Sun 11 February 2024: NATO partners who don’t fulfil their financial obligations would not get protection from Russia if Donald Trump were to re-take the White House in November, statements from Trump showed. Trump, campaigning in South Carolina ahead of the GOP primary on February 24, said he had told NATO members that they needed […]
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Sun 11 February 2024: Hungary’s president Katalin Novak has been forced to resign after she pardoned a man convicted of concealing child sex abuse at a state-run children’s home. Novak announced her resignation on Saturday after coming under mounting pressure for pardoning a man convicted as an accomplice for helping cover up a sex abuse […]
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Nepali mercenaries fighting for the Russian army in Ostrykivka, village near Tokmak in Zaporizhzhia, Russian-occupied Ukraine [Photo courtesy Atit Chettri] Sun 11 February 2024: Kathmandu, Nepal – On a bitterly cold morning in early January, somewhere near Tokmak city in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, Bimal Bhandari* began a risky journey to desert the Russian army he […]
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Sat 10 February 2024: The Swedish Migration Court has confirmed that an Iraqi man who staged a series of public Quran burnings last year will be deported, local media reported Wednesday. Immigration authorities refused to extend Salwan Momika’s residence permit last October, but the order for his departure was delayed for security reasons, according to […]
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Sat 10 February 2024: US newspaper The Washington Post says it has seen internal guidance from tech giant Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, that shows a debate is occurring within the company over how to flag user posts containing the word “zionist”. The Washington Post says the move would be to “counter […]
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Fri 09 February 2024: The Kremlin said on Friday that it did not believe that a change at the top of Ukraine’s military leadership would alter the outcome of what Russia calls its special military operation in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday saidhe had replaced the country’s outgoing armed forces commander General Valeriy […]
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Fri 09 February 2024: Google released a free artificial intelligence app on Thursday that would allow individuals to write, read and perform a number of other tasks in their life without using their own minds. In a few weeks, Google will put Gemini’s features into its existing search app for iPhones, where Apple would prefer […]
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Fri 09 February 2024: At the end of the week, Bitcoin continued to rise, breaking through the $47,000 barrier for the first time in nearly two years. According to Coin Metrics, the leading cryptocurrency increased by more than 4% on Friday to reach a level not seen since March 2022: $47,307.00. Ether surged to $2,511.75, […]
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Fri 09 February 2024: Police in Brazil confiscated former President Jair Bolsonaro’s passport Thursday and accused him of attempting to overturn the country’s 2022 election results to continue in power after he lost to rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who is leading the investigation, said Bolsonaro received a […]
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Fri 09 February 2024: US President Joe Biden has defended his memory in the wake of a special counsel investigation about his handling of confidential documents that raised additional questions about his suitability for office, ahead of the presidential election in November. Biden, who is the oldest US president in history and would be 86 […]
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