Monday, August 3, 2020

Dirty tricks and the 2020 election: lessons from the KGB

Feeding incendiary documents to news outlets. Infiltrating activist groups. Sowing division and confusion. It might sound like a recap of Russia's efforts to meddle in the 2016 US election, but some of these same tactics were laid bare in a CNN television report on Soviet disinformation efforts back in 1983.

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Sunday, August 2, 2020

It's the 'Sweat' you drink. And it's loved in Asia.



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He's probably been in more movies than any actor in history



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Bollywood star discharged from hospital

Amitabh Bachchan, one of India's most famous film stars, says he has tested negative for Covid-19 and been discharged from hospital.

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Bolsonaro says he has 'mold' in his lungs

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday he felt weak and might have "mold in the lung" having spent weeks in isolation after catching Covid-19.

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The fastest manned aircraft ever

Bold, black and blazing fast: The North American X-15 was a plane unlike any other. And although it first flew over 60 years ago, it is still the quickest manned aircraft ever to fly.

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Millions locked down in Melbourne to fight a soaring coronavirus outbreak

The premier of Victoria plunged Australia's second-largest state into a "state of disaster" on Sunday, announcing even stricter lockdown measures, introducing a nightly curfew and banning virtually all trips outdoors after the region announced 671 new infections in a single day.

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Can we grow a third set of teeth?