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Days after the activist-for-hire Licypriya Kangujam’s father was arrested for duping nearly 100 children from 12 countries under the garb of activism, the deceitful methods employed by the duo to hog limelight and favourable publicity have come to fore. The father and the daughter have been exaggerating their manipulated accomplishments and using run-of-the-mill acknowledgements from reputed organisations to spin a web of lies around their achievement.

On Thursday, former US President Donald Trump said that he is vindicated of his earlier pronouncement about the Coronavirus: ‘China Virus had come from a Wuhan Lab’. He also slammed Dr. Anthony Fauci after his released emails pointed out that he was aware of research on the virus being done in the Chinese laboratory and that he had rejected the lab origin theory despite being made by several people.

On Saturday (June 5), Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was heckled by one activist Laura Loomer during the Bitcoin 2021 conference organised in Miami in the United States. The incident took place after Loomer was aghast at the censorship rules of the micro-blogging site.

The Washington Post has issued a correction on its 2020 report, which criticised Republican Senator Tom Cotton for defending the claim that the Covid-19 virus may have escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.

As England’s biggest vaccination centre broke the prioritization policy to inoculate everyone in the 18-30 age group, thousands of Britishers reached the Twickenham Stadium located in southwest London resulting in absolute mayhem.

The origins of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) which has left around 3.5 million dead and more than 168 million affected around the world remains a mystery. ‘What is the origin of the virus that has ravaged the world’ remains a widely debated topic, with some scientists and politicians maintaining that the possibility of a lab leak of the deadly virus exists.

A radicalised Islamist knifeman who stabbed a policewoman and then went on the run with her handgun has been shot dead by police in France. The man, named by Le Figaro as Ndiaga Dieye, aged 39, launched the attack inside a police station in La Chappelle-sur-Erdre, near the city of Nantes, around 10am - leaving her with life-threatening wounds though she is expected to survive.

An Israeli airstrike on Saturday targeted and destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of The Associated Press and other media outlets.

AP’s president said the agency was “shocked and horrified” at the strike.

The heightened escalation of the violence could have been dealt with if people in power and peacebuilding initiatives between Israel and Palestine would have correctly assessed that the precursor to the recent violence actually took place in the last week of April when Orthodox Jews were being attacked. Arabs filmed these attacks – knocking off their hats, hitting and also throwing stones – on the Orthodox Jews and posted them on the TikTok app. This led to a far-right protest near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem on April 22.

After greater than 1000 rockets rained from the Gaza Strip on Central Israel on Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror teams should “pay a dear price” for his or her assaults on Israeli civilians.

Israel has vowed to extend retaliatory assault to carry a ‘total long-term quiet’ earlier than continuing with any truce.