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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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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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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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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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Putin blasts US 'hegemony,' predicts end to 'unipolar' world
Stars and Stripes 16 Aug 2022
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States of trying to encourage extended hostilities in Ukraine as part of what he described Tuesday as Washington's alleged efforts to maintain its global hegemony ... "They need conflicts to retain their hegemony," Putin charged ... Putin also drew parallels between the U.S ... .
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US Carries Out Missile Test Delayed Over Chinese Drills
Voa News 16 Aug 2022
China deployed scores of planes and fired live missiles in the Taiwan Strait after U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a trip to the self-ruled island ... The test showed "the readiness of U.S ... The re-entry vehicle traveled about 6,760 km (4,200 miles) and was launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California ... The U.S ... But U.S ... .
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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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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: WN / RTayco
‘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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Chinese 'spy ship' Yuan Wang 5 docks in Sri Lanka despite Indian concern
BBC News 16 Aug 2022
A Chinese research ship has docked in Sri Lanka's Hambantota port despite Indian concerns. The Yuan Wang 5 was given permission to dock on the condition it would not carry out research while in Sri Lankan waters, said port officials. India had previously voiced concerns that the ship would be used to spy on its activities, said media reports ... .
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Low-calorie sweetener can also improve gut health: Study
The Siasat Daily 16 Aug 2022
Washington. A new study has revealed that a low-calorie mixture that is as sweet as table sugar and, in lab experiments, feeds ‘good’ gut microbes. The study was published in the journal, ‘Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry’ ... But these extracts sometimes have off-flavours, which can be removed with enzymes. So, F ... .