Today's World News
To Start off
At least 91 killed, scores wounded in separate bombings across Baghdad - At least 91 people were killed Sunday in two bombings in the Iraqi capital, including a large-scale attack claimed by the Islamic State group that killed 86 people -- among them 15 children -- in a central shopping district, officials said.
The bombings demonstrated the extremists' ability to mount significant attacks despite major battlefield losses, including the city of Fallujah, which was declared "fully liberated" from IS just over a week ago. Know more
JAMAICA TO INSTALL WEED VENDING MACHINES AT AIRPORTS
Instead of landing and having to ask strangers where “the plug” is, you’ll find it conveniently plugged into the wall nearby. The Jamaican government is looking over a proposal to install cannabis kiosks in Jamaican airports. Only one year ago, the Jamaican House of Representatives passed a law that made possession of 2 ounces of marijuana legal. Know more
Knife-armed Buddhist mob attack Muslims and set Myanmar mosque ablaze - Buddhists in anti-muslim attack as Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi is criticised.
A crowd of Buddhists has set fire to a mosque in the north of Myanmar, furious that a Muslim place of worship was built near a Buddhist pagoda in the predominantly Buddhist country. The attack happened on Friday, 1 July, in the village of Hpakhant in Kachin state. Know more
Belgian Citizens Lose Right To Not Be Tracked By Facebook - Facebook is now free to track users’ internet activity regardless of whether they are signed into the social network after a Brussels appeals court dismissed an earlier ruling banning the practice.
The Belgian Commission for the Protection of Privacy implemented a rule forbidding Facebook from tracking users’ behavior — such as engagement, likes, and shares — via cookies in browser plugins that collect data even if the user isn’t logged in. Facebook faced a €250,000 (now approximately $277,500) daily penalty for continuing the practice. Know more
Skydivers fall to their deaths in Olympic rings performance in Brazil - The tragedy occurred on Wednesday when a group of 28 people attempted to form the famous five rings associated with the Olympics. Know more
While The Spotlight Was On Offshore Drilling, Fracking Quietly Made Its Way Into Our Oceans - The Gulf of Mexico has been struggling with the pollution from offshore oil drilling for a long time, a struggle that was dramatically highlighted by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill six years ago.
But now it has come to light that the oil industry is conducting offshore fracking in the Gulf, which is even more dangerous than conventional oil drilling, according to the Center for Biological Diversity. The group received copies of more than a thousand fracking permits from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) following a court order. Know more
Controversial exports in German arms report: newspaper - Qatar and Saudi Arabia received controversial German arms exports worth several billions last year, according to a major Sunday newspaper. Germany's military sales as a whole nearly doubled compared to 2014.
The "Welt am Sonntag" newspaper said Sunday that a 180-page German Economic Ministry report to be tabled in Cabinet on Wednesday itemized 7.8 billion euros ($8.7 billion) in German arms exports. Know more
Half of working Britain has seen no rise in living standards since early 2000s - Squeeze on earnings and rising housing costs have hit family budgets, fuelling disillusionment at economic and political status quo
Weak income growth and rising housing costs have effectively wiped out any gains for low and middle income working age households since the early 2000s, providing the backdrop to disillusionment with the political and economic status quo, according to a major new report published today (Tuesday) by the Resolution Foundation in the aftermath of the UK’s Brexit vote. Know more
Iranian military official: We have 100,000 missiles in Lebanon ready to hit Israel
According to Hossein Salami, deputy commander of the IRGC, "the opportunity to destroy Israel is now better than ever." Know more
There you have it our Top News of the day.
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Today's Historic Event
3rd July 1998
UK Rolls Royce Sold To Volkswagen
After many months of negotiations, together with a bidding war with BMW and high court battles Rolls Royce is sold to Volkswagen for £479m. Volkswagen has stated that the manufacture of Rolls Royce cars will continue at Rolls-Royce's Crewe headquarters in England. The Saga of who owned the rights to produce cars with the famous Rolls Royce emblem continued for the next few years as unknown to Volkswagen they had not bought the rights to use the RR Logo. Over the next few years BMW and Volkswagen did come to an arrangement where Volkswagen own and build Bentleys with Volkswagen Engines at the old Rolls Royce factory in Crewe in England and BMW own and produce Rolls Royce Cars with BMW engines at Goodwood in Englan
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