Thu 15 February 2024: Australians who disclose personal information about people without authority are being warned as the government expedites efforts to make “doxing” a crime. Hundreds of well-known individuals of Jewish descent who belonged to a closed WhatsApp group had their identities, images, and social media profiles leaked online. Attorney General Mark Dreyfus outlined […]
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NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation mission detected southeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that is much more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech-FILE PHOTO Thu 15 February 2024: Google and the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) have partnered to map oil […]
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Thu 15 February 2024: What constitutes a conspiracy theory? A conspiracy theory is an unreasonable belief or explanation that claims certain occurrences or situations are the product of a covert, frequently evil, and often complicated plot by a group of people or organizations. These theories often argue that powerful individuals or groups are manipulating events […]
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Thu 15 February 2024: Only months before a general election, official numbers released on Thursday revealed that the UK has entered a recession, jeopardizing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s promise of boosting economic growth. According to the Office for National Statistics, the gross domestic product shrank by 0.3% in the last three months of 2023, after […]
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Thu 15 February 2024: Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing authorities to confiscate the assets of people convicted of spreading “deliberately false information” about the military. The law, which was signed on Wednesday, targets individuals convicted of a range of offences which include “discrediting” the government and spreading “deliberately false information” about […]
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Thu 15 February 2024: Think your friends would be interested? Share this story! Eighteen NATO member states plan to meet the alliance’s target of spending the equivalent of 2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence in 2024, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said. Speaking in Brussels before a meeting of defence officials from NATO’s 31 […]
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Islamic Centre of Cambridge was hit with hate-related graffiti.Doug Coxson/CambridgeToday Thu 15 February 2024: Justin Trudeau has condemned the incident that took place at a mosque in Cambridge, Ontario. “The vandalism at the Islamic Centre of Cambridge — and the rise in Islamophobia across the country — is alarming, abhorrent, and unacceptable,” he wrote […]
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Wed 14 February 2024: Russia is increasing preparations for a possible military war with NATO within the next decade, and it intends to treble the number of troops stationed along its border with the Baltic states and Finland, Estonia’s intelligence chief claimed on Tuesday. Russia is currently unwilling to take military action against the Western […]
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Tue 13 February 2024: Russia issued a “very tough” warning to the West on Tuesday, February 13, in the event that Europe and the US seize Russian assets. In 2022, the US and the EU both seized $300 billion worth of Russian assets after Moscow decided to invade Ukraine. Russia issued the warning one day […]
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Tue 13 February 2024: The Elon Musk-owned company X has revealed that its Creator Targeting program will soon allow advertisers to place advertisements next to specific content providers on the network. With this change, advertisers will be able to stop their advertising from showing up next to objectionable or controversial material. “Soon, advertisers on X […]
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