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Susan Semel's book on the history of Dalton School said that Donald "Barr didn’t care about credentials as long as you were interesting and knew your stuff”. Mr Epstein attended "NYU’s Courant Institute, where he took courses in mathematical physiology of the heart, leaving that school, too, without a degree". Dalton's student newspaper (September 1974) indicated that Mr Epstein "was starting that year as a math and physics teacher". Given that Barr quit his office by the end of 1974, it is plausible to think that unqualified Mr Epstein was hired when Barr was still in charge.
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Mr Epstein attended "NYU’s Courant Institute, where he took courses in mathematical physiology of the heart, leaving that school, too, without a degree". However, after leaving the school where he was allegedly "fired for poor performance", a Dalton school parent recommended him to Alan Greenberg who invited Epstein "to his office, barked out a few questions and hired him on the spot".
According to people familiar with Greenberg at the time, this was not unusual for him.
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After Donald Trump made the claim that "You can look at large portions of our country; it’s — it’s corona-free" on July 28, 2020, in a Press Briefing, our check with the data has revealed that only about 4.5% of Counties have not reported new coronavirus cases between July 22 and August 4. We judge the claim to be FALSE.
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“The claim that wearing masks can give someone hypercapnia is malicious misinformation” according to Keith Neal, Emeritus Professor of the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases at the University of Nottingham.
Baring very rare instances, "Wearing a mask is safe for most people". Certain types (N95 or FFP2) may, however, be harmful due to their tight-fitting nature.
The claim is, therefore, FALSE
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Darren Hutchinson says "There’s really no distinction...it’s basically a falsehood that’s been repeated over and over and over again". While there are some minor differences in some states, in others the terms are interchangeable. In Florida, for example, absentee voting has been shown to be the same as mail-in voting; following the bill (Chapter 2016-37, L.O.F.) that changed the phrase “absentee” to “vote-by-mail”.
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Johnson claimed that Trump violently raped her when she was 13 at a 1994 orgy hosted by Jeffrey Epstein — the billionaire who was convicted in 2008 of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution and has been accused of having sex with more than 30 underage girls.
The lawsuit alleged a number of charges against both Trump and Epstein, including rape, sexual abuse, assault and battery, and false imprisonment. Johnson said that when she was 13, Epstein lured her to parties at his apartment by promising “money and a modeling career.”
Johnson said Trump had sexual contact with her at four of those parties, including tying her to a bed and violently raping her in a “savage sexual attack.” The lawsuit said Johnson “loudly pleaded” with Trump to stop, but that he responded by “violently striking Plaintiff in the face with his open hand and screaming that he would do whatever he wanted.”
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The deceased American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell were Israeli spies who used underage girls to blackmail politicians into giving information to Israel, according to an alleged former Mossad agent.
The couple reportedly ran a “honey-trap” operation in which they provided young girls to prominent politicians from around the world for sex, and then used the incidents to blackmail them in order to attain information for Israeli intelligence.
The claims are being made by the alleged former Israeli spy Ari Ben-Menashe in a soon-to-be-released book “Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales” in which he said that he was the handler of Ghislaine’s father Robert Maxwell, who was also an Israeli espionage agent and was the one who introduced his daughter and Epstein to Mossad.
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Hoffenberg went down as a convicted Ponzi schemer but claims he was ably partnered by Epstein who escaped being charged. According to Hoffenberg, a British business acquaintance introduced him to Epstein in the 1980s, and a friendly and business relation kicked off. Hoffenberg said "[Epstein] appeared to be brilliant, extraordinarily gifted and talented in convincing people to buy from him. And a criminal mastermind," and so, hired Epstein at Towers Financial. Epstein was essential in the operations as "He knew many people in the brokerage business that sold securities and they gave him access to investors,". Despite the crucial part played by Epstein in the fraudulent scheme, Hoffenberg wonders why he escaped being charged. He laments “There is no explanation in the world, none, for Jeffrey Epstein not to have been charged with me as a co-defendant.” as he took the fall.
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It is very doubtful that Epstein made enough riches during his spell at Bear Stearns, as the possible span of earnings that could be made at that time was relatively too small to enable him to afford his flashy lifestyle. Epstein mysteriously left Bear Stearns to work on his own, reportedly handling the monies of the very wealthy. It is quite murky whether he was successful at this job or not, although he claims that he consulted for billionaires. Evidence from the 'Broken - Jeffrey Epstein' podcast suggests that "If you were working at Bear Stearns in the 1970s... so by the 1970s, you'd be probably making 50000 a year if you were good. I mean Jeffery Epstein... if he was making 15000-20000 a year, that's probably a lot" (26:56-27:28). In the 'Broken - Jeffrey Epstein' podcast, Hoffenberg explains that "Jeffrey Epstein was broke, couldn’t pay his bills and came to us, humbly, looking for employment and asking for opportunity. There were clouds…" (31-22-31:34).
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Reliability: 0.9
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The period 2014-2018 saw detained migrant children alleging that they suffered sexual abuse during their detention. The Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy caused thousands of immigrant children to be separated from their families. The US health department and the Department of Justice received about 4500 and 1303 of such complaints, respectively. Jonathan White, the deputy director for children's program's at Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), gave a testimony that the allegations were against personnel who were contracted by HHS to oversee the migrant detention facilities and not against HHS staff. With some of the complaints including "allegations that children were forcibly strapped to chairs, molested, and denied sufficient medical care" Mr Deutch admitted that “It was our responsibility, this administration’s responsibility, to keep these children safe … but we failed.”
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Available facts contradict the claim that the look of the year parties had the careers of participants at heart. Aspiring young models who travelled from around the world to compete in the pageantry that had been running since 1983. The prize was a $150,000 contract with Elite Model Management, the world’s leading modelling agency at that time. "[Donald Trump] was a headline sponsor ... He was also one of its 10 judges". Accounts from the participants revealed some dirty details. "[Shawna Lee, then a 14-year-old from a small town outside Toronto] recalls how the contestants were encouraged to parade downstairs, one by one, and dance for Trump...". Barbara Pilling recalls Trump, in the summer of 1989, asked her out for dinner. When Trump asked about her age, she recalled saying “I said 17 and he said, ‘That’s just great – you’re not too old, not too young.’”
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It's hard to talk about Jeffrey Epstein without mentioning Les Wexner.
Wexner is the CEO and founder of L Brands, the parent company to Victoria's Secret. Epstein, who was arrested and charged with sex trafficking in July, was once the billionaire CEO's financial advisor. Wexner was one of Epstein's only known clients.
The two men maintained a decades-long relationship, in July 1991 Wexner granted Epstein power of attorney, which included the "full power and authority to do and perform every act necessary” on behalf of Wexner, The New York Times reported. Also, Epstein is said to have received millions of dollars from Wexner, and a private plane and two mansions that had previously been owned by Wexner or his companies fell into Epstein's hands.
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Qanon is a conspiracy theory that has claimed that Donald Trump is working hard to bring down a cabal of Satanic paedophiles who also run a global child sex-trafficking ring. This claim lacks any credence. The named champion of the fleet, Donald Trump, cannot be said to be fighting any group of paedophiles, as his own utterances suggest he hay have a sexual interest in minors. Trump is reported to have made some creepy comments about Michael Cohen's 15-year-old daughter, saying "Look at that piece of ass... I would love some of that". It so happened that Trump was referring to Cohen’s then 15-year-old daughter, Samantha" More glaringly, some other minors have testified to being raped and sexually abused by Trump.
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Jean Luc Brunel and Epstein have been described as pals, business partners. Other accounts portray Brunel as Epstein sidekick and one that would go many lengths to please Epstein. As a renowned agent for young modelling talents, "[Brunel] was known for roaming the world in search of young, naïve beauties living in poverty-stricken countries and willing to do just about anything for money". Epstein benefited from Brunel's work as the friendship meant a free-flowing supply of young girls to satisfy his desires. Virginia Roberts tells in her memoir that "Jeffrey bragged about his birthday present from Brunel, once accepting three, twelve-year-old girls, sisters at that. He replayed the descriptive events with him telling me how they all massaged him and finished him off orally". It is quite interesting to note that Steve Mnuchin, who doubles as Trump's treasury secretary, is the contact person for Jean Luc Brunel's Next Management Corporation.
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Reliability: 0.9
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After leaving Bear Stearns quietly for an unknown reason, Epstein continued to do business with the firm. He told people he was a 'bounty hunter' for governments and billionaires, and held an Austrian passport with a fake name and residence address in Saudi Arabia.
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AG Bill Barr advised President Bush Senior to pardon administration
officials involved in the Iran-Contra affair. This won him the nickname
'The Coverup General'.
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Ghislaine moved to the U.S in 1991, shortly after her father's death in an apparent suicide. Some of the money he stole was never recovered
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Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine's billionaire father and a known Israeli intelligence asset, reportedly introduced Epstein to his daughter in the 80s.
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Trump has been partying with Epstein during the 90s and 2000s, and was accused of raping a 13 year old girl in Epstein's New York mansion. Their relationship ended for an unknown reason around the time criminal charges were filed against Epstein.
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Reliability: 0.96
Confidence: 0.15
In a 1992 video, Trump is heard saying about a child that he will be
dating her in 10 years. He was 46 at the time.
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Reliability: 0.9
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Alex Acosta, Trump's former secretary of labor, gave Epstein a 'sweetheart deal' for abusing girls when he was Florida's U.S attorney.
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Reliability: 0.96
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Alan Dershowitz, the attorney who got Jeffrey Epstein a sweetheart deal in his Florida case, was one of Trump's lawyers in his impeachment trial. Dershowitz himself was accused of sexual abuse by Epstein's survivors. In a 1997 op-ed he wrote that the age of consent should be lowered to 15 or 14.
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Reliability: 0.92
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During his investigation in Florida, Epstein assembled a powerhouse legal team of Republican or Democratic lawyers, depending on the political affiliation of the prosecutor.
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Reliability: 0.87
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Trump has been partying with John Casablancas during the 80s and 90s, and sponsored his beauty pageants. Casablancas publicly dated a 16 year old model when he was 42, and a decade later married a 17 year old girl. Both Casablancas' associate Paolo Zampolli and Jeffrey Epstein claim to have introduced Melania and Donald Trump at a party in 1998.
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Reliability: 0.9
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When Ivanka Trump was 15 years old, she started a modelling career with Elite Models. John Casablancas, the founder of the agency and a close friend of Donald Trump, was a known sex-predator who publicly dated a 16 year old girl when he was 42.
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During the mid-90s Melania Knauss worked as a model and lived in Paris. Paolo Zampolli claims to have discovered her in Milan and brought her to the US. Zampolli tried to buy Elite Models with Jeffrey Epstein in 2004 and is associated with other known sex predators such as John Casablancas and billionaire playboy Ron Burkle. Zampolli was rumoured to have run his modelling agency like an escort service.
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Jean Luc Brunel and Ghislaine Maxwell knew each other since the 1980s when he was a big-player in the French fashion scene. She introduced him to Jeffrey Epstein in the 1990s, and he allegedly became a chief procurer of underaged girls from all over the world to Epstein
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Jean-Luc Brunel has been a model scout since the 1970s, and became
the head of Karin Models in 1978. In the late 80s he was exposed, alongside other model agents, for drugging and sexually abusing
underaged models. He later founded MC2 models with financial help
from Jeffrey Epstein.
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AG Bill Barr released a statement immediately after Epstein was found dead in his jail cell. He described Epstein's death as an 'apparent suicide' despite suspicious circumstances, which he later called 'a perfect storm of screw-ups'. Barr's father was the headmaster of Dalton school who hired Epstein as a teacher, and Barr's former law-firm represented Epstein when he got the 'sweetheart deal' for his sex-crimes in Florida.
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Jean Luc Brunel has been a famous model scout ever since the 70s. He
has founded several prominent modelling agencies and recruited young girls from all over the world. He was exposed as a sex-predator already in the 1980s, but continued his operations unimpeded until Jeffrey Epstein was arrested in 2019. Epstein has reportedly bragged that he slept with over 1000 of Brunel's girls
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The Trump campaign has filed a lawsuit claiming their election-observers were not allowed to observe ballot counting in Philadelphia. However, in court their lawyer admitted that there were, in fact, campaign poll-watchers present at all times. A similar claim was rejected by a court in Michigan. While the lawyers raised complaints about the distance that watchers had to maintain, and the number of watchers allowed due to social-distancing rules - Trump campaign's poll watchers were present and subject to the same rules as all the other watchers.
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In spite of repeated claims of voter fraud in Pennsylvania, Trump's lawyers have not presented any actual evidence of fraudulent or illegal votes in court. In fact, Giuliani said in court that he is not alleging fraud. All three judges who rejected the lawsuit in the federal court were appointed by Republican presidents. The one who wrote the ruling was appointed by Trump in 2017.
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In a lawsuit seeking to stop the certification of Georgia's election, Trump's team presented supposed irregularities in vote counting in Michigan, which used the same voting machines as Georgia. However, many of the precincts listed in the filing are in Minnesota, not Michigan, and none of them had more votes than registered voters. Trump's lawyers have admitted to mistaking the two states, but did not explain where the numbers they presented came from. A federal judge dismissed the case".
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Reliability: 0.9
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Smartmatic is a Florida based company, founded by two Venezuelan-American businessmen with no known ties to Hugo Chavez. Smartmatic voting machines were used only in Los Angeles in the 2020 US elections. The results were very similar to those of the 2016 elections, with the Democratic candidate receiving just over 70% of the votes.
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Trump has alleged that Dominion deleted 2.7 million Trump votes nationwide. The president was referring to a fake report, supposedly from Edison Research, which claimed that Dominion Voting Systems may have switched as many as 435,000 votes from President Trump to Joe Biden, and deleted 2.7 Trump votes. Larry Rossin, the president of Edison Research, has denied issuing any such report.
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Trump and his supporters were circulating a list of dead people who have supposedly voted in the 2020 elections. CNN examined 50 of the more than 14,000 names on the list. Of the 50, 37 were indeed dead and had not voted, five people had voted - and they were all still alive. The remaining eight were also alive but didn't vote. No evidence of widespread fraud was presented in any court case regarding the 2020
elections.
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Reliability: 0.2
Confidence: 0.15
Several of Trump's lawyers claim that Dominion voting machines, which were used in Georgia and other states, were tied to Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013. In fact, Dominion is a Virginia based company that has no ties to Venezuela or Hugo Chavez. Smartmatic machines were used in Venezuela, but not in Georgia.
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Reliability: 0.1
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The Trump campaign submitted a lawsuit in Pennsylvania, claiming that the election was not fair because some counties in the state allowed voters to correct mistakes in their mailed-in ballots while others didn't. Both a district court and an appeals court have rejected the lawsuit, since all counties have received the same instructions, and it was up to local election officials whether or not to notify voters of errors in their ballots. Additionally, the number of ballots in question is far lower than Joe Biden's lead in the state".
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Many of Epstein's friends stood by him after he was exposed as a sex-predator. Two months after he was released from prison, Epstein reportedly attended an exclusive event in Southampton where he was 'greeted warmly by guests' who included Wilbur Ross, Steve Mnuchin and Rudy Giuliani. In December that year Epstein held a party for Prince Andrew at his New York mansion. Woody Allen, who married his step-daughter and was accused of molesting another step-daughter, was among the guests.
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Reliability: 0.9
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Trump has repeatedly complained that mail-in ballots in Georgia's 2020 election are fraudulent because signatures were not matched. In fact, signatures are matched by election officials in Georgia both when a person requests a mail-in ballot, and when the ballot is returned.
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Reliability: 0.9
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Republican legislatures in several key states have refused to change their election laws and allow officials to start counting mail-in votes before election day. Additionally, Trump has encouraged his supporters to vote on election day and not by mail. As a result, Trump had a lead on election day, but once mailed-in ballots were counted Biden took the lead.
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The U.S supreme court has rejected a lawsuit from Texas' Attorney General, seeking to invalidate election results in four other states. He claimed that Biden's win is statistically impossible based on Clinton's support in those states. However, Biden has outperformed Hillary Clinton by 15 million votes nationwide and hence won the elections.
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Confidence: 0.15
The U.S supreme court has rejected a lawsuit from Texas' Attorney General, seeking to invalidate election results in four other states. He claimed that Biden's win is statistically impossible because Trump was
leading when most of the votes have been counted. However, many of the late-arriving votes were mail-in votes, which were mostly for Biden because Trump has urged his voters to cast their votes in person.
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Reliability: 0.9
Confidence: 0.3
The House impeached President Donald Trump for a second time, charging him with "incitement of insurrection" for his role in the violent riot by a pro-Trump mob in the U.S. Capitol that left five people dead and terrorized lawmakers as they sought to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory.
The vote to impeach passed the Democratic-controlled House by 232 yea -197 nay, with 10 Republicans voting against Trump. It was the most bipartisan vote on a presidential impeachment in history, doubling the five Democrats who voted to impeach Bill Clinton in 1998.
The House is expected to immediately send the article of impeachment to the Senate, requiring it to begin the process of holding a trial to determine whether to convict Trump and potentially bar him from ever running for any federal office again.
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Confidence: 0.15
The Bank of Korea increased its base rate of interest from a record low of 0.5% to 0.75%.
The move is aimed at helping curb the country's household debt and home prices, which soared in recent months.
Central banks around the world are trying to balance the impact of ongoing Covid-19 infections against economic risks such as high inflation.
It is the first time the Bank of Korea has raised its main interest rate for almost three years.
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Reliability: 0.85
Confidence: 0.6
Around 87% of the $540 billion in total annual government support given worldwide to agricultural producers includes measures that are price distorting and that can be harmful to nature and health.
That is the main finding of a new UN report calling for repurposing these incentives to achieve more of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and realize the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration. It noted that farmers are particularly vulnerable to impacts of the climate crisis, such as extreme heat, rising sea levels, drought, floods, and locust attacks.
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Reliability: 0.885
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Nana Ampadu composed NDC campaign songs before switching to NPP
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Confidence: 0.45000002
The UK government is to relax the regulation of gene-edited crops to enable commercial growing in England.
The plants are to be tested and assessed in the same way as conventional new varieties. This has become possible because the UK no longer has to follow European Union regulations on gene-edited crops due to recent Brexit.
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India's plans to expand its coal fleet by 64 gigawatt would nearly double the number of annual premature deaths from coal-related air pollution in Delhi to 5,280 over the next decade, according to a new study.
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UK government removes restrictions on fully vaccinated Ghanaians.
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Reliability: 0.9166667
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New Delhi has been declared the world's most polluted capital for the third straight year in 2020, according to a report by IQAir. The findings measures air quality levels based on the concentration of lung-damaging airborne particles known as PM2.5.
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Failed DCE nominee housed Assembly members, paid GHC 4000.00 to each.
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"I spent early US $15,000.00 of my savings on #FixTheCountry campaign." Convenor
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Men who sleep with other men have a very high HIV prevalence rate in Ghana, Director-General of the Ghana AIDS Commission, Dr Kyeremeh Atuahene has said. Speaking in an interview with Kwame Appiah Kubi on Monday, October 4, 2021, on Accra100.5FM’s morning show Ghana Yensom, Dr Atuahene said apart from gay men, sex workers of all kinds, are also highly vulnerable. “There are different risk levels based on sexual activity”, he pointed out, explaining: “Sex workers – both male and female – for example, have a high risk due to their sexual activities which they rely on as their livelihood”.
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Reliability: 0.8875
Confidence: 0.6
As the world fully embrace digitalization, experts have called for the urgent need for countries to ensure digital services are green by design while being created before they are rolled out to the public, warning that its carbon footprint could negatively impact the environment if not checked.
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A viral news publication with an audio in it claims that President Akufo-Addo is heard allegedly revealing that the coronavirus has been created in a laboratory and spread throughout the world and that the vaccines were not safe because they were manufactured with negative intentions.
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Reliability: 0.9
Confidence: 0.15
"Ghana on the verge of bumper maize harvest" - Agric Minister
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Reliability: 0.7
Confidence: 0.45000002
It is reported that the Malawian government ordered for COVID-19 vaccines from China but ended up receiving rocks. The claim was that the rocks were put in a shipping container and sent to the country from China. Some social media users claim the government was surprised after it went to inspect the arrival of the expected vaccine.
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Confidence: 0.3
The World Health Organization has approved a malaria vaccine for use in children for the first time. Malaria killed 274,000 children under five in 2019, and has caused more deaths in the past 18 months than COVID-19.
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Confidence: 0.45000002
Niger's Foreign Affairs minister, Hassoumi Massoudou has disclosed that his country and region are suffering recurrent droughts and flooding, as well as locust infestations and the annual loss of thousands of hectares of agricultural land due to degradation. He opined that the world needed more political will to combating climate change.
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Confidence: 0.5
Liberian president using Ghana's presidential jet.
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Confidence: 0.6
A total of 417 Ghanaians attempted suicide from January to June this year. This is according to the Mental Health Authority in its press release dated September 10. The Authority noted that “these figures could potentially even be higher than we know.”
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Confidence: 0.15
"Even 'traditionalist' don't accept LGBTQI+" - Solomon Nkansah
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Reliability: 0.89
Confidence: 0.15
Analysis by the WHO in March 2020 estimated that 650,000 people in Ghana are suffering from a severe mental disorder and a further 2,166,000 suffering from a moderate to mild mental disorders.
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Reliability: 0.455
Confidence: 0.3
Akufo-Addo won K.M.A elections for Sam Pyne
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Reliability: 0.9
Confidence: 0.15
Figures from the Ghana Aids Commission (GAC) revealed that out of the 18,928 new HIV infections in 2020, a total of 5,211 are young people between the ages of 15 and 24. This figure represents 28% of all new infections in 2020.
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Reliability: 0.8999999
Confidence: 0.45000002
Students writing the West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) are excited after the Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, charged public tertiary institutions to consider students with grades D7. According to the Minister, grades D7 do not imply that the student is a failure hence a need for a national discussion on the accepted cut off grades for enrolments into tertiary institutions in Ghana. Speaking at the swearing-in and inauguration of Governing Councils of some public technical Universities, the Minister charged the schools to innovate and create access programmes for such students. He believes Ghana’s gross tertiary enrolment ratio of 18.8% is nowhere near South Korea’s 73.6%, so no nation has been able to show transformation in its education without hitting 40 to 50% tertiary enrolment ratio. Some students described the announcement as good news.
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Reliability: 0.8999999
Confidence: 0.45000002
Only 14 out of the 54 African countries have met the global target of vaccinating more than 10% of their populations against coronavirus by the end of September, the World Health Organization has said.
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Reliability: 0.8975
Confidence: 0.6
Five England international footballers are refusing to have a coronavirus vaccine - threatening their places in the World Cup squad. Three senior team members are reportedly among the rebels who believe they are too healthy to suffer Covid or have been pressured by their wives. But with World Cup organisers planning to ban all unvaccinated players from competing next year in Qatar, Gareth Southgate will have to decide whether to try and convince the players to take jabs or face the prospect of leaving them out.Three of the players are senior squad members who were part of England's run to the European Championship final this summer. England are on course to qualify for the World Cup this month if they beat Andorra and Hungary, but any players who do not take a Covid jab will be unable to join the team in Qatar.
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4 reviews
Reliability: 0.895
Confidence: 0.6
Daniel Craig finally got a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame on Wednesday, days before his last movie as James Bond opens in the United States. “No Time to Die” marks Craig’s fifth and final outing as the suave British secret agent, ending a role that has spanned 15 years. The actor’s pink and terrazzo star was placed at the appropriately numbered 7007 Hollywood Boulevard, next to that of the late Roger Moore, who played Bond in seven movies from 1973 to 1985. It is the 2,704th star on the Walk of Fame.
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Reliability: 0.9
Confidence: 0.3
Provisional results of the 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC) has pegged Ghana’s population at 30.8 million. The current figure shows a 6.1 million increase of persons since the last Population Census in 2010. Ghana continues to have more females than males according to the provisional results released by the Ghana Statistical Service. There females are 15.6 million as against 15.2 million males representing 50.7% and 49.3% respectively.
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Reliability: 0.875
Confidence: 0.6
Cristiano Ronaldo's strict eating habits are already rubbing off on his new Manchester United teammates. According to goalkeeper Lee Grant, the rest of the squad are too scared to eat dessert in front of the 36-year-old superstar. A situation which resulted in the players not touching the apple crumble and custard during dinner. Ronaldo is renowned for following an extremely strict and healthy diet. According to ESPNFC, the five-time Ballon d'Or winner eats up to six meals and take five naps in a single "typical" day.
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4 reviews
Reliability: 0.86249995
Confidence: 0.6
Qatar will make its debut on the Formula 1 calendar with a race in November and has signed a 10-year deal to host a Grand Prix from 2023. The Gulf state will fill the vacant slot on this season's schedule on 19-21 November with a race at its Losail circuit, known for hosting MotoGP. Qatar will not host an F1 race in 2022 to focus on staging the Fifa World Cup. The race's location from 2023 has not been confirmed, but the plan is to hold a street race in the capital Doha. Qatar is the fourth Middle Eastern country to join the F1 calendar. It joins the long-standing races in Bahrain and Abu Dhabi, and Saudi Arabia, which makes its debut this year as the 2021 season's penultimate race on 3-5 December. And it will make for three races in the region to end this year's world championship, with Qatar followed by Saudi Arabia and then the season-finale in Abu Dhabi on 10-12 December.
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Confidence: 0.3
Government spokesperson on Infrastructure has disclosed that the reconstruction of the Accra-Tema Motorway would cost $570 million.
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Confidence: 0.3
Mary Bediaku, paralysed in both legs, indicated that she lost her ¢6,000 capital of her clothing business due to the closure of Ghana’s land borders as part of restrictions to curtail the spread of the coronavirus.
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Reliability: 0.84999996
Confidence: 0.6
One of the best goals you'll see this year came from a lower-tier Ghanaian playoff match between the Golden Kick SC and Mobile Phone People on Sunday. In an absurd sequence, 15-year-old Mizak Asante scored for Golden Kick after taking on nearly all of the opposition's defense. Asante changed directions twice with three defenders draped on him before he split all of them. He proceeded to leave another defender and the goalkeeper in the dirt and scored from the goalmouth with authority, right as two more opposing players tried to close out. The goal brought Golden Kick level, and the club went on to win and secure promotion by winning a penalty shootout 7–6 after the 1–1 draw at Accra Sports Stadium. The goal, which has already gone viral, could find itself in the mix for the FIFA Puskás Awards. These awards are given to the best goal of the year.
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Reliability: 0.8999999
Confidence: 0.45000002
The newly renovated Baba Yara Sports Stadium is among 11 venues to have been rejected by the Ghana Football Association Club Licensing Board ahead of the start of the 2021-22 Ghana Premier League season. The Baba Yara Sports Stadium which had been closed down for renovation for almost 18 months was officially declared for use by the National Sports Authority in September. The venue is home to Ghana Premier League sides Asante Kotoko and King Faisal Babes. The two teams had to play their home games away last season due to the closure of the facility. The Club License Board embarked on a tour to check the venues and approve it for usage ahead of the coming season. Only four venues were approved or granted conditional license to operate with the others including the newly renovated Baba Yara Sports Stadium and Accra Sports Stadium rejected.
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Reliability: 0.8999999
Confidence: 0.45000002
The Ghana Tuna Association (GTA) has called on the government to use the implementation of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to create a market for tuna in the landlocked countries.
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Confidence: 0.45000002
The secretariat of the Green Economy Ghana Project urges all industry players, governments and TVET institutions to come on board to develop a thriving and inclusive Green Economy in Ghana and enjoy shared prosperity.
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Confidence: 0.45000002
Millions of people across Europe may not be able to afford to heat their homes this winter as gas and electricity prices soar.
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Confidence: 0.45000002
A "bad bank" also described as an asset reconstruction companies or banks set up to buy the bad loans and other illiquid holdings of another financial institution. Specifically, these banks buy bad loans from affected banks at an agreed price. Bad banks are typically set up in times of crisis when long-standing financial institutions are trying to recuperate their reputations and wallets. In the past two decades, 28 such firms, all privately owned have been set up in India but with little success. This time, two companies have been formed by the government. The state owned and partly private owned will be responsible for the acquisition of the bad loans and the sale of the assets respectively.
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Confidence: 0.3
As of 4am on Monday, 47 countries will be removed from the red list so travellers arriving from those destinations will no longer have to quarantine in a government-approved hotel for 11 nights at a cost of £2,285
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Kanye West has found his bachelor pad amid his divorce from Kim Kardashian and it is a minimalist's dream at a maximalist's price point.
The 44-year-old mogul dropped a whopping $57.3million on a sprawling beachside home in Malibu in an off-market deal according to real estate transaction website Dirt. The stunning property which looks like a piece of art was designed by Japanese Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando and was built by Marmol Radziner. Self-taught architect Ando, 80, is renowned in the industry as he is behind the He Art Museum in China and the Bourse de Commerce in Paris and Kanye became a fan of the Osaka, Japan native after visiting the 'art island' he designed in Naoshima. Kim officially filed for divorce in February following months of rumors surrounding the state of their marriage, which lasted over six years.
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Reliability: 0.8999999
Confidence: 0.45000002
Climate change has become widespread, rapid and is intensifying, with global body on climate change warning that temperatures could rise by 1.5°C earlier - by 2040 - causing more heat waves, longer warm seasons, and other severe climate events.
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Confidence: 0.45000002
The Northern Regional Office of the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) has said negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have led to the closure of 82 hotels and accommodation units by management of those facilities due to low patronage.
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Confidence: 0.45000002
Leaked financial documents identify a network of secretly-owned firms used by Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein to buy 15 homes since he assumed power in 1999, the BBC has reported.
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Confidence: 0.6
YouTube has deleted two R.Kelly channels. The two channels R.Kelly TV and the singer’s Vevo account, which hosted his music videos, were removed on Tuesday in what YouTube, owned by Google, said was an enforcement of its terms of service. According to YouTube’s guidelines, it may shut down the channels of people accused of very serious offenses if they have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes, and if their content is closely related to those crimes. On Tuesday, a news report linked to YouTube’s head of legal described the incident as egregious and which warranted penalties beyond standard enforcement measures due to a potential to cause widespread harm.
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Confidence: 0.3
"We have no text books but you are here celebrating teachers' day." Clement Apaak jabs government.
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Confidence: 0.3
"Prisoners are forced into homosexuality" - Rockson Defeamekpor
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Confidence: 0.45000002
A volcano eruption on La Palma in the Spanish Canary Islands has destroyed houses and forced about 5,500 residents to evacuate. Lava from the Cumbre Vieja volcano has been pouring downhill, devastating everything in its path. La Palma island is home to around 80,000 people. Authorities say military and civil guard has since been deployed to help. The volcano last erupted 50 years ago.
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Confidence: 0.15
Ghana's Food and Agriculture Minister, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has said that the government has maintained the producer price for purchase of cocoa beans at GH¢10,560 per metric tonne for the 2021/2022 crop season, representing 87.1 of the Free on Board (FOB) value.
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The World Health Organization has given approval for the widespread use of the malaria vaccine among children in countries that still have high cases of the disease. The decision comes after the vaccine trials were done in Ghana, Malawi and Kenya.
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Confidence: 0.6
The National Primary Heath Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) claims Nigeria has the highest COVID-19 vaccination rate in Africa.
It’s executive director, Faisal Shuaib at a media briefing said an average of 87,000 people were being vaccinated daily in Nigeria.
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Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill opposers are occults – Maurice Ampaw.
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More than 2,000 pupils in five primary schools on islands in the Sene East of the Bono region are studying in dilapidated structures which have become death traps. The five schools are serving 35 fishing and farming island communities with a population of about 35,000. Most of the school structures were erected by members of the communities through communal labour, and over the years the buildings have developed deep cracks because they were not constructed with cement and iron rods. A teacher in the area said, on some occasions they had to use their own money to buy basic teaching and learning materials to facilitate class activities.
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Rising inflation is triggering anxiety around the world as a surge in demand following the easing of Covid-19 lockdowns has been confronted by supply bottlenecks and rising prices of energy and raw materials.
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