Tue 28 March 2023: After a fire broke out in an immigration detention facility in northern Mexico close to the US border, dozens of people were killed and injured. The fire started late on Monday at a building in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, which is close to El Paso, Texas. Images from the scene showed ambulances, […]
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Tue 28 March 2023: Black children in England and Wales are six times more likely to be strip-searched by police, according to a report that finds children were failed by those sworn to protect them. The report, released on Monday by Children’s Commissioner Rachel de Souza, found nearly 3,000 children were strip-searched from 2018 to […]
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Tue 28 March 2023: The moon was long thought to be dry, but over the last few decades, several missions have shown there is water both on the surface and trapped inside minerals. Scientists say they have discovered water trapped inside tiny beads of glass scattered across the moon, suggesting a potential reservoir of this […]
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Mon 27 March 2023: President of the United States Joe Biden has signed an executive order limiting the use of commercial spyware by the government, which has been used to target political dissent globally. The decision was made on Monday, more than a year after the Biden administration sanctioned the Israeli spyware company NSO Group, […]
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Mon 27 March 2023: Scotland’s governing party has elected Humza Yousaf as its new leader. The 37-year-old son of Asian immigrants is now set to become the first person of colour to serve as Scotland’s first minister, less than six months after Rishi Sunak became the first British prime minister of Indian heritage. Yousaf will lead the […]
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Mon 27 March 2023: Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new feature — “edit message” on iOS, which will be available in a future update of the app. According to WABetaInfo, with this feature, users will be able to quickly and easily edit their mistakes in a message without sending additional messages. In addition, […]
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Mon 27 March 2023: American rapper Kanye West, who goes by the name Ye, has returned to Instagram and claims that Jonah Hill’s performance in “21 Jump Street” was what finally caused him to change his views about anti-semitism. In a post, he shared a poster of the film and wrote, “Watching Jonah Hill in […]
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Mon 27 March 2023: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan kicked off his official election campaign on 10 March. The presidential and parliamentary elections have been brought forward to 14 May, having originally been scheduled for 18 June. Erdogan said that the change will boost voter turnout by avoiding any clash with university exams, school holidays […]
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The words “Muslim cowards” have been sprayed onto a wall at Thornaby Muslim Association in Stockton-on-Tees. FILE PHOTO Mon 27 March 2023: Under a government pledge to combat antisocial behavior, offenders convicted of crimes such as vandalism will be ordered to begin repairing the damage they caused within two days of receiving their punishment. Authorities […]
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Mon 27 March 2023: The Kremlin said on Monday that Russia would establish which state or states were behind blasts that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines and would do everything to stop what it called Western efforts to “cover-up” what happened. The pipelines, which connect Russia and Germany under the Baltic Sea, were hit by unexplained blasts last September in what Moscow called an […]
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