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Missing Indonesian submarine: rescuers find unidentified object as US joins search
The Guardian 23 Apr 2021
As the US military joined the search, the Indonesian navy said on Thursday its ships had found an unidentified object at a depth of 50-100 metres (165-330ft) ... “They can go deeper than that because they will have a safety margin built into the design, but the pumps and other systems that are associated with that may not have the capacity to operate ... .
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Hundreds mourn Daunte Wright, fatally shot by officer in Minneapolis area
Bradenton Herald 23 Apr 2021
MINNEAPOLIS — Daunte Wright’s mother addressed a funeral crowd of hundreds Thursday, telling them through tears how the 20-year-old fatally shot by police this month had been looking forward to raising his toddler son. “He always said he couldn’t wait to make his son proud,” Katie Wright said as she stood flanked by her husband and the Rev ... .
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Tesla's Autopilot 'tricked' to operate without driver
BBC News 23 Apr 2021
The Autopilot feature in Tesla vehicles can be tricked into operating without a driver, an influential consumer magazine in the US has found. Consumer Reports engineers looked into claims that Autopilot can operate without a driver present. They tested the Model Y on a closed track and concluded the system could be "easily tricked" ... .
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Bitcoin Price Breakdown: Bulls In Trouble As $50,000 Is Lost
NewsBTC 23 Apr 2021
Bitcoin price has been in free fall mode, plummeting sharply from $65,000 to now under $50,000 for the first time since March. Bitcoin Price Falls Under $50,000 Briefly. Bulls at the moment have pushed Bitcoin price back up more than $1,200 as orders at $50,000 filled for the first time in a month. Related Reading ... Source ... Related Reading .
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More than 100 asylum seekers feared dead after shipwreck off Libya
The Guardian 23 Apr 2021
Dozens of bodies have been spotted near a capsized vessel which had about 130 people on board At least 120 asylum seekers are feared dead after their rubber boat capsized in stormy seas off the coast of Libya while they were attempting to reach Europe, charities and the UN migration agency say ... “We are heartbroken ... .
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Russia announces end to massive troop buildup near Ukraine
Yahoo Daily News 22 Apr 2021
Russia's defense minister said Thursday that massive military exercises near the border with Ukraine had been completed, and that he had ordered troops to return to their permanent bases by May 1, according to state media. Why it matters ... Between the lines ... and Europe ... would not fight a war over Ukraine. The European response was more muted still ... .
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‘It was a torture chamber’: Ugandans abducted in vicious crackdown
The Guardian 22 Apr 2021
Exclusive. victims and relatives describe suffering as repression intensifies under Yoweri Museveni. Hundreds of ordinary people suspected of supporting opposition politicians in Uganda have been snatched off the streets by security services in the worst wave of repression in the east African country for decades ... “They continued to torture me ... .
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Chernobyl radiation damage 'not passed to children'
BBC News 23 Apr 2021
This is according to the first study to screen the genes of children whose parents were enlisted to help in the clean-up after the nuclear accident ... One of the lead researchers, Dr Stephen Chanock, also from the NCI, explained that the research team recruited whole families, so the scientists could compare the DNA of a mother, a father and a child ... .
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Hawks guard Trae Young’s ankle injury not as serious as feared
Finger Lakes Times
23 Apr 2021
ATLANTA — Tough injury news seems to be a constant for the Hawks this season. Trae Young went down with a left ankle sprain late in the third quarter of the Hawks’ overtime loss in New York on Wednesday night, seeming to be in a lot of pain and grabbing his ankle after appearing to come down wrong on it ... Young will miss Friday’s game vs ... “Still sore ... .
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Three of seven kidnapped clergy in Haiti freed
France24 23 Apr 2021
Three of seven Catholic clergy who were kidnapped in Haiti earlier this month have been released, a Church spokesman told AFP on Thursday, as the island nation grapples with a rise in violence and ongoing political crisis. ... Father Loudger Mazile, spokesman for the Bishop’s Conference for the island nation, said “the French were not released ... .
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UK lawmakers declare China's treatment of Uyghurs is genocide
CNN 23 Apr 2021
London (CNN)British lawmakers have unanimously declared China's ongoing crackdown in Xinjiang a genocide, joining the United States, Canada and the Netherlands in condemning Beijing's actions against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the far-west region in the strongest possible terms ... "Today's vote must mark a turning point ... Read More ... .
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Astronomers map asteroid’s 22m-year journey to Earth
The Guardian 23 Apr 2021
Flight path of Kalahari’s six-tonne asteroid is first tracing of meteorite shedding rock to solar system origin Astronomers have reconstructed the 22m-year-long voyage of an asteroid that hurtled through the solar system and exploded over Botswana, showering meteorites across the Kalahari desert ... Much to the researchers’ amazement, it had ... .
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Time for urgent action on climate change in ‘moment of peril' for our planet
Irish Independent 23 Apr 2021
With United States President Joe Biden, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and Chinese leader Xi Jinping all singing from a single hymnal on climate change, you might think the world was close to harmony on the issue. However, that would fail to take into consideration the views of Kerry Independent TD Danny Healy-Rae ... Read More. John Bruton ... “This is happening.
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Turkey alarmed over Biden’s intent to recognise Armenian ‘genocide’
The Arab Weekly 22 Apr 2021
WASHINGTON--US President Joe Biden is expected to honour a campaign pledge and become the first occupant of the White House to describe the wartime massacre of Ottoman Turkey’s Armenians as “genocide” ... Bi-partisan pressure ... Dozens of other countries including France and Russia have already designated the Armenian killings as genocide ... .
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Afghanistan: US Exit Is with Caveats
GlobalResearch 22 Apr 2021
The United States and NATO are yet to begin the withdrawal of their forces from Afghanistan but the eyes are cast over the horizon at what lies after the ‘forever war’ formally ends. The US exit strategy in Afghanistan assumes the look of that random arbitrariness of a lottery that was the case with its Iraq war ending inconclusively in 2011 ... etc ... .
