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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 ... Meanwhile, one of the top altcoins, Dogecoin, was among the day’s top performers, with almost a 6 percent gain ... in a dominance of 20.57 percent.
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Cristiano Ronaldo: Chelsea backed for summer transfer as deadline approaches
Sporting Life 16 Aug 2022
Chelsea have been backed into 3/1 second-favourites to sign Cristiano Ronaldo before the conclusion of the transfer window ... The Blues were linked with a move for the United forward at the beginning of July - although talk related to that potential transfer went quiet as the season approached ... We are committed in our support of safer gambling.
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Between a dam and two autocrats: Biden's GERD dilemma
The New Arab 16 Aug 2022
for a lavish fee of $65k a month, Royce would lobby congress and the White House to support Egypt in Cairo’s attempts to throttle Ethiopia’s divisive dam project on the Nile. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), once filled, will be the largest water reservoir in Ethiopia, holding volumes of up to 74 square kilometres.
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Zelensky warns Zaporizhzhia 'catastrophe' would threaten whole of Europe
Khaleejtimes 16 Aug 2022
A "catastrophe" at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine would threaten the whole of Europe, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Monday. "Under the cover of the plant, the occupiers are shelling nearby cities and communities," Zelensky said in his evening address.
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Over 2 billion would die in an India-Pakistan nuclear conflict. 5 billion in a US-China one, study finds
South China Morning Post 16 Aug 2022
Tens of millions of immediate fatalities in the war zone would be followed by hundreds of millions of starvation deaths around the globe in the months and years that followed, an international study led by Rutgers University scientists found ... .
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Reports Say Russian Ammunition Depot in Northern Crimea Hit By Explosion; Residents Being Evacuated
Radio Free Europe 16 Aug 2022photo: AP / Taiwan Presidential Office
China sanctions seven top Taiwanese officials after 2nd US Congressional delegation’s visit to Taipei
Financial Express 16 Aug 2022
Also Last week, Lithuanian Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications Agne Vaiciukeviciute visited Taiwan. Lithuania is part of the European Union ... After Pelosi’s visit, China is concerned that there will be a flurry of visits by top officials from the US and allied countries to the self-ruled Island.
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Putin blasts US 'hegemony,' predicts end to 'unipolar' world
Stars and Stripes 16 Aug 2022
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States of trying to encourage extended hostilities in Ukraine as part of what he described Tuesday as Washington's alleged efforts to maintain its global hegemony ... House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, charging that both were part of an alleged American attempt to foment global instability.
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Brazil’s presidential campaign launches amid fears of violence and upheaval
The Guardian 16 Aug 2022
... of political violence on the campaign trail and possible turmoil before and after the October ballots.
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Kenya on edge as election outcome sparks protests
Eye Witness News 16 Aug 2022
After an anxious days-long wait for the results of the August 9 poll, Deputy President William Ruto was declared the winner, beating his rival Raila Odinga by a narrow margin after a largely peaceful voting process ... .
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‘No use worrying’: Taiwanese tourists carry on despite China threat
Manila Standard 16 Aug 2022
Visiting Taiwan’s tiny Kinmen Islands last week, Joseph Lin practised standing up on his paddleboard, drifting across from the Chinese city of Xiamen, where days earlier fighter jets had screamed overhead ... But even amid the flurry of military activity, tourism in Kinmen continues ... ‘Use of force’.
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US Carries Out Missile Test Delayed Over Chinese Drills
Voa News 16 Aug 2022
The United States military on Tuesday said it carried out a test of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile that had been delayed to avoid escalating tensions with Beijing during China's show of force near Taiwan earlier this month. China deployed scores of planes and fired live missiles in the Taiwan Strait after U.S.
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Al-Qaida Affiliate Claims It Killed Four Russian Mercenaries in Mali
Voa News 16 Aug 2022photo: Creative Commons / Lobo
Low-calorie sweetener can also improve gut health: Study
The Siasat Daily 16 Aug 2022
The study was published in the journal, ‘Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry’ ... However, while they’re considered safe for human consumption, studies in animals and humans suggest that some of them can stimulate appetite, leading to increased food consumption and weight gain, as well as other negative health outcomes.
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Papua New Guinea fails to end ‘evil’ of sorcery-related violence
Al Jazeera 16 Aug 2022
Reports of machete-wielding men slashing innocent bystanders, arson attacks, sexual violence against girls, and the displacement of thousands of people during last month’s election in Papua New Guinea have drawn international condemnation. But an even more insidious form of violence continues to plague the country.