Sat 29 Apr 2023: Türkiye has selected Alper Gezeravcı and Tuva Cihangir Atasever as the country’s first space travelers to be sent into space in the last quarter of this year, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced on Saturday. Speaking at the country’s major technology event TEKNOFEST, he said Gezeravci, a pilot in the Turkish Air Force, will […]
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Sat 29 Apr 2023: Following a suspected drone attack on a fuel storage tank, a massive fire broke out in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol. The fire was given the highest rating in terms of how difficult it will be to extinguish, according to Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Russian-installed governor, on Telegram on Saturday. The […]
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Sat 29 Apr 2023: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a decree formally increasing the maximum sentence for treason to life in jail, part of a drive to suppress dissent since the start of the war in Ukraine. The decree was posted on the Kremlin website. Lawmakers had already voted to boost the longest […]
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Fri 28 Apr 2023: An apartment building in the central Ukrainian city of Uman was been hit during a series of early morning airstrikes across the country on Friday, killing at least 20 people, according to Ukraine’s Internal Affairs Ministry. The commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, Valery Zaluzhny, said Ukraine managed to shoot down 21 […]
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Fri 28 Apr 2023: Richard Sharp has resigned as BBC chair after an official report found he breached the rules for public appointments. He said he was quitting to “prioritise the interests” of the broadcaster after the report by Adam Heppinstall was published. Barrister Adam Heppinstall was appointed by the Commissioner of Public Appointments to investigate the claims […]
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Fri 28 Apr 2023: Saudi oil giant Aramco has displaced American technology giant Microsoft to become the world’s second-largest company by market value at 7.92 trillion Saudi Riyals (2.11 trillion dollars) as the company’s stock prices hit 36 Saudi Riyals (9.60 dollars) on Wednesday, local media reported. Apple still holds the top of the ranking, […]
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Thu 27 Apr 2023: Turkiye’s first nuclear power plant, Akkuyu, has been officially granted nuclear facility status with the delivery of the first nuclear fuel to the plant site, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday, Anadolu News Agency reports. “With the delivery of nuclear fuels by air and sea to our power plant, Akkuyu has now […]
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Thu 27 Apr 2023: More than 6,500 rapes and sexual assaults have been recorded in hospitals in England and Wales, over nearly four years, with only 4.1% of suspects known to have been charged. A Women’s Rights Network report, authored by University of Reading Professor of Criminology, Jo Phoenix, found that one in seven of these […]
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Image Credit: InfoMigrants Thu 27 Apr 2023: Stockholm, Sweden – Murhaf Hamid had hoped he could earn enough money to buy a pizza with friends when he started selling “majblommor” flower pins in southern Sweden. Children aged 9 to 12 sell the pins as part of an annual campaign by Majblomman, Sweden’s oldest charity, to combat […]
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Thu 27 Apr 2023: Pope Francis took unprecedented decisions Wednesday for a pivotal bishops meeting, for the first time giving women the right to vote. The pontiff approved modifications to the norms governing the Synod of Bishops, a Vatican body that gathers the world’s bishops together for periodic meetings, the Vatican said in a statement. Changes […]
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