China has expanded its ban on the use of  iPhones ban to local governments and state-owned firms. China has a number of its own cell phone brands, like Huawei and Xiaomi, but none of them are quite as prestigious (or expensive) as Apple, which provides access to some applications not availbable elesewhere. Central ministries and […]

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Texas has been told it must move the line of floating buoys and underwater nets that it placed in the middle of the Rio Grande River to stop would-be migrants from crossing into the US from Mexico.   BREAKING: a federal judge has ordered Gov Abbott to remove his border buoy death trap from the […]

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A murderer made a brazen escape from a suburban Philadelphia jail yard by scaling a wall, climbing over razor wire and jumping from a roof in a breakout that wasn’t detected by guards for a full hour, authorities said Wednesday as the killer eluded a widening manhunt for a seventh day. See video of Danelo […]

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Beijing has lashed back at the US’s designation of China for illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, as “a complete political manipulation” and pointed out that US fishing vessels are also responsible for overfishing tuna and other violations. Last week the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its 2023 Report to Congress on Improving […]

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Hurricane Lee is expected to get a great deal stronger in the record warm waters of the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday and will likely become a major storm by early Friday, according to the National Hurricane Center, however it may miss the Caribbean. That’s the latest news from the expert forecasters. The Category 1 storm, […]

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Mexico’s supreme court has decriminalised abortion nationwide. It ruled that criminal penalties for terminating pregnancies were unconstitutional. The judgement comes two years after the court ruled in favour of a challenge to the existing law in the northern state of Coahuila. Mexico’s states and the federal government had since been slow to repeal penal codes. […]

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The G20 summit has started this week in Delhi, India. The G20 countries represent 85% of the world’s ecoomy and two-thirds of its population, so it should be pretty influential, right? But the truth is that with the world so divided over issues like the war in Ukraine, making economic agreements is not so easy, […]

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In spite of efforts to discourage migrants from making the perilous Darien crossing from South America to Panama on foot, huge numbers are making the trip anyway, even if they are sick, injured, pregnant, or traveling with small children. The horrors of crossing through the Darién Gap are well known. People face robberies, assaults, and […]

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Enrique Tarrio the former leader of the The Proud Boys, a mysterious right-wing men-only grouping, has been jailed for 22 years for orchestrating the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. It is the longest sentence handed down so far over the attack, which happened on Capitol Hill as lawmakers were certifying President […]

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Tropical Storm Lee is expected to rapidly intensify into an “extremely dangerous” hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean by this weekend, the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday morning, as the season approaches its September peak, when the ocean waters are at their warmest. Lee could become a hurricane Wednesday then a major Category 3 storm or […]

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