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Ethereum price analysis: ETH slowly retests $2,025, retrace incoming next week?
Cryptopolitan 14 Aug 2022
Ethereum price analysis is bearish today as we have seen a failure to move any higher after a brief test of the previous high. Therefore, ETH/USD is likely ready to reverse and start heading back lower early next week. Cryptocurrency heat map. Source.. The market traded with mixed results over the last 24 hours ... ETH/USD 4-hour chart ... Source. TradingView.
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South Korean president makes ‘audacious’ offer to North Korea in Liberation Day speech
Stars and Stripes 15 Aug 2022
CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — South Korea will provide economic incentives to North Korea if it halts its nuclear program, South Korean President Yoon Seok Youl said in the annual Liberation Day speech on Monday ... The two nations, though regional partners through the United States, sometimes clash over leftover historic issues ... .
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Russian Forces Shell Eastern, Southern Ukraine
Voa News 15 Aug 2022
Ukraine’s military reported Monday heavy shelling by Russian forces in the eastern Donbas region, as well as in areas in southern Ukraine, including towns around Kherson and Mykolaiv. The report from the General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces also cited tank fire and aerial attacks in towns to the east and south of Zaporizhzhia ... Grain shipments ... .
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Angry China stages more drills near Taiwan as U.S. lawmakers visit
FX Empire 15 Aug 2022photo: Creative Commons / Fronteiras do Pensamento https://www.flickr.com/people/61838152@N06
Iran’s IRGC had contact with man charged with stabbing Rushdie - report
The Jerusalem Post 14 Aug 2022
The suspect arrested for stabbing prominent author Salman Rushdie, Hadi Matar, had been in contact with the US-designated terrorist organization, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), prior to the nearly lethal assault on the writer, news organization VICE reported on Sunday ... console.log("BODY1. CatId is."+catID);if(catID == 69 . ... .
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Putin says Russia and North Korea will expand bilateral relations - KCNA
Asahi News 15 Aug 2022
SEOUL--Russian President Vladimir Putin told North Korean leader Kim Jong Un the two countries will "expand the comprehensive and constructive bilateral relations with common efforts," Pyongyang's state media reported on Monday ... .
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Mexico flies hundreds of troops to Tijuana after wave of gang attacks
Daily Bulletin 14 Aug 2022
Hundreds of Mexican military troops were flown into Tijuana on Saturday to beef up street patrols after armed gangs hijacked and burned at least a dozen vehicles in the border city, the latest in a wave of attacks hitting civilians across the country. U.S ... Tijuana is home to the San Ysidro-El Chaparral ports of entry, the busiest U.S. border crossing.
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Somalia says 13 suspected terrorists killed in US air strike
The Charlotte Observer 15 Aug 2022
A U.S. air strike killed 13 members of the al-Shabab Islamist terrorist group in the Hiiran region of central Somalia on Sunday, state-owned national television reported, citing Somali army officials.
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'Rust' shooting not possible without Alec Baldwin pulling trigger, FBI concludes
Gulf Daily News 15 Aug 2022
The Federal Bureau of Investigation concluded that the firearm that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie 'Rust' could not have fired "without a pull of the trigger while the working internal components were intact and functional." ... .
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Letter from Africa: How racism haunts black people in Italy
BBC News 15 Aug 2022
In our series of letters from African journalists, Ismail Einashe writes that many black people in Italy feel that racism is not taken seriously. For Italian-Eritrean filmmaker and podcaster Ariam Tekle, there is no doubt that the recent killing of a disabled Nigerian street vendor, Alika Ogorchukwu, in Italy was a "racist murder" ... .
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Iran denies involvement but justifies Salman Rushdie attack
The Hill 15 Aug 2022
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian government official denied on Monday that Tehran was involved in the assault on author Salman Rushdie, though he justified the stabbing in remarks that represented the Islamic Republic’s first public comments on the attack ... Rushdie was likely to lose the injured eye ... U.S ... “This is despicable.” ... ___ ... .
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Scott Morrison faces probe over secret ministry claims as government seeks legal advice
The Observer 15 Aug 2022
Scott Morrison has dismissed questions about reports alleging he secretly appointed himself to numerous ministry roles during his time as prime minister, saying he hasn’t “engaged in any day-to-day politics” since losing the May election ... The secrecy factor is telling in Scott Morrison’s alleged ministerial portfolio grabs . Malcolm Farr. Read more ... .
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Despite climate, war and Covid, is everything actually … getting better?
The Observer 14 Aug 2022
Reading and watching the media over the past year, you might be forgiven for thinking that we are facing the collapse of civilisation ... In the face of these threats, it may be hard to maintain a rose-tinted view of the future – unless, that is, you are the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker ... The Covid-19 pandemic is the obvious place to start ... .
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Do Potatoes Increase the Risk of Diabetes?
The Epoch Times 14 Aug 2022photo: AP / Vahid Salemi
US “Breaking Bread” with the Enemy?
FX Empire 15 Aug 2022
The “Axis of Evil” – a term coined by former US President George W. Bush in 2002, referring to Iran, Iraq, and North Korea as countries that engaged in terrorism activities and pursued “weapons of mass destruction”. However, US-Iran relations were soured long before the (second) Bush administration ... Oil Goliath with an Achilles heel ... Advertisement ... .