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Earthquake strikes southern Iran, light tremors felt in UAE
Gulf News 01 Jul 2022
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Inventor of world’s first cellphone: Put down your devices and ‘get a life’
New York Post 01 Jul 2022
The inventor of the world’s first cellphone says he’s stunned by how much time people now waste on their devices, telling users to “get a life.”. Martin Cooper, 92, made the declaration during an interview with “BBC Breakfast” on Thursday, responding to a co-host who claimed she whiled away upwards of five hours per day on her phone ... 'GET A LIFE!!!'.
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When will the war in Ukraine end?
Al Jazeera 01 Jul 2022
Forecasts on when the war will end differ widely ... “[Perhaps] the latter is not very far.” ... “Ukraine cannot afford to stop now because it would lose one-fifth of its territory to Russia, including vital Black Sea trading ports, the industrial and mining area of the Donbas, and important tracts of agricultural land ... He continued ... .
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UN report highlights crippling impact of 15 years of Israel's Gaza siege
Press TV 02 Jul 2022
Marking the 15th anniversary of the Israeli regime’s crippling siege of the Gaza Strip, a United Nations report highlights the monumental toll the blockade has taken on the coastal enclave’s population. The report was released by the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Thursday ... Access to outside world ... Hamas.
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Germany unveils plan to deregulate legal name and gender change process
Jurist 01 Jul 2022
The German government Thursday presented plans to make it easier for transgender people to legally change their first name and gender, ending the current rules which require an expert assessment and court authorization ... Commenting on the proposed law, Federal Minister of Justice Dr ... ....
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Unique terror trial that changed France
BBC News 02 Jul 2022
It was a trial to match the scale of the crime. More than 400 survivors and relatives of the dead came forward to bear witness to France's worst peace-time attack ... Nine months of hearings were interspersed with breaks, each week, to allow emotions to settle ... "Something shifted, because it was as if my story was not mine anymore ... Top Stories ... .
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Feds Detail Frantic Texts Between Driver and Organizer of Doomed Migrant Truck
The Daily Beast 01 Jul 2022
A 28-year-old Texas man accused of orchestrating the horrific smuggling operation that killed 53 migrants this week frantically texted the driver when the truck went off the radar and later admitted to a confidential informant he had no idea the air conditioning had failed in the sweltering big-rig, the feds say ... “I go to the same spot.” ... “Wya?” ... .
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‘Napalm girl’ Phan Thi Kim Phuc receives final burn treatment after 50 years
The Guardian 01 Jul 2022photo: Creative Commons / Valen1988
Armenia, Turkey agree to open borders for third-country nationals
Al Jazeera 01 Jul 2022
Armenia and Turkey have agreed in normalisation talks to open their common border for third-country nationals and to begin direct cargo flights, according to the Turkish foreign ministry and Interfax news agency citing the Armenian foreign ministry ... Turkey and Armenia restored diplomatic contacts in December 2021 after they were suspended for years.
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Denmark’s Leader Apologizes for Botched Pandemic Mink Cull
New York Times 01 Jul 2022
The comments by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen came after a report called the government’s decision in 2020 to kill some 17 million mink over coronavirus fears illegal ... .
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Taliban supreme leader addresses major gathering in Kabul
Al Jazeera 01 Jul 2022
Mullah Haibatullah Akhunzada, the reclusive supreme leader of the Taliban, has attended a major gathering of religious leaders and elders in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul ... The arrival on Friday of Akhunzada, who had not been filmed or photographed in public since the group returned to power in August last year, was broadcast on state radio ... .
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The Mafia Built A Port. Now It's a Global Cocaine Hub.
Vice 01 Jul 2022
A port the Calabrian mafia helped to build has become so crucial to organised crime that it accounts for almost all of the cocaine seized entering Italy by sea. ... The gangsters not only funded part of the building of the port, companies controlled by them were involved in its construction and its operation. .
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MH17 crash: Passengers were unlawfully killed, coroner concludes
BBC News 01 Jul 2022
Five British citizens were unlawfully killed when Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot down in eastern Ukraine, a coroner has concluded. Inquests into the deaths of five of the 298 on board have been jointly held in England, where their bodies were repatriated to ... It exploded in front of the cockpit of the aircraft, the inquest heard ... Top Stories ... .
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CNN touts Hillary Clinton as the ‘next president’
Blitz 01 Jul 2022
CNN editor-at-large Chris Cillizza @ChrisCillizza in a tweet titled ....
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Sweden and Finland’s NATO bid can be nixed, warns Erdogan
One India 01 Jul 2022
Brussels, Jul 01. As the NATO summit drew to a close on Thursday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that Sweden and Finland's accession to NATO could still be blocked if the countries did not fulfill their end of a bargain with ... .