Sat 03 February 2024: In response to the rapidly spreading forest fires in the country’s center that have already claimed the lives of at least ten people, Chile has declared a state of emergency. President Gabriel Boric announced the measure on X, posting that “all forces are deployed in the fight against the forest fires.” […]
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Sat 03 February 2024: A former CIA software engineer has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for leaking classified information and possessing child sexual abuse material. Joshua Schulte, 35, was found guilty in 2022 of four counts each of espionage and computer hacking and one count of lying to FBI agents after handing over […]
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Fri 02 February 2024: A pro-Israel advert depicting “Gaza without Hamas” has been condemned by social media users. Watch our report below. SOURCE: AL JAZEERA ______________________________________________________________ FOLLOW INDEPENDENT PRESS: WhatsApp CHANNEL https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaAtNxX8fewmiFmN7N22 TWITTER (CLICK HERE) https://twitter.com/IpIndependent FACEBOOK (CLICK HERE) https://web.facebook.com/ipindependent Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!
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Fri 02 February 2024: Asian markets have rallied after the release of stronger-than-expected earnings results by Meta and Amazon sent the tech giants’ share prices surging. In Hong Kong, where stocks have slumped on weak economic indicators in mainland China, the Hang Seng Index on Friday rose around 2 percent in morning trading before paring […]
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Police say two rocks were thrown through the window of this Mississauga mosque, and are calling it a hate crime. (NCCM/X) Fri 02 February 2024: Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called an attack on a mosque in the Canadian city of Mississauga “cowardly, disturbing, and unacceptable”. “Islamophobia has no place in any of our […]
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Fri 02 February 2024: Recently, a new set of photos taken with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealed remarkably clear views of spiral galaxies in near- and mid-infrared light. New galactic architecture and materials are revealed by contrasting these new photographs in visible and ultraviolet light with earlier views captured by NASA’s other space telescope, […]
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Fri 02 February 2024: Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley clarifies that her recent viral comments regarding Texas secession were primarily aimed at addressing President Biden and the “illegal immigration crisis,” rather than speculating on Texans actively pursuing departure from the union. The day before, Haley seemed to fumble over a question regarding Texas’s potential right […]
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Thu 01 February 2024: The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Tuesday confirmed that continental Europe saw a record temperature of 48.8 C (119.8 F) in 2021. According to the findings published in the International Journal of Climatology, the temperature was recorded in Italy’s Sicily Island on Aug. 11, 2021, WMO’s media officer Clare Nullis said […]
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Thu 01 February 2024: Due to an ongoing salary dispute, security personnel at Germany’s main airports began a one-day strike on Thursday, which resulted in the cancellation of hundreds of flights, Anadolu Agency reported. Over 200,000 people were impacted by the strike, which canceled more than 1,100 flights at 11 airports, including Frankfurt, the busiest […]
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Thu 01 February 2024: All 27 EU members have agreed on an additional 50 billion euro ($54bn) support package for Ukraine, Charles Michel, president of the council of European Union leaders, said on social media platform X. “This locks in steadfast, long-term, predictable funding for Ukraine”, he added. We have a deal. #Unity All 27 […]
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