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Anti-war Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova made headlines in the spring after she interrupted a major Russian-state television network’s live broadcast carrying a sign that read ‘No War,’ while telling viewers they were being lied to. A ruling on Thursday fined Ovsyannikova 50,000 roubles after finding her guilty of “discrediting the army.” “What’s going on here is absurd,” she said before the court. “War is horror, blood and shame.” “Your accusations are like accusing me of spreading monkeypox … The purpose of the trial is to intimidate all the people who oppose the war in the Russian Fe...
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South Korea, one of the few countries that had a successful COVID-19 response during the pandemic, has recorded more than 1,000 new COVID cases for 57 consecutive days, falling short of the government’s expectation of reducing the number of coronavirus cases. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) reported that it saw 2,025 new COVID-19 cases, increasing the total caseload to 253,445. South Korea’s total population is roughly 51 million. The case numbers are surging despite the Asian country’s strict social distancing rules and banning private gatherings after 6 p.m. The gover...
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Ben & Jerry’s announced that it will stop selling ice cream in the occupied Palestinian territories after a slew of fans slammed the company for doing business in Israel and the occupied West Bank. The brand said that their business in Israel does not align with their socially conscious values. In 2015, Ben & Jerry’s posted that they were “keenly aware of how complex the local market can be” in response to a rise in Israeli-Palestinian tensions. In June 2020, the Vermont-based company posted a statement about investing their money “in community-driven solutions that foster real health, peaceke...
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President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced that he is nominating former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Arizona), a Republican who endorsed Biden during his presidential run last year, as the U.S. ambassador to Turkey. Flake served as a senator representing Arizona from 2013 to 2019 and as the representative in the lower house from 2001 to 2013. “With this nomination, the Biden Administration reaffirms the best tradition of American foreign policy and diplomacy: the credo that partisan politics should stop at the water’s edge. U.S. foreign policy can and should be bipartisan,” Flake said in a statement follo...
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte threatened in a television address on Monday to jail people who refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19 – or forced them to get an injection of Ivermectin, which is an anti-parasite drug for pigs that has not been considered as an alternative treatment for the virus. U.S. and European regulators and the World Health Organization (WHO) have not recommended the drug for COVID-19. These words come after Duterte’s apparent frustration with his country’s low vaccination rates in the capital Manila. The Philippines has had a total of 1.3 million cases altogeth...
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Ever Given, the massive container ship, which ran aground in the Suez Canal in Egypt, continues to be stuck as tug boats tried to dislodge the ship on Friday. The ship became horizontally wedged in the waterway following heavy winds. The cargo carrier is more than 1,300 feet long, about 193-feet wide and weighs more than 200,000 tons. One end of the ship was wedged into one side of the canal, with the other stretching nearly to the other bank. Many tugboats were sent to the scene to assist in the re-float operation, which can take days or longer. Peter Berdowski, CEO of Dutch company Boskalis,...
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A formal statement from the Kremlin has denounced the United States and President Joe Biden after Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin “a killer.” Biden said in a recent interview that Russia and Putin will “pay a price” after their meddling in the U.S. Presidential election and attempted assassination of an opposition leader. ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked Biden in an interview if he thought Putin was “a killer.” Biden nodded in agreement, “I do,” he said. “These are very bad statements by the President of the United States. He definitely does not want to improve relations with us...
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