1,749 people, the biggest increase since March-April, when the ICU number rose by more than 100 per day on several days. […]
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Mon 29 November 2021: In an effort to combat the spread of the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) advised health authorities on Monday to extend the COVID-19 booster vaccine to all people aged 18 years old. The vaccine watchdog, which had previously advised the […]
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