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Saudi Arabia said Saturday it had executed a record 81 people in one day for terrorism-related offences, exceeding the total number killed last year and sparking criticism from rights activists.

All had been "found guilty of committing multiple heinous crimes", the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported, saying they included convicts linked to the Islamic State group, Al-Qaeda, Yemen's Huthi rebel forces or "other terrorist organisations".

The wealthy Gulf country has one of the world's highest execution rates, and has often carried out previous death sentences by beheading.

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Documentary evidence of Washington’s aggressive plans for developing and manufacturing biological weapons in secret US biological laboratories in Ukraine, banned by international conventions, has been uncovered during the Russian special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine, and it is frankly horrifying! Although suspicions of such US activities have already been repeatedly published by many media outlets and their verification and official confirmation of such criminal anti-human plans by Washington was one of the goals of Moscow’s special operation to demilitarize Ukraine.

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China has added an odd piece of legislation that now bans people from ordering too much and wasting food.

Most of us have got too excited about the prospect of food and ordered more than we need. Admittedly, you usually feel terrible after trying to force yourself to eat too much, but you don’t have to worry about legal action. People in China will now be at the mercy of the law if they order too much or make binge-eating videos.

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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Monday that an ongoing escalation of war in Ukraine ”whether by accident or design” will threaten the entire humanity. He further alarmed that the conflict may end up in the nuclear apocalypse.

“The prospect of nuclear conflict, once unthinkable, is now back within the realm of possibility,” Guterres said.

Guterres’ comments on nuclear war were made in relation to President Vladimir Putin raising Russia’s deterrent forces – which include various strategic weapons, both nuclear and conventional – to “special” alert last month, a development the UN chief called “bone-chilling.”

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It’s been a heavy week in both Australian and global news. At least 21 people have died in the east coast floods, after one of the worst natural disasters in Australia’s history.

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U.S. Bill Sends More Anti-Tank, Anti-Aircraft Arms to Ukraine

$1.5 trillion funding bill triggers new arms shipments

Package to include Stinger, Javelin missiles, 105mm mortars

Ukraine’s military will see a fresh flow of anti-tank and anti-aircraft weaponry to help it stave off Russia’s offensive following U.S. Senate passage of a $1.5 trillion government funding bill late Thursday. 

Included in the funding package that now goes to President Joe Biden’s desk for signature is $3.5 billion to “replenish U.S. stocks of equipment sent to Ukraine.” That’s expected to include new shipments of 105mm mortars and additional Javelin and Stinger anti-armor and anti-aircraft weapons, according to people familiar with the issue.

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When a friend asked him about his religious views, Carroll wrote in response that he was a member of the Church of England, but "doubt[ed] if he was fully a 'High Churchman'". He added:

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Microvilli (singular: microvillus) are microscopic cellular membrane protrusions that increase the surface area for diffusion and minimise any increase in volume, and are involved in a wide variety of functions, including absorption, secretion, cellular adhesion, and mechano-transduction.

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Fleeing from wars, armed conflicts and various militant activities, migrants from Africa and Asia continue to make risky attempts to enter the EU by various means, often using risky and perilous routes. However, streams of refugees in Europe have increased in recent days amid the events in Ukraine.

So, after the outright genocide of the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine by Kiev’s neo-Nazi authorities, especially in Donbass, where, according to incomplete figures, more than 13,000 citizens of that country have died in the last eight years, almost 200,000 refugees have already taken refuge in Russia in recent days.

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Abu Zubaydah, whom the CIA once mistakenly alleged was a top Al-Qaeda leader, was waterboarded 80-plus times, subjected to assault in the form of forced rectal exams, and exposed to live burials in coffins for hundreds of hours. Zubaydah sobbed, twitched and hyperventilated. During one waterboarding session, he became completely unresponsive, with bubbles coming out of his mouth. “He became so compliant that he would prepare for waterboarding at the snap of a finger,” Neil Gorsuch wrote in his 30-page dissent in United States v. Zubaydah.

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In chemotherapy, the treatment is pushed to the limit bordering with killing the patient. Something was troubling young Gus-the-Elder. Why would Zelensky let the Russians in by being a little dickhead and making noises about joining NATO and having nukes on Ukrainian soil? Zelensky would have to know that this would IRK the Ruskies no end.

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An upcoming all-Tchaikovsky concert by Wales’ Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra has been deemed problematic, and the program has been redesigned to remove all pieces by the famed Russian composer.

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COSSA, the Consortium of Social Science Organizations, has long been one of the most important voices speaking up for the various social sciences. It seeks to bring home to both government officials and the public in general a sense of the important contributions that the social sciences have made and can make to our national well being. It emphasizes the many ways that it is in our national interest to ensure the adequate funding of social scientists and social science research going forward.

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Top US officials have already been mocked for their bizarre choice of words and gaffes when it comes to the Ukraine crisis. President Joe Biden, for his part, happened to call Ukrainians "the Iranian people".
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressed concerns around the situation in Ukraine during her remarks at the House Democrats' Philadelphia retreat, but happened to mispronounce both the name of the country she was concerned about and its president.

Pelosi referred to the slogan "Slava Ukraini" ["Glory to Ukraine"], which she pronounced in a way that sounded rather like "Slava Ukrony". She then revealed that she had spoken to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky... but in Pelosi's case, there was a twist to his name.