Dollar bankruptcy: Russia may soon default on debt servicing
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Russia is on the brink of its first debt default since 1998 as the Sunday deadline to make a $100m interest payment seems certain to be missed.
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Russia is on the brink of its first debt default since 1998 as the Sunday deadline to make a $100m interest payment seems certain to be missed.
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'Got to show them our pecs': Boris, Trudeau mock Putin's infamous bare-chested pics - Watch
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At a G7 meeting in Germany's Krรยผn, United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau poked fun at Russian Pres
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Khabib Cousin Extends Undefeated Record with Dominant Victory
Buzz in the MMA world continues to increase around lightweight legend Khabib Nurmagomedov's cousin Umar after the Russian dominated Nate Maness in Las Vegas on Saturday at UFC on ESPN 38.
The 26-year-old improved his undefeated record to 15-0 with a unanimous decision win that boasted scores of 30-27, 30-26 and 30-25.
Just ninety seconds into the bout with Khabib looking on, Umar scored his first takedown of the night and then displayed a strong grappling game that his cousin โ who retired on 29-0 as the lightweight champion in 2020.
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Khabib Cousin Extends Undefeated Record with Dominant Victory
Buzz in the MMA world continues to increase around lightweight legend Khabib Nurmagomedov's cousin Umar after the Russian dominated Nate Maness in Las Vegas on Saturday at UFC on ESPN 38.
The 26-year-old improved his undefeated record to 15-0 with a unanimous decision win that boasted scores of 30-27, 30-26 and 30-25.
Just ninety seconds into the bout with Khabib looking on, Umar scored his first takedown of the night and then displayed a strong grappling game that his cousin โ who retired on 29-0 as the lightweight champion in 2020.
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Russian Military Helicopter Crews in Action in Ukraine
Crews of Russian Ka-52 and Mi-8AMTSh attack helicopters were filmed conducting airstrikes on strongholds and armored vehicles of the Ukrainian forces.
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Russian Military Helicopter Crews in Action in Ukraine
Crews of Russian Ka-52 and Mi-8AMTSh attack helicopters were filmed conducting airstrikes on strongholds and armored vehicles of the Ukrainian forces.
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Poll finds Sinn Fรฉin has more support than Fianna Fรกil/Fine Gael combined
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Sinn Fรฉin now has more support than Fine Gael and Fianna Fรกil put together, according to the latest opinion poll.
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Sinn Fรฉin now has more support than Fine Gael and Fianna Fรกil put together, according to the latest opinion poll.
Kerry finish strongly to beat Mayo and reach All-Ireland semi-finals
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Kerry will join Dublin in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-finals.
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Kerry will join Dublin in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-finals.
Worker harassed when colleague laughed at Jesus tattoo to receive โฌ15,000 compensation
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The Catholic Polish cleaner was harassed on the grounds of religion at work when a colleague made fun of his tattoo of Jesus
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The Catholic Polish cleaner was harassed on the grounds of religion at work when a colleague made fun of his tattoo of Jesus
Protest over Roe v Wade ruling held at US embassy in Dublin
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The crowd was told about how the US can learn from Irelandโs 2018 movement to repeal the Eighth Amendment and liberalise its abortion laws.
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The crowd was told about how the US can learn from Irelandโs 2018 movement to repeal the Eighth Amendment and liberalise its abortion laws.
โShall we take our clothes off?โ UK PM asks G7 leaders (VIDEO)
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Boris Johnson and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau joked about exposing their โpecs,โ in an apparent attempt to mock Vladimir Putin
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took the opportunity on Sunday to jokingly argue over whether they should undress, with Johnson saying that showing off his โpecsโ would make him appear โtougher than Putin.โ
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Boris Johnson and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau joked about exposing their โpecs,โ in an apparent attempt to mock Vladimir Putin
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took the opportunity on Sunday to jokingly argue over whether they should undress, with Johnson saying that showing off his โpecsโ would make him appear โtougher than Putin.โ
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British PM defuses anger over third term talk
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Boris Johnson has attempted to paint his mention of serving a third term as mere enthusiasm for the job
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson wasnโt seriously considering staying in office until โthe mid-2030sโ โ instead, he was merely focused on his โmassive agenda,โ he told alarmed colleagues on Sunday.
Johnson had made the controversial comments about serving a third term and leading his country into the 2030s from Rwanda on Saturday, less than a month after his party was pummeled in by-elections at home, leaving senior conservative politicians to believe he was joking.
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Boris Johnson has attempted to paint his mention of serving a third term as mere enthusiasm for the job
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson wasnโt seriously considering staying in office until โthe mid-2030sโ โ instead, he was merely focused on his โmassive agenda,โ he told alarmed colleagues on Sunday.
Johnson had made the controversial comments about serving a third term and leading his country into the 2030s from Rwanda on Saturday, less than a month after his party was pummeled in by-elections at home, leaving senior conservative politicians to believe he was joking.
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BBC staff told there are more than 150 genders โ media
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Whistleblowers allege a woke takeover of Britainโs national broadcaster
The BBC hired โtrans and nonbinary inclusionโ consultants to tell its staff that there are more than 150 genders and instruct them to police each otherโs use of gender pronouns, the Telegraph reported on Saturday.
According to the report, the BBC emailed its radio producers and program editors urging them to attend several training sessions last year organized by Global Butterflies, a group that describes i...
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Whistleblowers allege a woke takeover of Britainโs national broadcaster
The BBC hired โtrans and nonbinary inclusionโ consultants to tell its staff that there are more than 150 genders and instruct them to police each otherโs use of gender pronouns, the Telegraph reported on Saturday.
According to the report, the BBC emailed its radio producers and program editors urging them to attend several training sessions last year organized by Global Butterflies, a group that describes i...
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โFinancing: Chinaโs Long March
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China has a chance to transform the world for the better. Though it is no open goal, she should take it to take her place in the van not only of BRI but of the nations of the world, which is at her feet.
This article looks at the wider implications of NATOโs defeat in Ukraine and, in particular, how it has set the ne plus ultra to the march of the World Economic Forumโs Great Reset and thereby guaranteed the success of Chinaโs Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and so helped set the worldโs economic trajectory for the next century.
The article superimposes, for exemplary purposes, BRIโs spatial model on the Japanese logistics system, before analyzing how BRI can accommodate Taiwan, Japan and Korea, the three Asian spokes of Americaโs over stretched East Asian hub system. It then conducts a summary SWOT analysis and, crucially, concludes by outlining how the emerging financial system of China and allied countries can underpin all of this.
Though it is an ambitious exploratory piece, it helps lay out the parameters of BRIโs New World Order (NWO) and juxtapose it with the now redundant NWO plans of the WEF/NATO axis. This piece is, in sum, a prรฉcis of the economics of our next 100 years.
Sino-Japanese Spatial Networks
Japanโs transport system is an integrated network of trains and tunnels and the Japanese are, by far, the worldโs best tunnellers. Japan not only pioneered the bullet train but their vast rail networks remain at the center of their economic success. Put simply, the private companies which partly own those networks recoup profits by building shopping and other complexes around their lines. Theirs is a well thought out logistical system, which continues to reap dividends for all Japanโs stakeholders.
BRI must be similar. It must be well thought out from Papua New Guinea to Syria and it must bring benefits for all stakeholders, from the China Pakistan Economic Corridor and from the Solomon Islands to the Russian-Finnish border. It must, in essence, continue to evolve into a much larger and infinitely more complex but no more sophisticated extension of that Japanese system.
The Japanese merchant fleet adds up to approximately 120 million gross tonnage, making it one of the worldโs largest fleets. This superlative armada is, in essence, an extension of Japanโs domestic networks, forced on it by Americaโs earlier gunboat diplomacy. BRIโs must be no different. It must be a series of integrated networks that can move products at any juncture between the Solomon Islands and St Petersburg and from Joโburg to Shanghai whilst providing work, opportunities and increased living standards for all stakeholders along the way.
Although Chairman Maoโs iron rice bowl of womb to tomb security is no more, there must be, as there has been in China, not only cascading trickle down effects but the growth and consolidation of new hubs in Africa as much as in Asia. Thus, although Japan was up to recently...
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China has a chance to transform the world for the better. Though it is no open goal, she should take it to take her place in the van not only of BRI but of the nations of the world, which is at her feet.
This article looks at the wider implications of NATOโs defeat in Ukraine and, in particular, how it has set the ne plus ultra to the march of the World Economic Forumโs Great Reset and thereby guaranteed the success of Chinaโs Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and so helped set the worldโs economic trajectory for the next century.
The article superimposes, for exemplary purposes, BRIโs spatial model on the Japanese logistics system, before analyzing how BRI can accommodate Taiwan, Japan and Korea, the three Asian spokes of Americaโs over stretched East Asian hub system. It then conducts a summary SWOT analysis and, crucially, concludes by outlining how the emerging financial system of China and allied countries can underpin all of this.
Though it is an ambitious exploratory piece, it helps lay out the parameters of BRIโs New World Order (NWO) and juxtapose it with the now redundant NWO plans of the WEF/NATO axis. This piece is, in sum, a prรฉcis of the economics of our next 100 years.
Sino-Japanese Spatial Networks
Japanโs transport system is an integrated network of trains and tunnels and the Japanese are, by far, the worldโs best tunnellers. Japan not only pioneered the bullet train but their vast rail networks remain at the center of their economic success. Put simply, the private companies which partly own those networks recoup profits by building shopping and other complexes around their lines. Theirs is a well thought out logistical system, which continues to reap dividends for all Japanโs stakeholders.
BRI must be similar. It must be well thought out from Papua New Guinea to Syria and it must bring benefits for all stakeholders, from the China Pakistan Economic Corridor and from the Solomon Islands to the Russian-Finnish border. It must, in essence, continue to evolve into a much larger and infinitely more complex but no more sophisticated extension of that Japanese system.
The Japanese merchant fleet adds up to approximately 120 million gross tonnage, making it one of the worldโs largest fleets. This superlative armada is, in essence, an extension of Japanโs domestic networks, forced on it by Americaโs earlier gunboat diplomacy. BRIโs must be no different. It must be a series of integrated networks that can move products at any juncture between the Solomon Islands and St Petersburg and from Joโburg to Shanghai whilst providing work, opportunities and increased living standards for all stakeholders along the way.
Although Chairman Maoโs iron rice bowl of womb to tomb security is no more, there must be, as there has been in China, not only cascading trickle down effects but the growth and consolidation of new hubs in Africa as much as in Asia. Thus, although Japan was up to recently...
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Explain It to Me, Please
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If you want a war with Iran, Russia, China and Venezuela tell me why and how it would benefit Americans
By Philip GIRALDI
So Honest Joe Biden is now going to give another $1.2 billion to the Ukrainians on top of the sixty or so billion that is already in the pipeline, but whoโs counting, particularly as Congress refused to approve having an inspector general to monitor whose pockets will be lined. The money will be printed up without any collateral or โborrowedโ and the American taxpayer will somehow have to bear the burden of this latest folly that is ipso facto driving much of the world into recession. And it will no doubt be blamed on Vladimir Putin, a process that is already well under way from president mumbles. But you have to wonder why no one has told Joe that the whole exercise in pushing much of the world towards a catastrophic war is a foolโs errand. But then again, the clowns that the president has surrounded himself with might not be very big on speaking the truth even if they know what that means.
Having followed the Ukraine problem since the United States and its poodles refused to negotiate seriously with Vladimir Putin in the real world, I have had to wonder what is wrong with Washington. We have had the ignorant and impulsive Donald Trump supported by a cast of characters that included the mentally unstable Mike Pompeo and John Bolton followed by Biden with the usual bunch of Democratic Party rejects. By that I mean deep thinkers about social issues who would not be able to run a hot dog stand if that were what they were forced to do to make a living. But they are real good at shouting โfreedomโ and โdemocracyโ whenever questioned concerning their motives.
Indeed, opinion polls suggest that there is a great deal of unrest among middle and working class Americans who see a reversion to Jimmy Carter era financial instability, at that time caused by the oil embargo. Well, there is a new energy embargo in place brought about by the Biden Administrationโs desire to wage proxy war to โweakenโ Russia. Analysts predict that the costs for all forms of energy will double in the next several months and surging energy costs will impact the prices of other essentials, including food. Given all that, the fundamental issue plaguing both Democrats and Republicans is their inability to actually explain to the American people why the countryโs foreign and national security policy always seems to be on the boil, searching for enemies and also creating them when they do not exist, even when the results are damaging to the interests of actual Americans.
That a serious discussion of why the United States needs to have a military that costs as much as the next nine nations in that ranking combined is long overdue and rarely addressed outside the alternative media. The 2023 military budget has been increased from this yearโs, totaling $858 billion, and, if one includes the constantly growing largesse to Ukraine, approaching a hitherto unimaginable trillion dollars. The military budget has become a major driver of the countryโs unsustainable deficits. The deaths of millions of people directly and indirectly in the wars started in 9/11 aside, the wars of choice have cost an estimated $8 trillion.
The Constitution of the United States makes it clear that a national army was only acceptable to the Founders when it was dedicated to defending the country from foreign threats. Do Americans really believe that bearing the burden of having something like 1,000 military bases scattered around the world really makes them safer? The recent rapid collapse of the security situation in Afghanistan suggests that having such bases turns soldiers and bureaucrats into potential hostages and is therefore a liability. One might also suggest th...
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If you want a war with Iran, Russia, China and Venezuela tell me why and how it would benefit Americans
By Philip GIRALDI
So Honest Joe Biden is now going to give another $1.2 billion to the Ukrainians on top of the sixty or so billion that is already in the pipeline, but whoโs counting, particularly as Congress refused to approve having an inspector general to monitor whose pockets will be lined. The money will be printed up without any collateral or โborrowedโ and the American taxpayer will somehow have to bear the burden of this latest folly that is ipso facto driving much of the world into recession. And it will no doubt be blamed on Vladimir Putin, a process that is already well under way from president mumbles. But you have to wonder why no one has told Joe that the whole exercise in pushing much of the world towards a catastrophic war is a foolโs errand. But then again, the clowns that the president has surrounded himself with might not be very big on speaking the truth even if they know what that means.
Having followed the Ukraine problem since the United States and its poodles refused to negotiate seriously with Vladimir Putin in the real world, I have had to wonder what is wrong with Washington. We have had the ignorant and impulsive Donald Trump supported by a cast of characters that included the mentally unstable Mike Pompeo and John Bolton followed by Biden with the usual bunch of Democratic Party rejects. By that I mean deep thinkers about social issues who would not be able to run a hot dog stand if that were what they were forced to do to make a living. But they are real good at shouting โfreedomโ and โdemocracyโ whenever questioned concerning their motives.
Indeed, opinion polls suggest that there is a great deal of unrest among middle and working class Americans who see a reversion to Jimmy Carter era financial instability, at that time caused by the oil embargo. Well, there is a new energy embargo in place brought about by the Biden Administrationโs desire to wage proxy war to โweakenโ Russia. Analysts predict that the costs for all forms of energy will double in the next several months and surging energy costs will impact the prices of other essentials, including food. Given all that, the fundamental issue plaguing both Democrats and Republicans is their inability to actually explain to the American people why the countryโs foreign and national security policy always seems to be on the boil, searching for enemies and also creating them when they do not exist, even when the results are damaging to the interests of actual Americans.
That a serious discussion of why the United States needs to have a military that costs as much as the next nine nations in that ranking combined is long overdue and rarely addressed outside the alternative media. The 2023 military budget has been increased from this yearโs, totaling $858 billion, and, if one includes the constantly growing largesse to Ukraine, approaching a hitherto unimaginable trillion dollars. The military budget has become a major driver of the countryโs unsustainable deficits. The deaths of millions of people directly and indirectly in the wars started in 9/11 aside, the wars of choice have cost an estimated $8 trillion.
The Constitution of the United States makes it clear that a national army was only acceptable to the Founders when it was dedicated to defending the country from foreign threats. Do Americans really believe that bearing the burden of having something like 1,000 military bases scattered around the world really makes them safer? The recent rapid collapse of the security situation in Afghanistan suggests that having such bases turns soldiers and bureaucrats into potential hostages and is therefore a liability. One might also suggest th...
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โWestern Officials Admit Ukraine Is Crawling With CIA Personnel
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By Caitlin JOHNSTONE
The New York Times reports that Ukraine is crawling with special forces and spies from the US and its allies, which would seem to contradict earlier reports that the US intelligence cartel is having trouble getting intel about whatโs happening on the ground in Ukraine.
This would also, obviously, put the final nail in the coffin of the claim that this is not a US proxy war.
In an article titled โCommando Network Coordinates Flow of Weapons in Ukraine, Officials Say,โ anonymous western officials inform us of the following through their stenographers at The New York Times:
As Russian troops press ahead with a grinding campaign to seize eastern Ukraine, the nationโs ability to resist the onslaught depends more than ever on help from the United States and its allies โ including a stealthy network of commandos and spies rushing to provide weapons, intelligence and training, according to U.S. and European officials.
Much of this work happens outside Ukraine, at bases in Germany, France and Britain, for example. But even as the Biden administration has declared it will not deploy American troops to Ukraine, some C.I.A. personnel have continued to operate in the country secretly, mostly in the capital, Kyiv, directing much of the massive amounts of intelligence the United States is sharing with Ukrainian forces, according to current and former officials.
At the same time, a few dozen commandos from other NATO countries, including Britain, France, Canada and Lithuania, also have been working inside Ukraine.
The revelation that the CIA and US special forces are conducting military operations in Ukraine does indeed make a lie of the Biden administrationโs insistence at the start of the war that there would be no American boots on the ground in Ukraine, and the admission that NATO powers are so involved in operations against a nuclear superpower means we are closer to seeing a nuclear exchange than anyone should be comfortable with.
This news should surprise no one who knows anything about the usual behavior of the US intelligence cartel, but interestingly it contradicts something we were told by the same New York Times not three weeks ago.
โAmerican intelligence agencies have less information than they would like about Ukraineโs operations and possess a far better picture of Russiaโs military, its planned operations and its successes and failures,โ NYT told us earlier this month. โU.S. officials said the Ukrainian government gave them few classified briefings or details about their operational plans, and Ukrainian officials acknowledged that they did not tell the Americans everything.โ
It seems a bit unlikely that US intelligence agencies would have a hard time getting information about whatโs happening in a country where they themselves are physically located. Moon of Alabama theorized at the time that this ridiculous โWe donโt know whatโs happening in our own proxy warโ line was being pushed to give the US plausible deniability about Ukraineโs failures on the battlefield, which...
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By Caitlin JOHNSTONE
The New York Times reports that Ukraine is crawling with special forces and spies from the US and its allies, which would seem to contradict earlier reports that the US intelligence cartel is having trouble getting intel about whatโs happening on the ground in Ukraine.
This would also, obviously, put the final nail in the coffin of the claim that this is not a US proxy war.
In an article titled โCommando Network Coordinates Flow of Weapons in Ukraine, Officials Say,โ anonymous western officials inform us of the following through their stenographers at The New York Times:
As Russian troops press ahead with a grinding campaign to seize eastern Ukraine, the nationโs ability to resist the onslaught depends more than ever on help from the United States and its allies โ including a stealthy network of commandos and spies rushing to provide weapons, intelligence and training, according to U.S. and European officials.
Much of this work happens outside Ukraine, at bases in Germany, France and Britain, for example. But even as the Biden administration has declared it will not deploy American troops to Ukraine, some C.I.A. personnel have continued to operate in the country secretly, mostly in the capital, Kyiv, directing much of the massive amounts of intelligence the United States is sharing with Ukrainian forces, according to current and former officials.
At the same time, a few dozen commandos from other NATO countries, including Britain, France, Canada and Lithuania, also have been working inside Ukraine.
The revelation that the CIA and US special forces are conducting military operations in Ukraine does indeed make a lie of the Biden administrationโs insistence at the start of the war that there would be no American boots on the ground in Ukraine, and the admission that NATO powers are so involved in operations against a nuclear superpower means we are closer to seeing a nuclear exchange than anyone should be comfortable with.
This news should surprise no one who knows anything about the usual behavior of the US intelligence cartel, but interestingly it contradicts something we were told by the same New York Times not three weeks ago.
โAmerican intelligence agencies have less information than they would like about Ukraineโs operations and possess a far better picture of Russiaโs military, its planned operations and its successes and failures,โ NYT told us earlier this month. โU.S. officials said the Ukrainian government gave them few classified briefings or details about their operational plans, and Ukrainian officials acknowledged that they did not tell the Americans everything.โ
It seems a bit unlikely that US intelligence agencies would have a hard time getting information about whatโs happening in a country where they themselves are physically located. Moon of Alabama theorized at the time that this ridiculous โWe donโt know whatโs happening in our own proxy warโ line was being pushed to give the US plausible deniability about Ukraineโs failures on the battlefield, which...
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Nigerian couple charged with plotting to get child to UK to harvest organs
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On Thursday, a Nigerian politician and his wife were charged in London for plotting to have a 15-year-old boy brought into the United Kingdom to ha
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Greta Thunberg makes surprise appearance at Glastonbury festival
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The 19-year-old climate activist, Greta Thunberg made a surprise appearance at the Glastonbury festival, with a warning regarding a potential รขยยtota
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The 19-year-old climate activist, Greta Thunberg made a surprise appearance at the Glastonbury festival, with a warning regarding a potential รขยยtota
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Fresh transport strikes hit UK and Europe
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Flights in Europe are disrupted and Britain's railway system has once again
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Flights in Europe are disrupted and Britain's railway system has once again
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Top 10 world news: G7 nations to announce ban on import of new Russian gold, and more
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One person was killed and several were injured after a Russian missile strike hit Kyiv.ร United States said that the Group of Seven
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One person was killed and several were injured after a Russian missile strike hit Kyiv.ร United States said that the Group of Seven
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