It was inevitable that as soon as Greta Thunberg grew up, her role as the global teenage icon of climate change would lose some of its allure. The international circuit for her spiel is only so big, and once she’d done a few laps the interest starts to wane with …
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Representatives Anna Eshoo and Tom Malinowski wrote letters demanding change to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. A similar letter was sent to the CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, and Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube, which is owned by Google. “For years, social media companies have allowed …
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Anthony Blinken, Biden’s nominee for secretary of state, told members of the US Senate on Tuesday that there were no plans to rescind the US recognition of Guaido as the leader of the South American nation, even though the country is still firmly under the control of the elected government …
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A motion by the Kenosha County District Attorney’s Office filed on Wednesday requests that Rittenhouse be ordered to stay away from bars and supposed “white supremacist” and militia groups as part of his bond deal. The move comes one week after he was spotted at a local tavern with his …
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“We do not need to talk about European sovereignty if it means that, in the future, we will only do everything Washington wants,” Maas told Germany’s dpa news agency while commenting on the German government’s stance on the Russian gas pipeline project. “The federal government will not change its position …
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Speaking on Wednesday, Secretary of State for Housing Robert Jenrick told Sky News that the government is ready to take further action to limit the spread of Covid-19. Asked if guidance for the Christmas period may change, the housing secretary said, “If we need to do that we won’t hesitate …
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“We can learn a lot about climate change from Venus, our sister planet,” read an article on the World Economic Forum’s website this week. According to the post, new scientific modelling has revealed that for much of its history, Venus had surface temperatures similar to present-day Earth, complete with oceans, …
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“There’s no difference between Biden and Trump, they are the same guy. They are following the same policy, there’s no difference between them. Trump ordered the killing of my father, but Biden supported that, so there’s no difference,” Zeinab Soleimani told RT’s Afshin Rattansi on Going Underground in an interview …
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The first batches of Covid-19 vaccines are on the cusp of availability, but International Federation of Red Cross President Francesco Rocca said that a “second pandemic” of “fake news” about vaccines might turn the public off getting the jab. “We believe that the massive coordinated effort that will be needed …
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Citing “new details” obtained by its journalists from unidentified sources, Fars said on Sunday that the lead security vehicle in scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh’s three-vehicle convoy of bulletproof cars left its escort position to prepare the arrival location in Absard, east of Tehran. Just then, the car carrying Fakhrizadeh and his …
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