Musk explains new Twitter limits

The “temporary” restrictions have already proven unpopular with users

Twitter owner Elon Musk announced on Saturday that users of the platform will be limited to viewing a maximum of 8,000 posts per day, claiming that the measure would cut down on “data scraping and system manipulation.”

Musk’s announcement came hours after Twitter users around the world found themselves unable to view their timelines or read comments under tweets.

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Taliban achieves what US couldn’t do with opium – media

The group’s ban on poppy farming has reportedly slashed Afghanistan’s opioid production by 80% in one year

The Taliban has reportedly accomplished in one year what America’s “war on drugs” failed to pull off in five decades: eliminating the vast majority of Afghanistan’s opium output.

Since the Taliban banned poppy farming nationwide in April 2022,

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Syria’s first lady names biggest threat to the world

Eastern societies are best-prepared to resist neoliberalism, Asma Assad told RT

Syria’s First Lady Asma Assad visited Moscow this week, as her eldest son, Hafez, graduated from the Moscow State University (MSU). Hafez received a masters diploma with honors at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, with Asma attending the ceremony.

During her visit,

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Biden admin outlines hypothetical geoengineering research program

The report, supposedly commissioned by Congress last year, was released the same day as similar comments from the EC

The US Office of Science and Technology Policy has outlined what a geonengineering program in the US might look like in a report published Friday. The researchers stressed that their work was not meant as an endorsement of such technologies,

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European king apologizes for slavery

The Dutch monarch, Willem-Alexander, said that the exploitation of people in colonial times was “crime against humanity”

King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands has marked the 160th anniversary of his country’s official abolition of slavery by issuing an historic apology for Dutch involvement in the trade.

“On this day we remember the Dutch history of slavery,” Willem-Alexander told a crowd on Saturday at the national slavery monument in Amsterdam.

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Croatian police on hunt for Kalashnikov-armed shooter

The gunman has killed one person and wounded several in the city of Sisak, official said

A Kalashnikov-armed gunman opened fire in Sisak, a town 60 kilometers from Croatia’s capital Zagreb, on Saturday evening, killing at least one person and wounding several others, police said. The suspect is at large. 

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No panic in Africa over Wagner revolt, Lavrov tells RT

Moscow can provide security directly to partner nations, the foreign minister said

There is no “panic” in African nations after last week’s turmoil in Russia involving the Wagner Group, including among governments that use the services of the private military company, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has told RT.

Some Western media outlets have claimed that governments relying on Wagner for security are seriously concerned that Moscow will crack down on the group following Saturday’s mutiny by its leader,

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Number of ‘non-binary’ students in US state skyrockets

New Jersey enrollment figures reveal a 4,000% jump in gender-non-conforming children since 2019

The number of students in New Jersey public schools who openly identify as “non-binary” has gone up by a staggering 4,000% in the past four years, according to enrollment data published by the state’s Department of Education.

The report,

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Germany to permanently deploy troops near Russia’s border

The move comes amid a NATO drive to increase their military strength on the bloc’s ‘eastern flank’

Germany’s defense minister Boris Pistorius said on Monday that Berlin is to station 4,000 troops to Lithuania, a fellow NATO member, as the bloc seeks to fortify its ranks around Russia’s exclave, Kaliningrad.

“Germany is ready to permanently station a robust brigade in Lithuania,” Pistorius said on Monday during a visit to the country’s capital,

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Australia mulls ‘fake news’ fines for Big Tech

Failure to moderate “misinformation” could hit social media giants in their pockets under a government proposal in Canberra

Social media companies like Twitter and Facebook could be hit with substantial fines under new draft legislation from the Australian government to crack down on the spread of “misinformation” and fake news on their platforms,

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