Sat 23 March 2024: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday slammed Friday’s shooting at the Crocus City Concert Hall in Moscow region as a “purposeful massacre” aimed at sowing discord in society. “The criminals, purposefully and in cold blood killed, shot our citizens and our children at point-blank range,” Putin said in a televised address […]
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Sat 23 March 2024: Over the last two years, Germany’s birth rate has drastically decreased, reaching its lowest point since 2009, the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) said on Wednesday. In 2023, the birth rate in the nation decreased from 1.57 children per woman in 2021 to around 1.36 in 2023, as per a […]
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Fri 22 March 2024: 40 people were killed and over 100 were injured when gunmen stormed into a large concert hall in Moscow and opened fire with automatic weapons, according to Russia’s official news agency TASS, which cited the Federal Security Service (FSB). The attackers reportedly used explosives as well, setting off a big fire […]
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Thu 21 March 2024: Government numbers show that New Zealand has entered its second recession in less than 18 months. New Zealand’s official statistics office reported on Thursday that the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.1 percent from October to December, after contracting by 0.3 percent in the third quarter. Government statistics show […]
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Thu 21 March 2024: 220,000 condoms will be given out by the Paris Olympics organizers to competitors who wish to get romantic during this year’s Games in the City of Love. Athletes are free to engage in sexual activity even if their primary concentration is on sports; this is in contrast to the last Olympics […]
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Thu 21 March 2024: Authorities in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region plan to close several prisons this year amid a decline in inmate numbers due to the recruitment of convicts for the war, the Kommersant newspaper reported The newspaper cited Mark Denisov, Krasnoyarsk’s regional human rights commissioner, as saying at least two local prisons would be closed […]
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Thu 21 March 2024: Cholera outbreaks worldwide are deeply linked to climate change, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said Tuesday after a meeting of a key advisory group on immunization. Dr. Kate O’Brien, the WHO’s director of immunization, vaccines and biologicals, spoke at a press conference of the organization’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts […]
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Thu 21 March 2024: Turkish authorities raided two illegal animal museums in Istanbul, seizing taxidermy specimens of polar bears, crocodiles, lions, cheetahs and bison, among numerous other wildlife. The operation, carried out by Istanbul’s smuggling police, targeted the private collections allegedly belonging to Ali Haydar Üstay, who is accused of smuggling these animals into the country via his private plane. […]
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Wed 20 March 2024: The French Defense Ministry has denied Russia’s claims that France is preparing to send 2,000 troops to Ukraine. Comments by the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) are “indicative of Russia’s systematic use of mass disinformation tactics,” the ministry told Anadolu in a written statement. Also, the statement emphasized […]
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Wed 20 March 2024: Nvidia unveiled its most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) graphics platform and software for running AI models at its developer conference Monday in San Jose, California. The US chipmaker’s new AI computing platform is named Blackwell, the successor to Hopper, and the platform’s first chip is called the GB200, which will ship […]
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