Anonymous Greece hacked two websites of Turkey’s crucial ministries: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense on Sunday. They first hacked the website of Foreign Ministry and a few hours after the one of the Defense Ministry. But hacking of the Foreign Ministry website was a …mistake. …
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Authorities on the island of Mykonos imposed a fine of 20,000 euros and shut down for 60 days one of the famous beach bars on the island for “facilitating” crowding over the weekend. Worth noting, right away, is that customers are not allowed to stay at the bar counter; they …
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With no active Covid-19 cases, New Zealand is lifting almost all its coronavirus restrictions
Almost all coronavirus restrictions in New Zealand will be lifted tomorrow, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced, after the country reported no active cases.
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How laundry is spilling plastics into the ocean
Every time we do the laundry, our clothes shed millions of plastic microfibers. Those that find their way into the ocean may be disrupting life all the way up the food chain.
Read More »Tokyo governor warns Olympics could be slimmed down in 2021
In an interview with CNN’s Will Ripley, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said the Tokyo Olympic Games could signify a victory over the pandemic but admitted that organizers were contending with many uncertainties.
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Thousands attended the largely peaceful protests across the UK, but there were clashes with police.
Read More »Bristol slave trader Edward Colston statue ‘was an affront’
Bristol’s mayor says he feels no “sense of loss” after the statue was pulled down by anti-racism protesters.
Read More »Early American policing – runaway slave patrols
From slave patrols to enabling lynchings, we look at the history of police violence in black America.
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