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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Wed 20 March 2024: Russia plans to evacuate about 9,000 children from a border region because it is being shelled continuously by Ukraine, a local official has said. The children will be moved from the Belgorod region farther east, away from the Ukraine border, regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Tuesday. The announcement came a […]
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Wed 20 March 2024: The US Air Force said on Tuesday it had conducted a successful test of an air-launched hypersonic weapon in the Pacific Ocean. The test was conducted on Sunday after a B-52 bomber left the island of Guam carrying an Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW), the Air Force said in a statement. […]
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Tue 19 March 2024: How do you manage your emails? Are you an “inbox zero” kind of person, or do you just leave thousands of them unread? Our new study, published today in the journal Information Research, suggests that leaving all your emails in the inbox is likely to leave you dissatisfied with your personal records […]
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Tue 19 March 2024: The Princess of Wales Kate Middleton was recently seen on a video for the first time since January after abdominal surgery. The British newspaper, The Sun, recently published photographs capturing Princess Kate during a casual outing with her husband, Prince William, at a farm produce market in Windsor. While the accompanying […]
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