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Chile sinkhole grows large enough to swallow France's Arc de Triomphe
Yahoo Daily News 08 Aug 2022
(Reuters) - A sinkhole in Chile has doubled in size, growing large enough to engulf France's Arc de Triomphe and prompting officials to order work to stop at a nearby copper mine ... Local officials have expressed worry that the Alcaparrosa mine could have flooded below ground, destabilizing the surrounding land.
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Daniel A. Barker
Lessons from Ukraine: Chinese marines need better air defence capabilities, magazine says
South China Morning Post 08 Aug 2022photo: AP / Ng Han Guan
China extends military exercises around Taiwan in retaliation against Pelosi’s visit
The Los Angeles Times 08 Aug 2022
BEIJING — . China said Monday that it was extending its threatening military exercises surrounding Taiwan, which have disrupted shipping and air traffic and substantially raised concerns about the potential for conflict in a region crucial to global trade. The extended exercises would include anti-submarine drills, apparently targeting U.S.
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Russia, Ukraine trade blame for strike on nuclear plant
Dawn 07 Aug 2022
MOSCOW/KYIV. Moscow and Kyiv on Sunday blamed each other for a new strike on the Zaporizhzhia atomic power plant, where recent fighting sparked a UN warning of a potential nuclear disaster ... The strike damaged some administrative buildings and fell in a “zone storing used nuclear fuel” ... “Yesterday ... “One... More grain sets sail ... Amnesty regrets report ... .
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Attack on Ukraine nuclear plant ‘suicidal’, says UN chief as he urges access to site
The Observer 08 Aug 2022
UN secretary general António Guterres has called for international inspectors to be given access to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after Ukraine and Russia traded accusations over the shelling of Europe’s largest atomic plant at the weekend ... Guterres said the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) needed access to the plant ... Read more ... 5 ... .
photo: AP / Fernando Vergara
Gustavo Petro: Ex-rebel fighter sworn in as Colombia’s president
Al Jazeera 08 Aug 2022
Gustavo Petro, a former rebel fighter, has been sworn in as Colombia’s first left-wing president ... Armed groups should accept that deal, Petro said ... Their cabinet includes an internationally renowned professor, Jose Antonio Ocampo, as finance minister and an academic who researches the negative impacts of industries as minister for mining ... .
photo: AP / Ebrahim Noroozi
A year on, Afghans hide out fearing death by data
Khaleejtimes 08 Aug 2022
Sadaf was at work last year, at the Attorney General's office in suburban Kabul, when her sister rang with news that the Taliban had entered the Afghan capital, begging her to race home. "Cover your face! And don't tell anyone where you work," her sister had said, her voice shaking with fear ... Outside was chaos ... Digital danger ... ALSO READ ... Photo. Reuters ... .
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More than 18,000 people crossed the English Channel in small boats this year
South China Morning Post 08 Aug 2022
Figures show that 12,840 people have made the crossing since the deal with Rwanda in April, in which asylum seekers are sent to the east African country to have their applications processed ... .
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Pelosi’s ‘reckless’ Taiwan visit deepens US-China rupture – why did she go?
The Observer 07 Aug 2022
Roy Blunt lived up his surname when he said this week. “So I’m about to use four words in a row that I haven’t used in this way before, and those four words are. ‘Speaker Pelosi was right.’”. The Republican senator was praising Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, the first by a speaker of the US House of Representatives in a quarter of a century ... “Yes ... .
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Vanuatu takes Pro-China Stance Calling Taiwan an ‘Inalienable Part of China’
The Epoch Times 08 Aug 2022
The government of Pacific nation Vanuatu has thrown its support behind the One China policy following U.S ... On Aug.
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Are Bangladesh Fuel Prices Hike a Signal of an Ongoing Economic Crisis?
News18 08 Aug 2022
Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka witnessed long queues outside petrol ...
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Second world war bomb discovered in Italy’s dried-up river Po
The Guardian 08 Aug 2022
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Even in exile, Thailand’s former leader Thaksin Shinawatra tries to sway redshirts in bid to oust Prayuth...
South China Morning Post 08 Aug 2022
Thaksin Shinawatra, from his base in Dubai, has ...
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Air Canada Denying Passenger Compensation Claims for Staff Shortages, Citing Safety
The Epoch Times 08 Aug 2022photo: US Navy / Lt. Rebecca Rebarich
Nuclear apocalypse was postponed in 1968. Now it’s back on the agenda
The Observer 07 Aug 2022
A crucial event for the future of international peace and security – and global sanity – got under way at UN headquarters in New York last week, though, given the lack of political and media attention, you might be forgiven for not noticing ... Few international agreements enjoy such near universal support ... “Another” is the operative word ... It went on ... .