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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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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 37-year-old has been targeting a move away from Old Trafford after they failed to secure Champions League football for the 2022/23 season ... Cristiano Ronaldo - to sign for before 3rd September (via Sky Bet) ... Safer gambling ... .
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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 ... ALSO READ.
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Between a dam and two autocrats: Biden's GERD dilemma
The New Arab 16 Aug 2022
Not long after Joe Biden clinched the White House, Egypt's ambassador to Washington dialled up ex-congressman, Ed Royce, who fronts the US legal Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. The task was straightforward ... It sits on the Blue Nile ... Cairo fears that the Nile’s waters, the lifeline of its economy and statehood, will dwindle in the future ... Podcast ... ....
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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
China on Tuesday announced sanctions on seven alleged independence “die-hard” Taiwanese politicians and officials, including Taipei’s representative to Washington, amid concerns over the increasing visits by foreign dignitaries to the self-ruled island claimed by Beijing ... Lithuania is part of the European Union ... India @ 75 ... .
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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. This picture taken on August 10, 2022 shows tourist Joseph Lin posing for a photo on the Kinmen islands ... AFP ... Life goes on ... ....
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Brazil’s presidential campaign launches amid fears of violence and upheaval
The Guardian 16 Aug 2022
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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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Al-Qaida Affiliate Claims It Killed Four Russian Mercenaries in Mali
Voa News 16 Aug 2022photo: AP / Frank Augstein
CIA sued over alleged surveillance of lawyers, journalists who met Assange
Anadolu Agency 16 Aug 2022
A group of journalists and lawyers have sued the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and its former director, Mike Pompeo, over allegations that they were placed under surveillance when they met WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during his stay at Ecuador’s embassy in London. .
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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 ... The others had already died ... .
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Putin boasts of Russian weapons prowess, says Moscow is ready to share it with allies
FX Empire 15 Aug 2022
LONDON (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Moscow valued its ties with countries in Latin American, Asia and Africa and was ready to offer modern weapons to its allies ... “Almost all of them have been used more than once in real combat operations.” ... Advertisement ... Sign Up ... Loading ... ....
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Chinese internet giants hand algorithm data to government
BBC News 16 Aug 2022
Chinese internet giants including Alibaba, Tiktok-owner ByteDance and Tencent have shared details of their algorithms with China's regulators for the first time. Algorithms decide what users see and the order they see it in - and are critical to driving the growth of social media platforms. They are closely guarded by companies ... Related Topics ... .