Mon 26 February 2024: Dozens of families who once lived in the IS ‘caliphate’ in Syria urging their governments to rescue them from barricaded camps manned by armed guards, Sky News reported. This report comes from our special correspondent Alex Crawford… Tens of thousands of women, many of them Western and once married to Islamic State […]
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Mon 26 February 2024: In the last two years, 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have lost their lives fighting Russia, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said on Sunday. Speaking at a forum in the capital Kyiv, Zelenskyy said, 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers “have died in this war.” “Not 300,000 or 150,000, or whatever (Russian President Vladimir) Putin and […]
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Mon 26 February 2024: Sweden’s birthrate last year fell to a level not seen in two decades, which resulted in the slowest population increase since 2021, Swedish Television (SVT) reported on Friday. “The number of births in 2023 was the lowest since 2003, but then the population was also nearly 1.6 million smaller than today,” […]
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Mon 26 February 2024: Scientists have discovered a new and wonderfully complete fossil believed to be from a 16ft (5m) long aquatic reptile that lived during the Triassic epoch. According to scientists, the creature is approximately 240 million years old and has been dubbed a “dragon” due to its very long neck. It is also […]
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Mon 26 February 2024: A man was taken to the hospital after the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) said he set himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy Sunday afternoon. Around 1 p.m., MPD officers responded to the 3500 block of International Drive, NW, to assist the United States Secret Service (USSS) after an individual set […]
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Sun 25 February 2024: On Saturday, Donald Trump defeated Nikki Haley once more, this time in South Carolina, the former governor’s home state. Shortly after the polls closed at 7 p.m. local time, the Associated Press declared Trump the winner of the Republican presidential primary. The former president won his primary opponent’s home state by […]
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Archbishop Andrzej Dzięga. Warsaw, March 2019. Photo. Episkopat.pl Sun 25 February 2024: A Polish archbishop who was accused of covering up child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church resigned, and Pope Francis accepted his resignation, Vatican statement said on Saturday. “Holy Father Francis accepted the resignation of Archbishop Andrzej Dziega from serving as Archbishop […]
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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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