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Amber Heard 'pleading' with Johnny Depp over $10 million debt?
The News International 08 Jul 2022
Amber Heard 'pleading' with Johnny Depp over $10 million debt?. Amber Heard has reportedly been ‘begging’ Johnny Depp to ‘scale back’ on the $10 million defamation case debt, in private meetings ... Heard has been going around trying to renegotiate her debt with Mr. Depp directly ... .
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Ukraine is losing and the West is to blame
Asiatimes 07 Jul 2022
For a few weeks, I’ve been in Kiev, partly as a visiting fellow at leading Ukrainian think tank the Transatlantic Dialogue Center. Kiev is an astonishingly elegant and beautiful city; a premier league European capital ... Cafes and restaurants are open and largely busy ... “We are losing this war.”. He is right ... While Ukraine is not winning, it is losing ... ....
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Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has died: state broadcaster
Dawn 08 Jul 2022
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has died, state broadcaster NHK said on Friday. Abe, 67, had been delivering a stump speech near a train station in the western city of Nara when he was shot by an assailant ... Earlier, incumbent Prime Minister Fumio Kishida condemned the attack, terming it “absolutely unforgivable” ... 'A large bang' ... “ ... .
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China demands end to U.S.-Taiwan military ‘collusion’
Asahi News 08 Jul 2022
BEIJING--China has demanded the U.S. cease military “collusion” with Taiwan during a virtual meeting between the joint chiefs of staff from the two countries whose relationship has grown increasingly fractious. Gen. Li Zuocheng told Gen ... “China demands the U.S ... ties and stability in the Taiwan Strait,” Li said ... Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ... U.S ... .
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Russia’s Lavrov says will not go ‘running after’ US for G20 talks
Al Jazeera 08 Jul 2022
Sergey Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia, has said he would not chase after the United States for talks as his counterpart, Antony Blinken, declined to see him at a Group of 20 (G20) summit in Indonesia’s resort island of Bali ... Lavrov, while saluting Indonesia, denounced the approach of Western nations at the G20 ... But, he added ... .
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‘Abenomics’: Abe’s contentious economic legacy
Al Jazeera 08 Jul 2022
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s legacy on the economy is defined by his namesake strategy. Under “Abenomics”, Abe, who died on Friday after being shot during an election campaign event, sought to jolt Japan’s economy back to life after more than two decades of stagnation following the collapse of an asset bubble in the early 1990s ... .
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Deadly wave of strikes as Russia grinds towards Sloviansk
The Jordan Times 08 Jul 2022
SLOVIANSK, Ukraine — Russian forces left a trail of destruction in their wake on Thursday as they grinded deeper into Donbas with their sights set on the industrial hub of Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine as their next target ... The explosion left a large crater in a courtyard between a hotel and residential buildings and several cars were on the fire.
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Blatter and Platini acquitted on corruption charges
RTE 08 Jul 2022
Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and French football star Michel Platini were both cleared of corruption charges by a Swiss court. Blatter, who led FIFA for 17 years, was cleared of fraud by the Federal Criminal Court in the southern city of Bellinzona ... ... .
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China aims to increase population, offers women perks for having babies
The Siasat Daily 08 Jul 2022
Beijing. In a bid to increase its population and further help the country’s labour force, China is giving incentives such as tax and housing credits, educational benefits and even cash to encourage women to have more children ... For decades, the Chinese Communist Party forced abortions and sterilizations on women as part of its one-child policy ... .
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Putin to Ukraine: Russia has barely started its action
Odessa American 08 Jul 2022
The Associated Press. MOSCOW With Russia’s military action in Ukraine in its fifth month, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday warned Kyiv that it should quickly accept Moscow’s terms or brace for the worst, adding ominously that Russia has barely started its action ... “We are hearing that they want to defeat us on the battlefield,” Putin said.
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Trudeau gov’t considers regulating ‘political’ and ‘private’ communications
Life Site 08 Jul 2022
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — Furthering their censorship goals, advisers for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government now say “misleading political communications” needs to be regulated ... “Many experts voiced concern over misinformation and disinformation and highlighted it was not included,” they added.
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Ex-Japan PM feared dead after apparent shooting
Eye Witness News 08 Jul 2022photo: AP / Mark Baker
La Niña and climate crisis behind recent Australia floods
The Guardian 08 Jul 2022
Dangerous and widespread flooding has been widely reported over the past week in eastern parts of Australia, particularly New South Wales.
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Kremlin: Russia has used only a fraction of its potential in Ukraine
FX Empire 08 Jul 2022
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has used only a small portion of its potential in its “special military operation” in Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday ... (Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Kevin Liffey) ... ....
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Rishi Sunak key favourite in race to replace Boris Johnson as UK PM
The Telegraph India 08 Jul 2022
Rishi Sunak, Insosys founder Narayana Murthy’s son-in-law, is an odds-on favourite to become the UK’s next prime minister after his shock resignation as chancellor was key in toppling Boris Johnson. Bookies are giving Sunak 4/1 chances of landing the top job after Johnson announced he would quit as prime minister, sparking the leadership race ... UK ... .