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Mining firm Rio Tinto sorry for destroying Aboriginal caves
The Juukan Gorge caves, located in the Pilbara region of the state of Western Australia , were blown up with dynamite on May 24 by Rio Tinto , one of the world's largest mining companies, as it expanded an iron mining project that was agreed upon with local authorities. [Full Article...]
Greece to open to tourists from 29 countries from June 15
Worldwide flights are allowed into all airports in Greece . Greece's government has released the first list of 29 countries allowed to send tourists to the country as of June 15 by flights to the airports of Athens and Thessaloniki . Outside the European Union , holidaymakers from Switzerland, Norway, and neighbouring Balkan countries such as Albania, Serbia and North Macedonia will be allowe... [Full Article...]
Facebook workers angry over Mark Zuckerberg's view of Trump
There isn't a neutral position on racism", he wrote in a tweet on Saturday. Andrew Crow , head of design for Facebook's Portal videoconferencing device, posted on Twitter : " Censoring information that might help people see the complete picture is wrong". [Full Article...]
World Uneasily Watches US Protests But American Racism Seen Before
Violent demonstrations erupted this week in major cities across the country as protesters decry years of deaths at the hands of police officers. In Italy, the Corriere della Sera newspaper's senior USA correspondent Massimo Gaggi wrote that the reaction to Floyd's killing was "different" than previous cases of black Americans killed by police and the ensuring violence. [Full Article...]
Twitter Flags Donald Trump ‘Looting, Shooting’ Tweet As "Glorifying Violence"
Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way", Trump tweeted". The social media giant faced questions earlier in the day about why it had not acted on messages from Trump, posted to both Twitter Inc.'s and Facebook's apps, that contained language Twitter flagged for glorifying violence. [Full Article...]
Russian Health Ministry Approves First Domestic Drug for COVID-19
For the first time since May 23 the incidence rate exceeded 9,000 - 9,268 people were tested positive for COVID-19 over the last 24 hours, taking the country's tally to 405,843, the emergency task force said in a statement. Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed a decree allocating 10.9 billion rubles (155 million USA dollars) to subsidize the country's airports as the pandemic has gr... [Full Article...]
Russia Not Welcome At G7, Says Canada PM Justin Trudeau
Trump said on Saturday he would postpone a Group of Seven summit he had hoped to hold next month until at least September and expand the list of invitees to include Australia, Russia , South Korea and India. Trump told reporters on May 30 that the current membership of the G7 - the United States, Canada, Germany, Britain, Japan, Italy, and France - was "outdated" and doesn't properly represent ... [Full Article...]
Trump to invite Russian Federation and other non-member G7 countries to summit
Alyssa Farah, the White House director of strategic communications, said Trump wants to bring in "traditional allies", including so-called Five Eyes countries, as well as those impacted by the coronavirus , and talk about the future of China. [Full Article...]