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UN chief calls for new global consensus on cooperation to ensure collective security

People Daily 23 Aug 2022

22 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday stressed the need to reforge a global consensus around the cooperation required to ensure collective security ... "We need to reforge a global consensus around the cooperation required to ensure collective security, including the work of the United Nations .".

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US imposes sanctions on nearly 5K Russians post invasion of Ukraine

The Telegraph India 23 Aug 2022

During his regular daily news conference, State Department Spokesperson Ned Price told reporters that the US had tapped into its strategic petroleum reserve at an unprecedented pace by working with allies around the world, including in regions, literally, halfway around the world ...

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Utah cowboy Stetson Wright breaks regular season all-around earnings mark again

Billings Gazette 23 Aug 2022

In 2020, he was the PRCA world champion in the all-around and bull riding. Last season, he added his fourth and fifth gold buckles by winning the all-around yet again and capturing his first saddle bronc riding world title ... He currently sits No.1 in the PRCA world standings in bull riding and second in saddle bronc riding.

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Qatar World Cup 2022: Dubai hotels to make do with current staff levels even with occupancy surge

Gulf News 23 Aug 2022

UAE hotels will not get into a recruitment overdrive in the coming weeks to take on increased demand for the final weeks of the year during the FIFA World Cup in Qatar ... “We are training our staff for the World Cup phase because it will be an extremely busy month and fans will be coming in at odd hours.

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Stanford summer fellowship crafts next generation of global leaders

Stanford Daily 23 Aug 2022

“It all started in 2005 with Michael McFaul’s audacious idea that we could launch a Summer Fellows Program and try to train and interact with 30 of the brightest, most promising practitioners we could find around the world,” said law professor and Draper Hills lecturer Erik Jensen.

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Stop 'nuclear sabre-rattling', UN chief demands

The National 23 Aug 2022

The world is at a “maximum ... Around the world, Mr Guterres said, collective security is being tested as “never before”, pointing to geopolitical divides, conflicts, military coups, invasions, lengthy wars and differences between the world’s great powers, “including at this council”.

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You can help name planets observed by the James Webb Telescope: Here's how

Fox31 Denver 23 Aug 2022

(NEXSTAR) - The James Webb Space Telescope has the out-of-this-world honor of observing exoplanetary systems - those outside our solar system - but only we humans get the chance to name the systems ... The NameExoWorlds contest invites people from around the world to team up for a chance to name the exoplanets discovered by Webb.

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Holy mosques’ authority in Makkah honors volunteers who assist pilgrims

Arab News 23 Aug 2022

Ambassadors of Humanity” program to mark the UN’s World Humanitarian Day, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Monday ... Al-Shalawi said Saudi Arabia marks World Humanitarian Day to pay homage to those workers and volunteers who risk their lives providing aid to needy people around the world.

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Maybank III selected to play for U.S. in Junior Presidents Cup

Cheyboygan Daily Tribune 23 Aug 2022

I always make a bunch of goals around the new year for the next year, and I’ve been trying to make this team since I can remember, 12 or 13 years old, I had the dream of making this team, so I’m super excited.” ... It means the world to me ... and 12 representing from around the world, excluding Europe.

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China's deceptive tactics of misappropriation of Tibetan Buddhism to gain control over Tibet

Beijing News 23 Aug 2022

Tibetan Buddhism has a legacy that has captured the imagination of the world and continues to inspire people across the world ... He is the youngest known political prisoner in the world ... CCP is also aggressively focussing on controlling the process of and narratives around the reincarnation of the 14th Dalai Lama.

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Philippine students return to school for first time since Covid

Business Ghana 23 Aug 2022

Millions of students across the Philippines have returned to the classroom on Monday, after one of the world's longest school closures ... Around 24,000 of the country's public schools - or just less than half - will implement five days of face-to-face classes ... The Philippines ...

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Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps: A Main Tool of Uyghur Oppression

Bitter Winter English 23 Aug 2022

and the United States, are polluting trade around the world due to their complex and opaque accountability networks ... As long as companies around the world continue to source from XPCC subsidiaries, Uyghurs and other local peoples in the region will continue to suffer.”.

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Next Step To Widespread Bitcoin Adoption: Community Banks

Bitcoin Magazine 23 Aug 2022

Inspired by the success of Bitcoin Beach in El Salvador, community banks are beginning to spring up around the world in an attempt to connect remote and underbanked communities to the world of digital finance via the Lightning Network ... Anybody around the world is able to instantly ...

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OSU gymnastics: Carey wins vault at U.S. championships

Corvallis Gazette-Times 23 Aug 2022

1 all-around gymnast in the NCAA rankings, won 11 all-around titles — including wins at the Pac-12 championships and the NCAA Seattle Regional — and claimed 47 total event titles. Carey also rewrote the Oregon State gymnastics record book as she recorded nine of the top 10 individual all-around scores in program history.

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Why George Kambosos Jnr vs. Devin Haney will be different this time around

Sportingnews 23 Aug 2022

The 29-year-old Aussie became unified lightweight champion when he defeated Teofimo Lopez in New York City last November ... The 23-year-old, who will be putting his IBF, WBC, WBO, WBA, WBA (Super) and The Ring lightweight world titles on the line, said he’s hoping to put an exclamation point on the fight this time around.