Thu 04 August 2022: Brittney Griner, a prominent player for the American basketball team, was found guilty of drug possession and smuggling by a Russian judge on Thursday and given a nine-year jail sentence. The time Griner has spent in detention since her arrest in February, according to Judge Anna Sotnikova, will be applied to […]
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Thu 04 August 2022: U.S. President Joe Biden tested positive again for COVID-19 on Thursday but he was feeling “very well,” his physician Kevin O’Connor said in a memo released by the White House. Biden was still experiencing a “very occasional” cough, but the cough was improving, O’Connor said in the memo. Biden will continue […]
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Thu 04 August 2022: Israeli airlines have obtained Saudi permission to cross its airspace, Israeli media reported, Anadolu News Agency reports. The official I24NEWS channel said, Thursday, that the Israeli airlines El Al, Israir and Arkia, obtained the Saudi approval to fly over its airspace, and the approval took effect Wednesday. Saudi Arabia will also allow other foreign companies […]
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Thu 04 August 2022: On Thursday, Tokyo’s defense minister, said, China’s ballistic missiles are believed to have landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone for the first time, Reuters reports. “Five of the nine ballistic missiles launched by China are believed to have landed within Japan’s EEZ,” Nobuo Kishi told reporters, as China holds massive military […]
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Thu 04 August 2022: China has fired several ballistic missiles into the waters around Taiwan as it launched large-scale military exercises in response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the self-ruled island. Chinese state media said the live-fire drills in six areas around Taiwan got underway at noon local time (04:00 GMT) on Thursday and […]
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Satellite photo from Planet Labs Inc. shows construction at the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center near the city of Dimona according to satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press. (Planet Labs Inc. via AP) Monday, Feb. 22, 2021 Thu 04 August 2022: Saudi Arabia’s envoy to the United Nations, Ambassador Dr. Abdulaziz bin Mohamed […]
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Thu 04 August 2022: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres slammed the “grotesque greed” of oil and gas companies and their financial backers and urged governments globally to “tax these excessive profits” to support the most vulnerable people. “It is immoral for oil and gas companies to be making record profits from this energy crisis on […]
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Thu 04 August 2022: The European Union on Wednesday called for an “immediate cessation of hostilities” between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh. “It is essential to de-escalate, fully respect the ceasefire and return to the negotiating table to seek negotiated solutions,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell’s spokesman said in a statement. Azerbaijan announced […]
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Wed 03 August 2022: On Wednesday, Japan reported 249,830 new COVID-19 cases, setting a record high amid concerns about the overcrowded healthcare system as a result of the rapidly increasing number. The previous record was set on Thursday last week during Japan’s seventh wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, when 233,000 cases were reported. This was […]
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Wed 03 August 2022: Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told Serbian President Alexandar Vucic on Wednesday that the NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo (KFOR) is prepared to act if necessary. In their phone conversation, the two addressed “tensions in northern Kosovo,” according to Stoltenberg’s tweet. To “engage constructively in the EU-mediated dialogue and solve the differences through […]
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