Nige­ria: Fam­i­lies of miss­ing train pas­sen­gers be­moan govt si­lence
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Rel­a­tives of the ab­duct­ed pas­sen­gers say gov­ern­ment in­ef­fi­cien­cy led to the at­tack and is de­lay­ing res­cue ef­forts.
Published On 8 Apr 2022

All-pri­vate as­tro­naut team lifts into space in land­mark launch
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SpaceX’s flight is its first to take pri­vate cit­i­zens to the ISS af­ter two years of car­ry­ing as­tro­nauts there for NASA.
Published On 8 Apr 2022

Palm Sun­day church at­tacks: Egypt’s ‘worst day of vi­o­lence’
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Egypt’s se­cu­ri­ty sit­u­a­tion five years af­ter ISIL-claimed church blasts killed 48 peo­ple.
Published On 8 Apr 2022

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‘We have come a long way’: Jus­tice-to-be Ke­tan­ji Brown Jack­son
Jack­son, the first Black woman ever con­firmed to the US Supreme Court, says her ap­point­ment is ‘ho­n­our of a life­time’.
Published On 8 Apr 2022

BLM Accused Of Laundering Millions Of Dollars In Weird Home Transfer Scheme
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Noam Chomsky: A Left response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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The ongoing war in Ukraine is a humanitarian disaster with tremendous geopolitical, economic, social, and climate-related repercussions that are being felt throughout the world. How have these horrific events come to pass? What will the short-term and long-term effects be on the people of Ukraine, the people of Russia, and on the global political order? And what does a principled, internationalist, anti-imperialist left response to the war in Ukraine look like?In this special discussion, world-renowned linguist and analyst Noam Chomsky speaks with legendary activist and socialist Bill Fletcher, Jr. about the roots o...

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U.S. Media Boast of Waging Information War Against Russia
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This week saw reports in U.S. media openly admitting that American intelligence services have been knowingly sowing disinformation in the media.

Former CIA director William J. Casey once candidly told U.S. President Ronald Reagan and other aides during a meeting in the White House, “We’ll know when our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false”.

Some have viewed that observation to be...

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Scientists discover trove of over 5,500 new viruses hidden in the ocean
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New categories introduced to capture the diversity of the newly discovered species

At least 5,500 new virus species have reportedly been found across the world’s oceans in a major new discovery published by an international team of researchers in the Science journal on Thursday.

The team stated that they had achieved this advance by using machine-learning analyses in tandem with traditional evolutionary trees to assess some 35,000 water samples from around the globe.

The group was specifically searching for new viruses that contained RNA genetic material, stating that the scientific community...

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Influencer says White House used TikTok stars as ‘pawns’
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Social media celebrities repeated “exactly what the White House was saying” after briefing, Khalil Greene said

TikTok celebrity and self-described “Gen Z Historian” Khalil Greene has criticized his fellow influencers for telling their fans “verbatim” what the Biden administration wanted them to say on the Ukraine conflict. Greene said that he understands why conservatives said that the young influencers were “used as pawns by the White House.”

Greene was one of 30 social media creators invited to a video conference by the White House last month, during which Press Secretary Jen Psaki la...

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NBC employees fear for brand integrity if Psaki hired – media
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White House press secretary's potential hire ruffles feathers at network's sister station

NBC journalists are concerned former White House press secretary Jen Psaki's hire at their sister station MSNBC would “tarnish” the brand's credibility, people familiar with the matter told CNN on Friday.

There was apparently enough concern over the issue to warrant an “impromptu phone call” from NBC News president Noah Oppenheim, the sources claimed, revealing the executive had attempted to soothe angry and anxious employees by drawing a distinction between NBC an...

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‘An abom­i­na­tion’: World re­acts to dead­ly Kram­a­torsk at­tack
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Ukraine says bomb­ing of train sta­tion in east­ern re­gion of Donet­sk killed at least 50 peo­ple, draw­ing glob­al re­buke.
Published On 8 Apr 2022

Top Proud Boys mem­ber pleads guilty to US Capi­tol riot charges
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Guilty plea is the sec­ond from a mem­ber of the far-right Proud Boys group at the fore­front of the 2021 Capi­tol riot.
Published On 8 Apr 2022

Is­raeli leader grants forces ‘full free­dom’ af­ter Tel Aviv at­tack
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PM Naf­tali Ben­nett gives Is­raeli forces the green light to curb at­tacks af­ter Pales­tin­ian kills three men in Tel Aviv.
Published On 8 Apr 2022

At least 16 killed in at­tack on army base in Burk­i­na Faso
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Re­in­force­ments were sent to se­cure the Namis­sigu­ima mil­i­tary base af­ter the dead­ly at­tack.
Published On 8 Apr 2022

Will Smith gets 10-year Os­cars ban for slap­ping Chris Rock
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Smith, who re­signed from the mo­tion pic­ture acad­e­my last week, says he re­spects and ac­cepts the de­ci­sion.
Published On 8 Apr 2022