French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop celebrates in Berlin with the Golden Bear for Best Film awarded for the documentary, Dahomey. Sun 25 February 2024: The top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival went to Mati Diop’s Franco-Senegalese documentary Dahomey, which explores the complex issues surrounding Europe’s return of looted treasures to Africa. At a lavish […]
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Sat 24 February 2024: Members of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Security and Defence have been asked to have their mobile phones checked for spyware in an internal email from the parliament’s IT department seen by dpa. Traces found in two devices require “special attention,” the European Parliament said on Wednesday. Members and staff of […]
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Sat 24 February 2024: A hate crime monitoring group in the UK recorded over 2,000 anti-Muslim cases since Oct. 7, according to a statement issued on Thursday. “Tell MAMA recorded over 2,000 anti-Muslim cases in the four months that followed Hamas’s deadly terror attacks on October 7. This is the largest recorded number of cases […]
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Fri 23 February 2024: Alexey Navalny’s mother has said, she is under pressure from Russian authorities to bury the opposition leader’s body in “secret”. Lyudmila Navalnaya said that she was given permission to see her son’s body in the morgue by Russian officials in a video message that was uploaded on YouTube on Thursday. She […]
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A cross spray-painted on his shirt, Nathaniel Veltman in custody at London police headquarters. Fri 23 February 2024: A Canadian white supremacist who killed four members of a Muslim family by running them over on purpose has been given a life term in jail. In November, Nathaniel Veltman, 23, was found guilty on four counts […]
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Fri 23 February 2024: Bobi, who was proclaimed the world’s oldest dog, had his title revoked due to debate over his true age. Bobi, who lived in Portugal, was 30 years and 268 days old when he was named the world’s oldest by Guinness World Records (GWR) in February. He died in October 2023, at […]
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Thu 22 February 2024: The amount of global debt climbed to a record high of $313 trillion last year, according to a report by the Institute of International Finance (IIF) on Wednesday. “Over $15 trillion was added to the global debt mountain last year, bringing the total to a new record high of $313 trillion,” […]
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Thu 22 February 2024: On February 19, the UK government announced new regulations banning cell phones from all English schools. The government of Rishi Sunak will assist head teachers in monitoring student use of mobile devices during the school day, particularly during break. The goal of the new policy is to ensure that every school […]
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Thu 22 February 2024: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny may have been killed with a single punch to the heart, a “hallmark of the KGB,” according to a human rights activist claiming to have insider intel. The Kremlin’s fiercest critic was found with bruising on his head and chest consistent with the “one-punch” technique, Vladimir […]
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Wed 21 February 2024: On June 5, banknotes featuring the king’s portrait will be released for the first time, the Bank of England has said. There will be no modifications made to the current designs of the £5, £10, £20, and £50 banknotes; instead, the portrait of Charles will remain present. The late Queen Elizabeth […]
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