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Bitcoin Is Now Legal Currency In This Central American Country
NDTV 09 Jun 2021
The Congress of El Salvador has approved a law that will classify Bitcoin as legal tender in the Latin American country, its president said, making it the world's first nation to adopt a... .
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France’s Macron slapped in face during walkabout
Metro USA 08 Jun 2021
PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron was slapped in the face on Tuesday by a man in a crowd of onlookers while on a walkabout in southern France, video of the incident showed. Macron’s security entourage quickly intervened to pull the man to the ground and move Macron away from him ... .
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Beijing Says COVID Lab Leak Claims 'No Different' From Lies About Iraqi WMD
Urdu Point 08 Jun 2021
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 08th June, 2021) The Chinese Embassy in the United States has slammed what it believes are baseless allegations that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab, comparing them with false accusations that suggested Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction ... ....
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Biden administration urging Venezuela, Cuba to turn away Iranian ships: report
The Hill 09 Jun 2021
The Biden administration is urging Venezuela to turn away two Iranian naval ships that are believed to be headed towards the country, Politico reported. Multiple sources close to the matter told Politico the White House is pressuring Venezuela's government to not allow the Iranian ships, which are believed to be carrying arms, to dock ... However, U.S.
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Putin Qualifies Ukraine as 'Product of Soviet Period'
Urdu Point 09 Jun 2021
Commenting on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's bill on the indigenous peoples, Russian President Vladimir Putin recalled that Ukraine was a product of the Soviet period ... Kremlin. Putin program ....
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Does money grow on volcanoes? El Salvador explores bitcoin mining
Canada Dot Com 09 Jun 2021photo: USAF / Airman 1st Class Kyle Cope
Israeli air strikes kill eight soldiers in Syria
The Arab Weekly 09 Jun 2021
DAMASCUS – Israeli air strikes in central Syria killed at least eight pro-government fighters late Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. “At least five army soldiers and three allied fighters were killed,” Observatory chief Rami Abdul Rahman said, adding that several more were wounded ... .
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‘A competition to win the 21st century’: US Senate passes anti-China bill
Sydney Morning Herald 09 Jun 2021
Washington ... Nor have they been able to agree on an independent commission into the January 6 Capitol riot, an infrastructure spending package or police reform..
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‘This is a revolution’: the faces of Colombia’s protests
The Guardian 09 Jun 2021
Fifty-eight people have died in six weeks of unrest, but ...
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South African woman gives birth to 10 babies
Anadolu Agency 08 Jun 2021
A 37-year-old South African woman broke the Guinness World record by giving birth to 10 babies, according to media reports Tuesday ... Teboho Tsotetsi said his wife also had six-year-old twins. He said he was happy and emotional about the news ... .
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TikTok Sued in the Netherlands for $1.7 Billion Over Collecting Children’s Data: The Epoch Times
Community news 09 Jun 2021
The Amsterdam-based Market Information Research Foundation (SOMI) sued the video-sharing platform TikTok on behalf of 64,000 Dutch parents, seeking 1.4 billion euros (about $1.7 billion) for allegedly collecting data from millions of children ... In addition, SOMI pointed out that TikTok collects far more data than it needs for marketing.
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Kim Jong-un: apparent weight loss prompts speculation over North Korean leader’s health
The Guardian 09 Jun 2021
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Biden's Europe-bound press plane delayed by cicadas
RTE 09 Jun 2021
US President Joe Biden's press plane was delayed by a horde of cicadas, US media reported, grounding the flight for his European diplomatic tour by several hours. The noisy insects have reemerged from 17 years underground, a regular cycle where they burst out of the soil to shed their skin, mate, lay eggs and then die ... .
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Wife of 'El Chapo' to plead guilty to helping him run drug cartel, NY Times says
Reuters 09 Jun 2021
Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Mexican narcotics kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, is expected to plead guilty this week to federal charges of helping him run the notorious Sinaloa drug cartel, the New York Times reported on Tuesday ... Her plea agreement will not require her to cooperate with U.S ... A spokesman for the U.S ... Our Standards.
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At least 10 charity workers killed in attack in Afghanistan
The Irish Times 09 Jun 2021
At least 10 people have been killed and 16 others injured in an armed attack on staff members of a British-American charity in Afghanistan that has been clearing land mines in the country for decades, officials said on Wednesday ... He said the victims were all Afghan citizens, and the wounded were transferred to hospitals ... Taliban attacks ... .
