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Joe Biden breaks heart of Kamala Harris
Blitz 20 Jul 2021
... sky considering herself as the first female president of the United States.
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Bezos is ‘laughing at every person who paid taxes’: Progressive politicians blast Amazon owner’s spaceflight
The Independent 21 Jul 2021
Progressive politicians such as Bernie Sanders, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, and Elizabeth Warren have all blasted Amazon owner and the world’s richest man Jeff Bezos for flying to space after not paying taxes ... from the bottom of my heart, very much.
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For eight years, Australia has been taking refugees as hostages. It’s time to ask: who has benefited?
The Guardian 21 Jul 2021
The offshore detention policy is a combination of hostage-taking, deception, secrecy, corruption, populist propaganda, and of course, systematic torture.
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The UK has been linked to Congo’s ‘conflict minerals’ – where are the criminal charges?
The Guardian 21 Jul 2021photo: AP / Vincent Yu
Hong Kong police arrest another Apple Daily editor under security law
RTE 21 Jul 2021
Mr Lam is the ninth employee of Apple Daily arrested under a sweeping national security law that Beijing imposed on Hong Kong last year after huge and often violent democracy protests ... Mr Lam was the editor who oversaw that final edition, ending the paper's 26-year run.
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Pegasus Rides Again: The NSO Group, Spyware and Human Rights
GlobalResearch 21 Jul 2021
The NSO Group was one such provider. It sees its mission was a noble thing, itself as a creator of “technology that helps government agencies prevent and investigate terrorism and crime to save thousands of lives around the globe.” ... to expose the depredations of the Pegasus spyware, the golden child of the NSO Group. .
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Satellite photos show China's new aircraft carrier coming together quickly and reveals more about its design
Business Insider 20 Jul 2021
The Liaoning, China's first aircraft carrier, departs Hong Kong, Tuesday, July 11, 2017 ... A CSIS analysis of the latest imagery said that certain aspects of the design can now be confirmed. Different from its predecessors, the ship has a flat flight deck and catapults ... "They are moving at quite the clip.
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France to escalate Cyprus issue to UN in row over ghost town
The Independent 21 Jul 2021
France has voiced its support for Cyprus on Wednesday after the announcement that Turkish Cyprus would reopen part of a ghost town on the Mediterranean for resettlement, which had been considered a ”red line” by Greek Cyprus ... to the United Nations.
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UK wants to strike ‘new balance’ on Northern Ireland with EU, as government launches bid to rewrite protocol
Belfast Telegraph 21 Jul 2021
Brexit secretary Lord Frost has said the UK wants to strike a “new balance” on Northern Ireland with the European Union as the UK launches an attempt to rewrite the Protocol ... “These proposals will require significant change to the Northern Ireland Protocol,” David Frost said ... “These impacts risk being felt in the fabric of our union too,” he warned.
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Sicilian towns face bankruptcy over Etna clean-up costs
The Guardian 21 Jul 2021
Dozens of Sicilian towns face bankruptcy due to the cost of cleaning up the volcanic ash left by Mount Etna, which has been erupting ...
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Mali opens probe into attempted assassination of interim president
The National 21 Jul 2021
Colonel Goita is the figure behind two coups in the country in less than a year. “An ill-intentioned individual tried to physically harm” Col Goita after prayers for Eid Al Adha at the Grand Mosque in Bamako, the capital, prosecutor Bourama Kariba Konate said ... The man detained was a teacher, Mr Tomoda said on Tuesday.
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UNESCO strips England's Liverpool of world heritage status
France24 21 Jul 2021
The English city of Liverpool has been removed from UNESCO’s list of world heritage sites after the United Nations' cultural agency found new buildings, including a football stadium, undermined the attractiveness of its Victorian docks ... .
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Eating red and processed meat ‘increases risk of heart disease’
Belfast Telegraph 21 Jul 2021
Now, in the biggest review of all large-scale studies to date, experts have concluded that red and processed meat also increases the risk of heart disease ... Researchers from the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Population Health examined 13 studies on the issue, involving more than 1.4 million people.
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Afghanistan among deadliest places in world for civilians, says Red Cross
Anadolu Agency 21 Jul 2021
Afghanistan remains among the deadliest places for civilians in the world, said the International Committee of the Red Cross on Wednesday, amid rising violence in the war-ravaged country ... There was no immediate reaction to the report by either Taliban insurgents or the Afghan government.
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US life expectancy dropped 1.5 years in 2020
Al Jazeera 21 Jul 2021
Overall life expectancy in the United States fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest one-year decline since World War II, health officials have said – but the decrease for Black Americans and Hispanic Americans was even worse, at three years ... For decades, US life expectancy was on the upswing.
