Wed 14 June 2023: French Senate has adopted a draft law about testing public facial recognition technologies, local media reported. The draft law was adopted on Monday with 226 votes in favor, while 117 left-wing senators rejected it, the daily Le Monde said. It aims to create a legal framework to test, for three years, […]
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Sam Ogden/SPL Wed 14 June 2023: The shortage of effective chemotherapy drugs is posing a significant risk to cancer patients and their treatment outcomes. This shortage includes cheap, generic drugs that have been used in cancer medicine for many years. The number of active medication shortages reached 295 at the end of last year, representing […]
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A ceremony to hand over Māori and Moriori artefacts held at the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. Photograph: Leif Piechowski/Leif Piechowski / Lichtgut Stuttgart.[Twitter] Wed 14 June 2023: 95 Indigenous New Zealanders’ remains, as well as artifacts and cultural treasures, have been returned to New Zealand from museums and colleges in Germany. The 95 Maori […]
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Wed 14 June 2023: A group of US lawmakers has called for a US-Africa trade summit planned for later this year to be moved from South Africa in response to what they said was the country’s “deepening military relationship” with Russia. In a letter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other senior officials, […]
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Tue 13 June 2023: Former US President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to 37 felony counts related to wilfully mishandling sensitive information when he left the White House and lying to officials attempting to collect them, according to Reuters. “We most certainly enter a plea of not guilty,” Trump’s attorney, Todd Blanche, told the […]
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Tue 13 June 2023: France accused Russia on Tuesday of leading a disinformation campaign against the country, claiming that manipulation would have no effect on its support for Ukraine, Anadolu Agency reported. French Foreign Ministry spokesperson Anne-Claire Legendre said at a news conference that “fake internet pages impersonating [French] media outlets and government websites, as […]
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Tue 13 June 2023: Currently, there are 431 wildfires burning across Canada, 208 of which are out of control, Minister for Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair said on Monday. “Across the country, there are currently 431 wildfires burning, 208 of which are determined to be out of control,” Blair said at a press conference. Blair added […]
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Tue 13 June 2023: Violent clashes resumed in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, today between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, according to witnesses. Sounds of artillery shelling and heavy and light weapons were heard in Bahri, northeast of Khartoum and south of the capital, witnesses said. Military aircraft were also seen […]
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An image shows Iranian drone transfer to Russia, as evidence of new Russian-Iran cooperation, in this handout acquired June 9, 2023. White House/Handout via REUTERS Tue 13 June 2023: UK’s defence ministry says “Russia has likely moved from receiving small deliveries of Iranian OWA-UAVs [one-way attack unmanned aerial vehicles] by air transport, to larger consignments by […]
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China’s DF-41 nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles on display to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Tue 13 June 2023: Think tank SIPRI says China had 17 percent more nuclear warheads in January 2023 compared with the year before. The world’s nine nuclear-armed states are continuing to modernise […]
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