Fri 24 March 2023: US attorney Nadia Kahf has been appointed to the New Jersey Superior Court, becoming the first hijab-wearing judge on the bench, local media reported. Kahf, who is of Syrian origin, is a law and immigration attorney from the township of Wayne. She took the oath of office yesterday with her hand […]
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Representational image. Fri 24 March 2023: As five planets get ready to align with one another, astronomers will be treated to yet another stunning sky display. Later this month, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Mars, and Uranus will form another magnificent planetary parade. On March 27, the planets will be in perfect alignment.You can see the moon […]
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Fri 24 March 2023: Utah became the first US state on Thursday to require social media companies to obtain parental approval for accounts held by minors, placing additional responsibility on services like Instagram and TikTok to confirm the age of their users. The law, which becomes operative in March 2024, was introduced in response to […]
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Fri 24 March 2023: Around 1,500 people are still unable to go home as a wildfire rages in a mountainous area of eastern Spain on Friday. The first significant wildfire of the year tore through the area’s dry forest on Thursday, forcing residents of eight Valencian towns and two Aragonese towns to leave their homes. […]
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Fri 24 March 2023: Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, has announced two updates for WhatsApp “groups”: new admin controls and easily see groups in common. The new features, which will be available globally in the coming weeks, arrive just a few months after WhatsApp launched Communities, a feature that provides larger, more structured discussion groups. […]
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Thu 23 March 2023: More than a million French people demonstrated on Thursday, against the pension reform announced by President Emmanuel Macron Anadolu Agency reported. Private broadcaster RTL France reported that approximately 1.1 million people, including almost 120,000 in the nation’s capital Paris, took part in the protests, citing the Interior Ministry. The ministry also […]
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Thu 23 March 2023: The Chinese video-sharing app TikTok will be blocked from all parliamentary devices and internet servers, the British parliament declared on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reported. The action was taken a week after the UK banned the use of the app on all electronic devices used by the government. Oliver Dowden, minister for […]
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Thu 23 March 2023: Following the release of a war crimes arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has expressed concern over “threats” from Russia. After a threat by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to launch hypersonic missiles at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, the International Criminal Court (ICC) […]
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Thu 23 March 2023: UN Secretary General António Guterres said humanity is in peril due to a worldwide shortage of clean water that is only threatening to worsen in the coming years. “We’ve broken the water cycle, destroyed ecosystems and contaminated groundwater,” Guterres said at the start of a three-day conference in New York to […]
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Thu 23 March 2023: Instagram, which is owned by Meta, has announced it will include advertisements in the platform’s search results to reach users who are actively looking for companies, goods, and content. Advertisements will show up in the feed that people can scroll when they tap into a post from search results. “We plan […]
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