July 2021
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To understand what lies at the heart of William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s marriage, and how they have managed to escape the Windsor curse, you have to go back to July 29, 1980. It was a Tuesday and crowds had gathered at Cowdray polo club to watch Prince Charles do his…
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Kanye West has said more memorable things in the last decade than any other pop star alive. Yes, occasionally the things he says are infuriating, reductive and stupid. But, for the most part, Kanye is an endless reservoir of strange knowledge. 1. “Bought more jewelry, more Louis V., my momma couldn’t get through to me” Song: “Can’t…
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The Police Service Commission has said it will determine the fate of the Commander of the IGP Intelligence Response and Monitoring Team, Abba Kyari, a deputy commissioner of police, indicted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for alleged involvement in a $1.1m Internet fraud. The commission also noted that Kyari might face dismissal or demotion,…
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An Afghan police guard was killed Friday when a United Nations compound came under attack in Herat, officials said, as fighting raged between government forces and the Taliban on the outskirts of the western city. Violence has surged across the country since early May, when the Taliban launched a sweeping offensive as the US-led foreign forces began a final…
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France’s personal data protection agency on Wednesday fined US firm Monsanto for illegally compiling files of public figures, journalists and activists with the aim of swaying opinion towards support for its controversial pesticides. The firm, now owned by German chemical giant Bayer, failed to inform the people on the watch lists compiled in the context…
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A year after the explosion that rocked Beirut on August 4, 2020, killing 218 people, injuring more than 7,000 and devastating much of the city, the Lebanese investigation into the blast has yielded no credible results. Families of the victims, some of whom are calling for an international investigation, talked to the media about their search…
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WITH a deadly virus circulating the past year and a half, many people have been wondering how they can boost their immunity. Masturbating is sometimes touted as a way to give the immune system a kick-start. When Covid first started causing chaos in the Western world in March 2020, Google searches for “can masturbation boost immunity”…
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Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s bid to have two charges of sexual assault against a woman thrown out was rejected by a Los Angeles judge Thursday. Weinstein, already convicted of rape in New York, was extradited last week to the California city where he once towered over the movie industry, but now stands accused of…
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India has become the latest country to consider issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC), the country’s reserve bank deputy chief announced on Thursday. T. Rabi Shankar, the deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India, said the bank was considering a phased introduction of its own CBDC and is examining various issues including the underlying technology…
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Pope Francis presented this speech about the family, describing families as a place of forgiveness.. FAMILY, PLACE OF FORGIVENESS … ©️ There is no perfect family.©️ We do not have perfect parents, you are not perfect yourself. We do not marry a perfect person or we do not have perfect children. ©️ We have complaints…
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The Covid-19 pandemic has killed more than 4.19 million people worldwide since the end of December 2019, according to a report established by Agence France-Presse on Thursday, July 29. The United States is the country with the most deaths (over 612,000), ahead of Brazil (554,000) and India (422,000). In addition, more than 4 billion doses…
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Cryptocurrency exchanges could be forced to collect the details of people sending and receiving crypto under new rules proposed by the European Commission. The EU’s executive branch announced the potential change on Tuesday as part of a package of reforms aimed at tackling financial crime within the bloc. “The aim of this package is to improve…
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The photo stands out: three Chinese diplomats in dark suits are surrounded by nine Taliban leaders, in shalwar kameez (long tunic), turbans and brush beards. Not a smile. Communist China, deeply anti-religious and engaged in a fierce repression of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, a region bordering Afghanistan, where beards and other religious symbols are enough…
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The term designates a cyberspace parallel to physical reality where a community of people can interact in the form of avatars. The concept was coined by author Neal Stephenson in the 1992 science fiction novel “Snow Crash”. It refers to the merging of physical, augmented, and virtual reality in a shared online space. Some video…
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