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Lukashenko orders closure of Belarus border with Ukraine, citing inflow of arms to coup-plotters
Press TV 03 Jul 2021
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has ordered the closure of the border with Ukraine in a bid to halt what he referred to as an influx of arms to coup plotters detected by the nation’s security forces, according to state news agency BelTA. "A huge amount of weapons is coming from Ukraine to Belarus ... "They have crossed the line ... www.presstv.ir.
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A Boeing 737 Just Crashed Off the Coast of Hawaii
Interesting Engineering 02 Jul 2021
A Boeing 737 cargo plane was forced to execute an emergency water landing off the coast of Hawaii after taking off from Honolulu, according to . After takeoff, the plane was forced to turn back for the landing strip, and ... Coast Guard rescued both crew members.
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Second Florida building evacuated as death toll rises to 22 in condo tower collapse
Egypt Independent 03 Jul 2021
SURFSIDE, Fla., July 2 (Reuters) – The death toll rose to 22 on Friday from the collapse of a Florida condominium tower after the remains of four more victims were found in the rubble, and local officials ordered a second residential complex evacuated after deeming it unsafe ... “It’s just the right thing to do during these times ... ....
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Ransomware hits hundreds of US companies, security firm says
Indian Express 03 Jul 2021
A ransomware attack paralyzed the networks of at least 200 U.S. companies on Friday, according to a cybersecurity researcher whose company was responding to the incident. The REvil gang, a major Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate, appears to be behind the attack, said John Hammond of the security firm Huntress Labs ... Hammond wrote on Twitter ... Photos.
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F1 champion Hamilton signs 2-year extension with Mercedes
Centre Daily Times 03 Jul 2021
Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton will ...
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Greta Thunberg attacks world leaders: ‘When the protests get too loud, you make the protests illegal’
The Independent 01 Jul 2021
Greta Thunberg has torn into global leaders’ response to the worsening climate crisis, accusing them of ‘role-playing’ and failing to take meaningful action, while levels of fossil fuel usage keep climbing ... She told the delegates ... “Eventually the public pressure was too much ... She said ... It never was.
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Bitcoin network undergoes largest difficulty drop ever by nearly 28%
The Block 03 Jul 2021
The mining difficulty of the Bitcoin network has dropped by 27.9%, as the network adjusts to the massive drop in hash rate. This is the biggest decrease in mining difficulty since the network went live in 2009. The Bitcoin network updates its mining difficulty level every 2,016 blocks, which is roughly every two weeks ... © 2021 The Block Crypto, Inc.
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Heatwaves a deadly reminder for world to act on climate change
Korea Times 03 Jul 2021
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada / AFP-Yonhap. Summer is little more than a month old in the northern hemisphere and temperature records are already tumbling. An unprecedented heat wave has killed dozens of people in western Canada and the northwestern United States. South Asia and the Middle East, Russia and Eastern Europe are also sweltering ... .
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France resumes joint military operations in Mali
Al Jazeera 03 Jul 2021
France has announced it will resume joint military operations in Mali after suspending them early last month following the West African country’s second coup in less than a year ... Mali and France play key roles in the fight against a bloody insurgency plaguing the Sahel region ... .
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Venezuela's Maduro says US plotting his assassination
Press TV 03 Jul 2021
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has once again accused US spy agency CIA and the American military of plotting to assassinate him, questioning whether current President Joe Biden is aware of the move ... "What did they do?” he further asked. “Our sources in Colombia assure us ... This is not the first time Maduro has made such an accusation ... Maduro ... .
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Over 400,000 in Tigray suffering famine now, with 1.8m on brink
Al Jazeera 03 Jul 2021
More than 400,000 people in Ethiopia’s Tigray are now suffering famine and 1.8 million others are on the brink, a top United Nations official has said, painting a devastating picture of an embattled region where humanitarian access is extremely restricted ... Some are suggesting that the numbers are even higher ... Food alone does not avert a famine.” ... .
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People missing, homes swept away in Japan landslide after heavy rain
Press TV 03 Jul 2021
A huge landslide swept away homes and left 19 people missing at a popular resort town in central Japan on Saturday after days of heavy rain, local officials said. Television footage showed a torrent of mud obliterating some buildings and burying others in Atami, southwest of Tokyo, with people running away as it crashed over a hillside road ... (Source.
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Ethiopia denies trying to 'suffocate' Tigray region
San Francisco Chronicle 02 Jul 2021
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s government on Friday rejected accusations that it’s trying to “suffocate the Tigray people” by denying them urgently needed food and other aid, even as transport and communications links remained severed to the region that faces the world's worst famine crisis in a decade ... These are our people,” Demeke said ... The U.N ... .
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Afghan War Causes Record Bloodshed Amid US Troop Exit
The Wire Network 02 Jul 2021
The simmering war in Afghanistan, if official accounts are to be accepted, has killed more people last month than in any other month since 2001, when the United States and NATO troops invaded the country ... Afghan security forces, backed by air power, have retaken some of the lost territory and say they have inflicted heavy casualties on the Taliban.
