Fri 12 August 2022: Former Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev has issued a veiled threat to Ukraine’s Western allies, who have accused Moscow of creating the risk of a nuclear catastrophe at the Zaporizhzhia power plant, saying “accidents can happen at European nuclear plants too”. Ukraine has accused Russia of firing at Ukrainian towns from the […]
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Fri 12 August 2022: Baby powder containing talc will no longer be sold anywhere in the world, according to healthcare products giant Johnson & Johnson, more than two years after it ceased doing so in the United States and Canada. Beginning in 2023, the corporation will no longer sell the product on the international market. […]
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Fri 12 August 2022: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Thursday that all military activities immediately stop at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant as Russia and Ukraine traded blame for shelling at Europe’s largest nuclear facility. Guterres expressed grave concern about the unfolding situation in and around the nuclear station in southern Ukraine and implored all military […]
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Fri 12 August 2022: Google has agreed to pay a $60 million fine in response to a protracted legal battle with Australia’s competition watchdog over misleading customers about the collection of their personal location data. In April of last year, a federal court ruled that Google had broken consumer protection laws by misleading certain local […]
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Fri 12 August 2022: Almost 40 Palestinian children have been killed so far this year in the occupied territories and in many incidents, Israeli forces appear to use lethal force in a manner that violates international human rights law, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said. The United Nations rights chief issued a […]
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Fri 12 August 2022: NASA predicts that a “potentially hazardous” giant asteroid will pass within 4.3 million km of Earth on Friday. According to NASA’s Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies, the asteroid, dubbed 2015 FF, has a diameter of 13 to 28 meters (CNEOS). According to Live Science, it will pass the Earth at a […]
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Fri 12 August 2022: Xi Jinping, the president of China, is apparently planning to travel to Saudi Arabia the next week, according to news reports in the international media, However, a spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry stated on Thursday that he had no information to provide at the time in response to a question […]
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Thu 11 August 2022: Former Russian TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova has been placed under house arrest for two months after being charged with spreading fake news about Russia’s armed forces, Interfax news agency has reported. 🇷🇺 Marina Ovsyannikova, a journalist who protested against Russia’s war in Ukraine during a prime-time news broadcast, holds up a […]
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Thu 11 August 2022: Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani, a renowned Taliban religious leader, was killed in an explosion at a seminary in Kabul, according to Taliban authorities. “Very sadly informed that respected cleric [Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani] was martyred in a cowardly attack by enemies,” said Bilal Karimi, a spokesperson for the Taliban administration, on Thursday. It […]
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Thu 11 August 2022: After an outbreak of H5N8 bird flu on a farm in northern Germany, authorities said on Thursday that approximately 110,000 chickens would be slaughtered, Reuters reported. According to the Vechta district council, the disease was verified on an egg-producing farm in Langwege, in the Vechta district of the northern state of […]
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