Tue 18 Apr 2023: WhatsApp’s head, Will Cathcart, has penned an open letter against the controversial Online Safety Bill. In the letter, Mr Cathcart has addressed the risks that the Online Safety Bill poses to everyone’s privacy and safety. In the letter, he urged the government to protect privacy rights and it highlighted the importance of […]
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Tue 18 Apr 2023: Air pollution impacts every stage of human life from foetal development and the cognitive abilities of teenagers to adult mental health, according to a report that synthesises the findings of more than 35,000 studies from around the world. The Environmental Research Group at Imperial College London published the review on Monday of a […]
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Mon 17 Apr 2023: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC/Radio-Canada) is suspending its activities on Twitter following the social media platform’s decision to label them as a government-funded outlet, CBC said on Monday. “Our journalism is impartial and independent. To suggest otherwise is untrue. That is why we are pausing our activities on Twitter,” CBC said […]
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Mon 17 Apr 2023: Australians were conned out of billions of dollars in 2022, according to a research that was published on Monday, According to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) Targeting scammers report, more than A$3.1 billion ($2 billion) would be lost to scammers in 2022, a record high and an increase of […]
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Mon 17 Apr 2023: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is being probed by the parliamentary standards watchdog into claims he failed to declare an interest. Sunak has been added to the list of politicians being probed by Commissioner Daniel Greenberg. The probe was launched on Thursday last week, Greenberg said. Although the parliamentary website shows […]
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Mon 17 Apr 2023: On Monday, a Russian court convicted Vladimir Kara-Murza, the Russian opposition leader and outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin, of treason. He received a 25-year prison sentence. According to Interfax, a Moscow City Court convicted the 41-year-old guilty of treason, “false information about the Russian army,” and association with a “undesirable organization.”His […]
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Mon 17 Apr 2023: Minneapolis has become the first major US city to allow all five Muslim calls to prayer, or adhans, to be played on loudspeakers. The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously 12-0 Thursday night to allow the adhan to be played from mosques despite current noise ordinances. The Minnesota chapter of the Council […]
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Sun 16 Apr 2023: The West does not provide Kyiv with all the supplies it needs because the former has “long lived in the dogma of not provoking Russia,” Ukraine’s defense minister said. In an interview with the Spanish daily La Razon, Oleksii Reznikov said that this was also the reason behind the decision not […]
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Sun 16 Apr 2023: Russian President Vladimir Putin marked Orthodox Easter Sunday by applauding the “strengthening” role of the church for society and youth, while the country’s top bishop supported the offensive in Ukraine. “I would like to express my profound gratitude for your tireless and selfless work in preserving the enduring historical, spiritual, moral […]
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Sun 16 Apr 2023: About 100,000 registered nurses in the US left the workplace due to the stresses of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the results of a survey published by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing. Another 610,388 registered nurses, who had more than 10 years of experience and an average age […]
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