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Over the last few years, Facebook has been heavily criticized for its impact on news distribution, and its subsequent influence on political and societal shifts. Now, we're about to get a case study in whether those criticisms are actually justified, with The Social Network set to block all news content in Australia due to disagreement over the Australian Government's proposed new media bargaining laws.

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Capital: Jerusalem

Currency: Israeli Shekel

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A group of angry Donald Trump supporters stormed Capitol Hill on Wednesday and clashed with police in violence that left four people dead.

They descended on the US Capitol after Trump made a speech to his supporters, imploring them to "fight'' to stop the "steal"' of the election.

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The Qatar diplomatic crisis was a diplomatic incident that began on 5 June 2017 when Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt severed diplomatic relations with Qatar and banned Qatar-registered planes and ships from utilising their airspace and sea routes, along with Saudi Arabia blocking Qatar’s only land crossing.

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A Sriwijaya Air plane crashed into the sea on 09 January 2021, minutes after taking off from Indonesia’s capital Jakarta on a domestic flight with 62 people on board, and their fate was not known.

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As per the OPEC + deal, Azerbaijan is obligated to decrease its daily oil production by 131,000 barrels from August and December

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Multiple OPEC+ countries have recently announced additional voluntary cuts to their oil production, including:

• Saudi Arabia: 1,000 barrels per day
• Iraq: 220 barrels per day
• United Arab Emirates: 163 barrels per day
• Kuwait: 135 barrels per day
• Kazakhstan: 82 barrels per day
• Algeria: 51 barrels per day
• Oman: 42 barrels per day 

These cuts are in addition to the voluntary cuts that were previously announced in April 2023 and extended until the end of 2024.

The total cut is 5.86 million barrels per day, or about 5.7% of global demand. 

OPEC+ members agreed to extend these cuts until the end of 2025

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Anna Karina was died in December 2019. 

اداکارہ اینا کرینا دسمبر 2019 میں انتقال کر گئیں۔

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The top military chief who was killed in a helicopter crash on January 2, 2020, was Gen. Shen Yi-ming of Taiwan.

The crash also killed the other senior military officials and the two pilots traveling with him.

Gen. Shen Yi-ming was 63 years old at the time of his death.