Day: May 16, 2022
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Biden’s visit to racist massacre site will highlight US divisions
[ad_1] US President Joe Biden has promised to unite Americans amid a rise in extremism – Copyright AFP Anwar AMRO Sebastian Smith When President Joe Biden visits the site of a racist massacre in upstate New York on Tuesday, he’ll confront not only the shocking deaths of 10 Black people but a growing sense that…
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Twitter defends anti-bot efforts, Musk replies with poo emoji
[ad_1] Financial analysts suspect that Elon Musk’s laments about automated ‘bots’ running Twitter accounts is a ploy to lower the price tag of the $44 billion deal or justify walking away. – Copyright AFP – Twitter’s chief on Monday defended the messaging platform’s battle against “bots” that aspiring buyer Elon Musk says vex the platform,…
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Twitter defends anti-bot efforts, Musk replies with poo emoji
[ad_1] Financial analysts suspect that Elon Musk’s laments about automated ‘bots’ running Twitter accounts is a ploy to lower the price tag of the $44 billion deal or justify walking away. – Copyright AFP – Twitter’s chief on Monday defended the messaging platform’s battle against “bots” that aspiring buyer Elon Musk says vex the platform,…
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Chatting with Lindsay Arnold: Allie Horton on ‘Days of Our Lives’
[ad_1] Lindsay Arnold. Photo Courtesy of NBC Lindsay Arnold, who plays Allie Horton on the NBC daytime drama “Days of Our Lives,” chatted about her 2022 Daytime Emmy nomination for “Outstanding Younger Performer in a Drama Series.” 2022 Emmy nod On scoring an Emmy nod, Arnold remarked, “It felt really great. I was really excited.…
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Putin warns Finland, Sweden over NATO as Ukraine braces for eastern assault
[ad_1] Soldiers of the Kraken Ukrainian special forces unit talk to a man at a destroyed bridge on the road near the village of Rus’ka Lozova, north of Kharkiv, on May 16, 2022 – Copyright AFP Anwar AMRO David STOUT with Dmitry ZAKS in Lysychansk and Elias HUUHTANEN in Helsinki President Vladimir Putin said on…
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Op-Ed: The stench of American racism – Buffalo shootings show how accepted racism is in US society
[ad_1] A white gunman, bent on killing African Americans, shot 10 people dead and wounded three others at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York – Copyright AFP Anwar AMRO Fanaticism is now a flavor of America. You gotta be rabid, doesn’t matter who or what is the subject. The polarization is so severe that any…
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Biden announces new plan to ease housing shortage, lower costs
[ad_1] The White House plan will encourage state and local authorities to allow more housing density to help reduc costs that are a big factor in rising inflation – Copyright AFP – Faced with a shortage of homes that has driven up prices and rents, President Joe Biden’s White House on Monday unveiled a plan…
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Chinese immigrant attacked US church over ‘hatred of Taiwan’: probe
[ad_1] A Chinese immigrant is being held on suspicion of murder after one person died and five others were hurt in a shooting at a California church – Copyright AFP Anwar AMRO A Chinese immigrant who padlocked a church and opened fire on its Taiwanese-American congregation, killing one person and injuring five others, was motivated…
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US shooter embraced racist ‘replacement’ theory online
[ad_1] A white gunman, bent on killing African Americans, shot 10 people dead and wounded three others at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York – Copyright AFP Anwar AMRO Paul HANDLEY The teenager charged with shooting dead 10 African Americans at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York followed an insidious racist creed gaining ground among…
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Novel fungus can help clean-up harmful toxins
[ad_1] Saudi Aramco is billed as the largest oil producing company in the world – Copyright AFP Yasuyoshi CHIBA A research team have discovered that a fungus that is common in polluted water produces environmentally important minerals as it reproduces. By utilizing this, scientists can develop a mineral that can be used to clean-up toxic…