From poverty to power, new California Speaker seeks Democratic caucus unity but offers few details
California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas has assumed one of the most influential political offices this month.
Day: July 9, 2023
🔴Live: Zelensky enrages Russia by bringing home Azovstal commanders from Turkey
President Volodymyr Zelensky brought home from Turkey on Saturday five former commanders of Ukraine’s garrison in Mariupol, a highly symbolic achievement that Russia said violated a prisoner exchange deal engineered last year. Read our live blog to se…
G20 – 4th Space Economy Leaders Meet (SELM) Concludes on a high note
By R. Anil Kumar Continuing the tradition of previous editions of Space Economy Leaders Meeting (SELM), by Saudi Space Commission (2020), Italian Space Agency (2021) and National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia (2022), Indian Space Research O…
How To Get More Followers On Threads App
Threads is a new social media app by Instagram. As the app was recently launched, it has a user base of few people. That said, there are not as many creators on Threads, because of which fewer posts go live on the platform. With fewer users, it is easy…
France protesters defy bans to rally against police violence
Thousands of protesters defied a ban to march in memory of Adama Traore, a young black man who died in police custody in 2016. Traore’s sister organised the annual commemorative march near Paris, but the courts banned the event amid fears of further un…
Sources: banking lobby group UK Finance claims 61% of all reported authorized push payment fraud by volume go through Meta platforms; ~£485M was stolen in 2022 (Financial Times)
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Sources: banking lobby group UK Finance claims 61% of all reported authorized push payment fraud by volume go through Meta platforms; ~£485M was stolen in 2022 — UK Finance presses ministers to force tech comp…
English teaching unions to strike during Tory conference if pay deal rejected
Action could be directed at Rishi Sunak’s keynote speech, seen as vital in run-up to general election campaignTeachers are preparing to target Rishi Sunak’s make-or-break Tory conference speech with strike action this autumn, amid growing cabinet suppo…
‘It’s like a hostile environment’: London’s creative core at risk as artists in poverty quit
UK capital as ‘huge generator of wealth’ under threat as a third of visual artists struggle to pay for studiosWhat makes Britain’s capital city so magnetic? Familiar landmarks? The nightlife? Or its financial, fashion and art trades? Maybe. But behind …
Ukraine pushes to reclaim Bakhmut fighting on fallen city’s flanks
Ukrainian soldiers are fighting to reclaim the captured city in the eastern Donetsk region, and reverse Russia’s one significant territorial gain in the war this year.
‘Why did this happen?’: Israel’s raid on Jenin, through the eyes of one family
For families in the Jenin refugee camp, last week’s Israeli military operation was 44 hours of terror. Few suffered the range of horrors endured by the Shiblys.