Tue 04 Apr 2023: Tuesday will see Finland become the 31st member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which will significantly alter the security situation in northeastern Europe and extend the alliance’s border with Russia by about 1,300 kilometers (830 miles). The Nordic nation’s accession will be completed during a formal ceremony at NATO headquarters […]
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Tue 04 Apr 2023: On Tuesday, the Australian government decided to forbid its employees from using TikTok, a Chinese video-sharing app, on their mobile devices. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus announced in a statement that he had approved the issuance of a mandatory directive for Commonwealth departments and agencies to forbid the Chinese app from being installed […]
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Mon 03 Apr 2023: Save the Children says at least 501 Ukrainian children have been killed in the war but the actual number is feared to be much higher. A report by the non-governmental organisation found that since February 2022, at least one child has died daily with “explosive weapons” being the main cause. “In […]
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Mon 03 Apr 2023: Finland will formally join NATO on Tuesday, and the country’s flag will be raised at the alliance’s headquarters, according to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Speaking to reporters ahead of the two-day meeting of NATO foreign ministers, Stoltenberg said the bloc was looking forward to a “historic week” and stated that […]
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Mon 03 Apr 2023: Passport Office workers are beginning a five-week strike in the increasingly bitter civil service dispute over jobs, pay, pensions and conditions. More than 1,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) at eight sites are walking out in an escalation of the long-running row, The Independent reported. Picket lines […]
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Mon 03 Apr 2023: Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has said that his government will “teach America a lesson” in the upcoming Turkish elections next month, taking aim at Washington after its Ambassador visited the leading opposition candidate. Speaking at the opening ceremony of his ally, the Nationalist Movement Party’s (MHP) youth branch, the ultra-nationalist […]
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Muslims walk away from the Madrid’s Islamic Cultural Center after the Friday prayer on January 30, 2015. Mon 03 April 2023: Secretary of the Islamic Commission of Spain said that the Muslim population living in Spain has increased 10 times in the last 30 years, exceeding 2.5 million. Mohamed Ajana told Anadolu that according to […]
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Mon 03 Apr 2023: Russia’s Investigative Committee says Darya Trepova, a suspect in the killing of war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky in a St Petersburg bomb blast on Sunday, has been detained. Russian officials said Tatarsky was killed as he led a discussion at a cafe. Investigators believe that the bomb was hidden in a bust of the […]
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Mon 03 Apr 2023: NATO has officially banned the social media app TikTok from the devices it provides to its employees, citing security concerns. as per two NATO officials who were familiar with the matter. NATO officials confirmed that a note announcing the ban on TikTok was sent to the staff on Friday. The note […]
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Mon 03 Apr 2023: After the National Education Union’s pay offer was decisively rejected by teachers, parents in England face another wave of strikes and school closures. NEU members voted 98% against accepting the offer of a £1,000 one-time payment and a 4.3% pay increase for most teachers starting in September, triggering two more days […]
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