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President Biden’s video featuring clips from a Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) speech to tout his legislative accomplishments reached more than 30 million views in 12 hours after it was posted Tuesday evening, according to statistics first shared with The Hill. The video received the second-highest impressions on a Biden video since he was inaugurated, only behind his reelection campaign launch video that dropped in April. The video received more than 34 million views as of Wednesday around 10:30 a.m. and more than 10 million of those were in the first three hours since it dropped. It also received more than 200,000 shares and more than 2 million engagements as of Wednesday morning. FULL STORY

Hunter Biden’s lawyer filed an ethics complaint against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) Friday, requesting that an ethics watchdog “immediately” initiate a review of Greene’s conduct after she showed sexually explicit photos of Biden at a congressional hearing this week. In a letter to the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), Biden attorney Abbe David Lowell slammed Greene’s actions as “abhorrent behavior that blatantly violates House Ethics rules and standards of official conduct.” “This week, your colleague has lowered herself, and by extension the entire House of Representatives, to a new level of abhorrent behavior that blatantly violates House Ethics rules and standards of official conduct. If the OCE takes its responsibilities seriously, it will promptly and decisively condemn and discipline Ms. Greene for her latest actions,” Lowell wrote. FULL STORY

A prominent Russian pro-war blogger who has criticized President Vladimir Putin and his military’s mishaps in Ukraine was arrested on Friday, in a move that suggested the Kremlin’s patience with dissent has grown thinner in the wake of the Wagner mercenary rebellion last month. Igor Girkin, a former KGB officer who helped Russia seize Crimea and was convicted of mass murder for his role in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine, was taken from his home in Moscow by security agents on Friday and charged with “extremist activity,” according to state media and a post on his Telegram account attributed to his wife. Girkin, who also goes by the nom de guerre Igor Strelkov, is among the best-known of Russia’s “milbloggers,” a group of war correspondents who support the invasion but have grown increasingly critical of the military’s faltering operations in Ukraine. Girkin had in recent months taken his criticisms to another level, lambasting the Russian state and even Putin himself. FULL STORY

A few years ago, Cambodia's ruler launched the most ruthless crackdown of his career to annihilate his opponents. Facing popular opposition, Hun Sen used the courts to dismantle the political party threatening his rule. Ranks of MPs were thrown out of parliament while the leaders were arrested. Having crushed his rivals, he cruised to victory six months later at the 2018 election, winning all 125 seats in Cambodia's parliament. For voters heading to the polls again this Sunday - it's déjà vu with their only alternative banned. "It's a rigged election because there are no real strong opposition parties," one voter, an aid worker in Phnom Penh, told the BBC. Hun Sen, now 70, has ruled Cambodia since 1985. A former Khmer Rouge official who defected to Vietnam before the regime's fall, his survivalist grip on power has led to his boast that he is the world's longest-serving prime minister. For nearly 40 years, he has consolidated power through a network of interests, including the military, police and intelligence groups. FULL STORY

Seven leading companies in artificial intelligence have committed to managing risks posed by the tech, the White House has said. This will include testing the security of AI, and making the results of those tests public. Representatives from Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI joined US President Joe Biden to make the announcement. It follows a number of warnings about the capabilities of the technology. The pace at which the companies have been developing their tools have prompted fears over the spread of disinformation, especially in the run up to the 2024 US presidential election. "We must be clear-eyed and vigilant about the threats emerging from emerging technologies that can pose - don't have to but can pose - to our democracy and our values," President Joe Biden said during remarks on Friday. On Wednesday, Meta, Facebook's parent company, announced its own AI tool called Llama 2. Sir Nick Clegg, president of global affairs at Meta, told the BBC the "hype has somewhat run ahead of the technology". FULL STORY

A series of climate records on temperature, ocean heat, and Antarctic sea ice have alarmed some scientists who say their speed and timing is "unprecedented". Dangerous heatwaves sweeping Europe could break further records, according to the UN. It is hard to immediately link these events to climate change because weather - and the Earth's oceans - are so complex. Studies are underway, but scientists already fear some worst-case scenarios are unfolding. "I'm not aware of a similar period when all parts of the climate system were in record-breaking or abnormal territory," Thomas Smith, an environmental geographer at London School of Economics, says. "The Earth is in uncharted territory" now due to global warming from burning fossil fuels, as well as heat from the first El Niño - a warming natural weather system - since 2018, says Imperial College London climate science lecturer Dr Paulo Ceppi. Here are four climate records broken so far this summer - and what they mean. FULL STORY

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Cracks between the two emerged after the diplomat's public criticism of Ukraine's president days ago. Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday dismissed Ukraine's ambassador to the United Kingdom, Vadim Pristaiko. Pristaiko was a key figure in relations between Kyiv and London, one of its primary European allies. In an interview on Sky News days before he was sacked, Pristaiko criticised Zelenskyy for his "sarcasm", while discussing contentious comments by UK defence secretary Ben Wallace. The outgoing British official said people wanted Kyiv to show more gratitude for the massive amounts of support given by allies, during a NATO summit in Vilnius. He quipped the UK is not "an Amazon" delivery service for weapons for Ukraine.

The UK's ruling Conservative Party loses two out of three by-elections as support for the main opposition Labour Party soars ahead of the 2024 general election. Thursday was a bad day for the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak although not as bad as some people had predicted. Many thought his ruling Conservative Party would lose former PM Boris Johnson's old seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip on the outskirts of London. That didn't happen but it was a close contest for a constituency regarded as a 'safe' Tory seat. In the end, there was a 6.7% swing to Labour but the Conservatives won it by 495 votes. However, elsewhere the ruling party was heavily defeated. In the Yorkshire seat of Selby and Ainsty, the main opposition Labour Party made history by overturning a 20,137 majority to win the seat. And in Somerton and Frome in the southwest of England, the Liberal Democrats overturned a majority of more than 19,000 to take the seat.

The Florida federal judge overseeing the Espionage Act and obstruction of justice case against former president Donald Trump has rejected the disgraced ex-president’s bid to delay his trial until after the 2024 election. US District Judge Aileen Cannon on Friday issued an order granting the government’s request to set a speedy trial date and schedule for pretrial motions, with a start date of 20 May 2024. Prosecutors with the office of Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith had asked for her to set a December 2023 trial date, four months after the August date she’d put on the court’s calendar shortly after Mr Trump and his co-defendant Walt Nauta first appeared in a Miami courtroom to answer the 38-count indictment charging the ex-president with unlawfully retaining national defence information, and charging both him and Mr Nauta with conspiracy and obstruction of justice offences. Full Story

Tony Bennett, the legendary New York pop and jazz singer, has died aged 96. Bennett was known for songs such as The Way You Look Tonight, Body and Soul and (I Left My Heart) In San Francisco. He also collaborated with star performers from Lady Gaga to Aretha Franklin and Frank Sinatra, who called him "the best singer in the business". During a career that spanned eight decades, the crooner sold millions of records and won 20 Grammys, including a lifetime achievement award. Tony Bennett obituary: 'The best singer in the business' His death was confirmed by his publicist Sylvia Weiner in a statement to the Associated Press.

Why Shared Hosting Might be Slowing Down Your Business As businesses grow, they require more resources to support their online presence.Shared hosting, such as cPanel hosting plans, may be a viable option for small websites with low traffic. However, as a business expands, shared hosting may become unreliable, slow, and insecure. This is where a Virtual Private Server (VPS) comes in. A VPS is a virtual server that runs its own operating system, allowing businesses to have full control over their hosting environment. This means that businesses can customize their server to their specific needs, install their own software, and have dedicated resources for their website. One reason why businesses should choose a VPS over shared hosting is the level of security it provides. With shared hosting, websites are vulnerable to attacks from otherwebsites on the same server. A VPS, on the other hand, provides a dedicated and isolated environment, making it less susceptible to hacking attempts and network attacks. Another advantage of using a VPS is the speed and performance it provides. Shared hosting plans may have limitations on the amount of resources available to businesses,resulting in slow loading times and poor website performance.With a VPS, businesses have dedicated resources and can choose the specifications that fit their website's needs. This results in faster loading times and a better user experience for visitors. 21st-Thailand Web Hosting offers reliable and affordable VPS hosting plans for businesses of all sizes. The VPS plans come with full root access, allowing businessesto have complete control over their virtual or dedicated server. In addition, 21st-Thailand Web Hosting provides excellent customer support, with a team of experts available 24/7 to assist businesses with any issues they may encounter. In conclusion, businesses should choose a VPS over shared hosting for security, speed, performance, scalability, and control. With 21st-Thailand Web Hostings reliable and affordable VPS plans, businesses can have the peace of mind that their website is in good hands.

Personalised Learning Why personalised learning is the right path for your child’s education When we talk about personalised learning, we are referring to a style of education where every aspect of the curriculum and the way it is delivered is focused on the individual needs of each child. This doesn’t mean that pupils have a choice about what, where and how they learn, as some mistakenly think. Rather, it is an educational approach that is based on differentiation and individualisation as the paths to better outcomes for every child. What are differentiation and individualisation? Within the context of education, differentiation is the term used for a type of learning where the teaching is tailored to meet the learning needs, preferences and goals of individual children. However, whilst the academic goals for each year group of children are the same, the teacher has the flexibility to use whatever resources and approaches they see fit to connect with individual children. Sometimes this may be based on practises that have proved successful for similar children in the past, or the teacher may come up with a completely novel approach. At its core, differentiation may be defined as an awareness of and active response to children’ varied learning styles. When learning is individualised, the teaching is calibrated to meet the unique pace of the children in any one class. In a class there may be children who need to go over a topic again, pupils who have mastered the topic and are ready for the next, and those children who need to learn at a slower pace, or who only learn when they are able to feel fully immersed in the topic. The personalised approach and learning styles A personalised learning environment includes all of the above and more. As a result, it is an educational approach that nurtures the needs of each child, because it is adaptable to their learning style. The four learning styles and preferences teachers encounter most frequently are: Visual, Auditory, Kinaesthetic and Reading/Writing. The reading/writing learner prefers learning through words in books and online, and are drawn to expressing themselves through writing. The visual learner uses sight and observation, and likes pictures, diagrams and videos. They understand information better when it’s presented in a visual way. Auditory learners tend to learn better when the subject matter is reinforced by sound. They learn through listening to information, so audio books and reading aloud in class are perfect for them. The kinaesthetic child learns through doing things. They like to touch and to construct things, in order to understand them better. In an ideal world, personalised learning would be on a one-to-one basis, but as this is unrealistic for the majority of parents, the next best thing is a school that has a personalised learning approach at its heart. At St. Andrews Sathorn you can be sure your child will develop the confidence to learn, because the teachers will interact with them at their own pace and adapt topics to their preferred style of learning. At St. Andrews International School Sathorn, all our teaching staff are experienced in supporting these varied learning styles and have access to a range of tools that allow them to offer a personalised education experience to every child. Visit St. Andrews Sathorn for a personal tour To discover how our personalised learning approach works and the other benefits that St. Andrews Sathorn can offer your child/children please come and meet us by scheduling a personalised school tour. You can make an appointment via the Visit Sathorn form on our homepage, or call us. A virtual tour is also available for overseas parents moving to Bangkok. Personalised learning at St. Andrews https://www.standrewssathorn.com/personalised-learning/

Following the revelation of an unclassified FBI document exposing President Biden's suspected involvement in an international bribery plot on Thursday, Republicans quickly started attacking him, with some calling for his impeachment. The FD-1023 form, which was made public earlier in the day by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, described how Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, allegedly "coerced" Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky to give them millions of dollars in exchange for their assistance in getting the Ukrainian prosecutor looking into the company fired. Most dishonest household ever to occupy the White House! Impeach!" Rep. Jim Banks, a Republican from Indiana, and Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Republican from Colorado, both stated on Twitter, "Read and realise just how deep the corruption goes. Biden ought to be removed from office. Impeach!" Conservative firebrand Kari Lake, a former candidate for governor of Arizona, said that former President Donald Trump was impeached for Joe Biden's "crimes" and that the president was also guilty of "extortion" and "treason" in addition to bribery. Is this the reason Biden wants America to be involved in the conflict in Ukraine? Joe Biden is corrupt and a criminal! Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., tweeted that "He is heading us into WW3 [because Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy has proof of further Biden crimes]. Republicans can no longer postpone, but 218 Republican votes are required to pass. The American people and I have both been there since the beginning. "IMPEACH BIDEN!" Prior to the publication of the paper, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., advocated for the impeachment of Biden, stating that he "NEEDS to be impeached" due to the "evidence and testimony" she had seen while serving on the House Oversight Committee looking into the Biden family finances. Copyright 07.21.2023

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Thursday denied making a promise to former President Trump that the House would vote to expunge his impeachments, shooting down a report that said the GOP leader pledged the vote as a way to temper tensions with the former president. “There’s no deal,” McCarthy told reporters Thursday, “but I’ve been very clear from long before when I voted against impeachments, that they did it for purely political purposes.” “I support expungement, but there’s no deal out there,” he added. His comments contradict a Thursday morning report from Politico Playbook that McCarthy assured Trump that the House would vote to erase his impeachments, citing a source close to Trump and familiar with the conversation. In the report, the vow was characterized as part of the Speaker’s effort to reconcile with Trump in the wake of an interview late last month that landed him in hot water with the former president; McCarthy had said he was unsure if Trump was the “strongest” person to beat President Biden in 2024. FULL STORY

A House hearing Thursday featuring Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. brought the complicated debate about balancing free speech with fighting misinformation to center stage. Some of the debate played out in real time among members of Congress and the hearing witness. A House hearing Thursday featuring Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. brought the complicated debate about balancing free speech with fighting misinformation to center stage. Some of the debate played out in real time among members of Congress and the hearing witness. “If you want to cut him off and censor him some more, you’re welcome to do it,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said, eliciting laughs in the room. Kennedy’s extensive history of sharing anti-vaccine views online was the center of Thursday’s debate over how social media companies moderate content. FULL STORY

Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon. The government is seeking to update the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) 2016. It wants messaging services to clear security features with the Home Office before releasing them to customers. The act lets the Home Office demand security features are disabled, without telling the public. Under the update, this would have to be immediate. Currently, there has to be a review, there can also be an independent oversight process and a technology company can appeal before taking any action. Because of the secrecy surrounding these demands, little is known about how many have been issued and whether they have been complied with. But many messaging services currently offer end-to-end encryption - so messages can be unscrambled by only the devices sending and receiving them. FULL STORY

The White House has confirmed that Ukraine is using US cluster bombs against Russian forces in the country. National Security Spokesman John Kirby said initial feedback suggested they were being used "effectively" on Russian defensive positions and operations. Cluster bombs scatter multiple bomblets and are banned by more than 100 states due to their threat to civilians. The US agreed to supply them to boost Ukrainian ammunition supplies. Ukraine has promised the bombs will only be used to dislodge concentrations of Russian enemy soldiers. "They are using them appropriately," Mr Kirby said. "They're using them effectively and they are actually having an impact on Russia's defensive formations and Russia's defensive manoeuvring. I think I can leave it at that." The US decided to send cluster bombs after Ukraine warned that it was running out of ammunition during its summer counter-offensive, which has been slower and more costly than many had hoped. President Joe Biden called the decision "very difficult", while its allies the UK, Canada, New Zealand and Spain opposed their use. FULL STORY

A video of two tribal women being paraded naked and subjected to blatant acts of sexual assault by a mob of men in the violence-hit northeastern state of Manipur has triggered outrage in India. The widely shared footage led prime minister Narendra Modi to address the country in some of his first remarks since the conflict broke out in Manipur, saying the incident “shamed India” and that the guilty won’t be spared. “I assure the nation, the law will take its course with all its might. What happened with the daughters of Manipur can never be forgiven,” he said ahead of the opening of the monsoon session of the Indian parliament. The incident reportedly took place on 4 May in the early stages of the violence that erupted between the Meitei and Kuki communities after some Kukis protested against calls by the mostly Hindu Meitei community to be granted protected tribal status. Since then the state has been effectively torn in two, with more than 140 people killed and over 40,000 displaced as both communities engaged in attacks on each other’s residences and vehicles, burning down churches and temples. Full Story

The Home Office refuses to remove veteran’s Rwanda deportation threat despite the policy being ruled illegal The White House has said it will make sure Afghan veterans who supported the US are taken care of – while the British government continues to stall in the case of an Afghan pilot who has been threatened with deportation to Rwanda. The pilot, who risked his life on combat missions in support of coalition forces, has been left in limbo and has been threatened with removal after he arrived in Britain on a small boat because of the lack of safe legal routes. After the UK rejected his first application to remain, Washington is now considering his case after his US supervisor made a personal recommendation and described him as a “true patriot to his nation”. Full Story

Summer at the movies is a time for big-budget blockbusters, but this year an independent drama with religious undertones is both competing with the likes of Indiana Jones and causing a political stir. Sound of Freedom tells the story of a government agent who busts a child sexual abuse ring operating in Colombia. The main character is based on Timothy Ballard, a former Department of Homeland Security agent who founded an anti-human trafficking organisation, Operation Underground Railroad (OUR). He goes undercover, and some of the gritty action scenes in the Colombian jungle wouldn't look out of place in a more conventional Hollywood flick. The review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes gives the movie a critic score of 77%. But this is not a typical summer blockbuster. A string of conspiratorial comments by the leading actor Jim Caviezel and the movie's themes have turned the film into another culture war flashpoint. FULL ARTICLE