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Ukraine PM says 'don't jump to conclusions' after submitting resignation letter

Ukraine’s Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk said people should not “jump to conclusions” after submitting a letter of resignation, which President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s

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Australian tourism industry seeks urgent help as cost of bushfires grows

Australia’s peak tourism body estimated the country’s bushfire crisis has so far cost the industry almost A$1 billion ($690 million) and called for urgent help from the

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Marijuana delivery giant Eaze may go up in smoke

The first cannabis startup to raise big money in Silicon Valley is in danger of burning out. TechCrunch has learned that pot delivery middleman Eaze has seen unannounced layoffs, and its depleted cas

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Mass surveillance for national security does conflict with EU privacy rights, court advisor suggests

Mass surveillance regimes in the UK, Belgium and France which require bulk collection of digital data for a national security purpose may be at least partially in breach of fundamental privacy rights

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Report: Russian prime minister submits resignation to Putin

The Tass news agency reports that Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev submitted his resignation to President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday.Russian news agencies said P

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Reading Ted Chiang’s ‘The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate’

What would we do if we could visit our own pasts or futures? Are we more likely to change our timelines, or will our timelines actually project themselves back on to us more forcefully?This is the fir

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Travel aggregator Omio hops over the pond to launch in North America

Travel aggregator platform Omio, which operates a multimodal transport planning and booking platform for intercity and long distance tips, has hopped over the pond to launch in North America — i

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'Unforgivable Error': Iran Vows to Punish All Those Responsible for Deadly Boeing 737 Crash

Earlier this week, Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, the commander of the Iranian Armed Forces' Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), apologised for unintentionally downing

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Climate change protests stretch to London as Australia bushfires rage

Thousands of Australians took to the streets on Friday to protest against government inaction on climate change, as bushfires ravaged tens of thousands of square miles

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Instagram’s Boomerang evolves with SloMo, Echo, & Duo effects

Nearly five years after launching, Instagram’s back-and-forth video loop maker Boomerang is finally getting a big update. Users will now be able to add SlowMo, motion, “Echo” blurrin

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Japan minister launches counterattack after Ghosn blasts justice system

Japan’s justice minister launched a rare and forceful public takedown of auto executive-turned-fugitive Carlos Ghosn after he blasted the country’s legal system as allo

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UK Evacuation Team Sent to Iraq Amid Concerns Over Iranian Revenge for Soleimani's Killing – Report

Late last week, around 50 members of the UK’s Special Air Service (SAS) were reportedly flown to Iraq in the aftermath of the US assassination of Iran’s Revolutionary G

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Japan in principle could press Lebanon to extradite ex-Nissan boss Ghosn: Japan minister

Japan on Monday said it could still press Lebanon to extradite Carlos Ghosn, after the former Nissan Motor boss skipped bail to become a fugitive in a country that norm

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Australia fires: death toll rises and six people missing as PM calls in military

Two more bushfire deaths on Kangaroo Island, in remote South Australia, have brought to 23 the number of people killed in fires across Australia this fire season, with

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Iran not heading to war but not afraid of conflict: military commander

A top Iranian commander said on Thursday that Iran was not moving toward a war but was not afraid of any conflict, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported after U