📺 CNN apologizes for entering Thai massacre site
CNN pulled a story on the massacre of Thai preschoolers and apologized Sunday over criticism its journalists entered the day care where the children were slain and filmed the crime scene without permission.
The two CNN journalists involved were fined after authorities found that they had been working in the country after entering on tourist visas, but cleared of wrongdoing for entering the day care center where more than 20 children were killed, deputy national police chief Surachate Hakparn said.
They each agreed to pay fines of 5,000 baht ($133) and leave the country, he said. Both journalists apologized, as did CNN International’s executive vice president and general manager Mike McCarthy. The Thai Journalists’ Association criticized CNN’s actions as “unethical” and “insensitive,” and called for an internal company investigation of the incident in addition to the official Thai probe.
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CNN pulled a story on the massacre of Thai preschoolers and apologized Sunday over criticism its journalists entered the day care where the children were slain and filmed the crime scene without permission.
The two CNN journalists involved were fined after authorities found that they had been working in the country after entering on tourist visas, but cleared of wrongdoing for entering the day care center where more than 20 children were killed, deputy national police chief Surachate Hakparn said.
They each agreed to pay fines of 5,000 baht ($133) and leave the country, he said. Both journalists apologized, as did CNN International’s executive vice president and general manager Mike McCarthy. The Thai Journalists’ Association criticized CNN’s actions as “unethical” and “insensitive,” and called for an internal company investigation of the incident in addition to the official Thai probe.
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🌱 North Carolina Gov. Pushes For Marijuana Decriminalization
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D.)established a task force following the George Floyd riots in 2020 that recommended that state legislators replace the misdemeanor with a civil offense “akin to a traffic infraction,” but the Republican-led legislature ignored the recommendation a the time.
A bill that would have legalized marijuana for medical use was passed in the state Senate earlier this year, some lawmakers were leery of any form of legalization, warning that the bill was unclear about whether the health benefits outweighed potential health risks.
Marijuana is currently legal in 19 states, Washington, DC, and Guam despite remaining illegal at the federal level. Current N.C.law lists possession of more than 0.5 ounces as punishable by up to $1,000 in fines.
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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D.)established a task force following the George Floyd riots in 2020 that recommended that state legislators replace the misdemeanor with a civil offense “akin to a traffic infraction,” but the Republican-led legislature ignored the recommendation a the time.
A bill that would have legalized marijuana for medical use was passed in the state Senate earlier this year, some lawmakers were leery of any form of legalization, warning that the bill was unclear about whether the health benefits outweighed potential health risks.
Marijuana is currently legal in 19 states, Washington, DC, and Guam despite remaining illegal at the federal level. Current N.C.law lists possession of more than 0.5 ounces as punishable by up to $1,000 in fines.
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🇭🇺 ♨️ Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has replied to critics who lambasted him for meeting his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.
🗣 Szijjarto said that this winter, houses in Hungary will be warm, unlike those in Europe.
🤔 Szijjarto was recently criticized in the liberal media for meeting with Lavrov on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
💬 “My question is, if I don’t meet him there, who can guarantee that we can agree on a deferred payment with Gazprom? Or who guarantees that Gazprom ... will supply 5.8Mln cubic meters of gas a day?" he said.
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🗣 Szijjarto said that this winter, houses in Hungary will be warm, unlike those in Europe.
🤔 Szijjarto was recently criticized in the liberal media for meeting with Lavrov on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
💬 “My question is, if I don’t meet him there, who can guarantee that we can agree on a deferred payment with Gazprom? Or who guarantees that Gazprom ... will supply 5.8Mln cubic meters of gas a day?" he said.
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⚡️ Multiple explosions were reported in the center of Kiev, according to Ukrainian media
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⚡️ Multiple explosions were reported in the center of Kiev, according to Ukrainian media
❗️ Kiev mayor, Vitaliy Klitschko, has confirmed the blasts
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⚡️ Multiple explosions were reported in the center of Kiev, according to Ukrainian media
⚡️📸 A picture from the scene of the reported explosion in Kiev
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⚡️ Multiple explosions were reported in the center of Kiev, according to Ukrainian media
❗️ According to Kiev's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, explosions were heard in the city's center.
▪️ "Several explosions in the Shevchenko district -- in the center of the capital," Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko said on social media.
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▪️ "Several explosions in the Shevchenko district -- in the center of the capital," Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko said on social media.
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⚡️ Multiple explosions were reported in the center of Kiev, according to Ukrainian media
⚡️ Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs’s official said that one of the missiles that hit Kiev fell on Vladimirskaya Street, where the SBU office is located, stressing the nearby location of Zelensky's office
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⚡️ Ukraine's media is reporting explosions in the regions of Zhitomir and Kiev; the city's mayor has reported explosions in Dnepropetrovsk
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⚡️ Ukraine's media has reported that dozens of missiles are flying to different regions of the country
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⚡️Ukraine's media is reporting explosions in Ternopol and Khmelnitskiy
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⚡️Ukraine's media is reporting explosions in Ternopol and Khmelnitskiy
⚡️ Blasts were also reported in Lvov. Explosions in Kiev are continuing, according to Ukrainian media
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⚡️📹 Footage showing the alleged aftermath of explosions in the neighborhood of Dnepro
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📹Netizens have shared a footage of the explosions in Kiev
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⚡️ Ukrainian media, citing the authorities, report attacks on energy infrastructure facilities in the Lvov region
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⚡️ Air alert continues throughout Ukraine, new explosions reported in Kiev, Lvov and Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian media reports
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⚡️ Ukraine's media is reporting explosions in Kharkov
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⚡️ Ukrainian media reports blasts in the Rovnenskaya Region
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