GLOBAL CHOLERA OUTBREAKS DEEPLY LINKED TO CLIMATE CHANGE: WHO OFFICIAL

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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TURKISH POLICE SEIZE HUNDREDS OF TAXIDERMIED ENDANGERED ANIMALS AT ILLEGAL MUSEUM

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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FRANCE DENIES SENDING 2,000 TROOPS TO UKRAINE

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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NVIDIA UNVEILS ITS MOST POWERFUL AI PLATFORM NAMED BLACKWELL

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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RUSSIA TO EVACUATE THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN FROM BELGOROD AFTER UKRAINE SHELLING

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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DO YOU HAVE 7,513 UNREAD EMAILS IN YOUR INBOX? RESEARCH SUGGESTS THAT’S UNWISE

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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PRINCESS KATE AGAIN UNDER PUBLIC SCRUTINY AFTER POST-SURGERY VIDEO

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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TESLA CEO ELON MUSK DEFENDS USING PRESCRIBED KETAMINE FOR ‘NEGATIVE FRAME OF MIND’

Tue 19 March 2024: Elon Musk has defended taking prescribed ketamine to treat his “negative frame of mind,” suggesting that his use of the drug is good for Tesla’s investors. In an at-times tense interview with former CNN host Don Lemon, Musk said that he finds the anaesthetic helpful when he is suffering from a […]

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