Wed 02 July 2025: New measures to protect the UK from “covert foreign influence” took effect Tuesday to strengthen national security, according to the British government. “National security will be bolstered as the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS) launches today, one of the foundations of the government’s Plan for Change” scheme, it said. It noted […]
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Wed 02 July 2025: UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has issued a report naming several US giants among companies aiding Israel’s occupation and war on Gaza. Companies from other countries – from China to Mexico – are also named. The United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory […]
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Tue 01 July 2025: US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would look into deporting billionaire Elon Musk as their feud reignited over a Republican-backed spending bill. “I don’t know. We’ll have to take a look,” Trump told reporters when asked if he would deport Musk. His remarks came after the Tesla CEO renewed his […]
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Tue 01 July 2025: Billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday stepped up his opposition to US President Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” pledging to launch a new political party if the controversial omnibus bill is approved by Congress. “It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a […]
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Tue 01 July 2025: Psychology experts have many concerns about the potential impact of AI on the human mind. Researchers at Stanford University recently tested out some of the more popular AI tools on the market, from companies like OpenAI and Character.ai, and tested how they did at simulating therapy. The researchers found that when they imitated […]
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Tue 01 July 2025: A punishing heatwave gripped southern Europe on June 30, prompting authorities to issue health and wildfire warnings as temperatures are expected to soar again. France, Italy, Portugal and Spain have been sweltering for several days as the mercury climbed to 44 degrees Celsius in some places. “This is unprecedented,” Agnes Pannier-Runacher, France’s ecology transition minister said as […]
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Tue 01 July 2025: Around 40 million people across the world are currently living with HIV, a virus that has claimed more than 42 million lives since the beginning of the epidemic. But for the first time in decades, scientists and public health officials are daring to talk about a realistic path to ending HIV […]
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Tue 01 July 2025: The administration of US President Donald Trump has approved a $510 million arms deal in favour of Israel. The US Department of State said on Monday that the approved deal includes over 7,000 guidance kits for two different types of Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM). The potential sale includes 3,845 KMU-558B/B […]
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Fri 27 June 2025: A majority of Israelis support ending the war in Gaza and reaching a prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas, according to a poll published on Wednesday by Israeli news site Walla. The survey, conducted in collaboration with the private research institute Panel4All, sampled 583 Israeli and carries a margin of error of 4.3%. Public insistence on ending […]
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Fri 27 June 2025: Catholic pontiff says international rules have been ‘replaced by the presumed right to overpower others’. Pope Leo XIV has lamented what he described as the rise of blunt power over the rules of international law as conflicts rage around the world and global institutions continue to fail to end abuses and […]
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