Mon 22 July 2024: Shortly after U.S. President Joe Biden announced he would not run for a second term, his Republican opponent, Donald Trump, remarked that “crooked Biden wasn’t fit to run” for president and that Vice President Kamala Harris will be “easier to defeat” in November’s election. “All those around him, including his Doctor […]
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Mon 22 July 2024: The Australian Defence Department announced a compensation plan for families of victims who were unlawfully killed or abused by Australian special forces in Afghanistan. VIDEO SHOWS AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER SHOT UNARMED AFGHAN AT CLOSE RANGE Over the course of 20 years, more than 39,000 Australian soldiers served in Afghanistan, with 400 soldiers […]
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Sun 21 July 2024: United States President Joe Biden says in a letter on X he is stepping down as a candidate in the 2024 election, endorses Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee. Dozens of congressional Democrats have publicly urged the 81-year-old to step aside after his shaky debate performance last month against Republican challenger Donald Trump, 78. My […]
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Sun 21 July 2024: Russia said on Sunday that it prevented a pair of US strategic bombers from crossing its border. A statement by the Russian Defense Ministry said the country’s “means of airspace control” detected a group of air targets over the Barents Sea as they were approaching the border. The statement said Russian […]
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Sun 21 July 2024: Bangladesh’s Supreme Court has reduced the controversial government job quota system that led to deadly nationwide protests. Although the streets have calmed following the ruling, student leaders vow to continue demonstrations until their demands, including the release of those jailed and the resignation of officials responsible for the violence, are met. […]
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Sun 21 July 2024: A massive IT outage is currently affecting computer systems worldwide. In Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, reports indicate computers at banks, media organisations, hospitals, transport services, shop checkouts, airports and more have all been impacted. Today’s outage is unprecedented in its scale and severity. The technical term for what has happened to the affected computers […]
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Sun 21 July 2024: The US Capitol Police said Friday that there will be an increased law enforcement presence at the Capitol for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress next week. Netanyahu is expected to face protests from both outside demonstrators and members of Congress, with some lawmakers vowing to boycott the speech, […]
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Hawks in Limpopo received information about suspicious activities taking place at the farm. Photo SPAS Twitter Sun 21 July 2024: South African police have uncovered an industrial-scale meth lab and arrested four suspects, including two Mexicans, in one of the country’s biggest-ever drug busts. The laboratory was discovered on a farm in Groblersdal, a small […]
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Sat 20 July 2024: Bangladesh imposed a nationwide curfew to suppress student-led protests against government job quotas, with military and police patrolling Dhaka’s largely empty streets. Soldiers established checkpoints after the government enforced the curfew to prevent further demonstrations exacerbated by economic insecurity. Violence and Casualties The protests have turned deadly, with dozens killed and […]
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Sat 20 July 2024: A global tech outage that was related to a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft devices, Microsoft said in a blog on Saturday. “We currently estimate that CrowdStrike’s update affected 8.5 million Windows devices, or less than one percent of all Windows machines,” it said in the […]
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