China floods: Thousands evacuated after 12 die in ‘worst rain for 1,000 years’
At least 12 people have died in severe flooding in central China caused by what weather forecasters said was the heaviest rain in a millennium.
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WORLD
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POLITICS 
July 21, 2021 Ministers to outline proposals to address NI Protocol
Ministers are preparing to outline their proposals to Parliament for solving the “serious challenges” caused by the Northern Ireland Protocol.
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GREEKS ABROAD
July 21, 2021 Anti-Vax Student Movement at Holy Cross School of Theology
BOSTON – An anti-vaccination student movement has been formed at the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Boston with between fifteen and twenty students participating. It is reported that the students are close to various monasteries in the United States, and also to a circle of fundamentalists in Greece and Cyprus who refuse […]
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CYPRUS
July 21, 2021 The Ongoing Tragedy of Cyprus
In the mid-twentieth century, Great Britain abandoned its control of a Mediterranean territory, leaving two ethnically and religiously divided populations, each with historic claims to its occupancy, to sort out competing claims of legal status and sovereign authority with little help from the international community. Unsurprisingly, intercommunal violence, the involvement of outside powers, and a […]
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EUROPE
July 21, 2021 Commission to look into Pegasus affair, Reynders says
The European Commission has decided to launch an investigation on the surveillance of EU journalists as the bloc reels from the Pegasus Project revelations released over the weekend that governments had used military spyware to intercept communications.
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HISTORY
July 21, 2021 21 July 2021: This day in history
356 BC: Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World 365: Crete Earthquake followed by tsunami around the Eastern Mediterranean allegedly destroys Alexandria 1861: First Battle of Bull Run [Battle of First Manassas], 1st major battle of the US Civil War is fought near Manassas, Virginia, Confederate victory […]
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ECONOMY
July 20, 2021 Morrisons suitor teams up with rival in £6.3bn bid attempt
Private equity firm Apollo Global Management, which confirmed it was considering a bid for Morrisons earlier this month, said it will no longer be making an offer for the supermarket.
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HEALTH
July 20, 2021 US raises UK Covid warning level to ‘very high’ and discourages travel
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has raised its Covid-19 warning level for the UK to “very high”, the highest rating on the agency’s scale measuring the amount of Covid-19 within a country.
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UK NEWS
July 20, 2021 Record number of migrants cross English Channel in one day
Dozens of men, women and children crossed the sea in small boats throughout the day, including about 50 people who arrived in a dinghy on a beach in Dungeness, Kent.
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WORLD
July 20, 2021 China plans mass rocket launch to divert asteroid that could wipe out life on Earth
Chinese researchers want to send more than 20 rockets from the country to practise diverting asteroids away from Earth.
