Tue 21 March 2023: Do you learn from mistakes? This is especially true when it comes to learning from other people’s mistakes. Your own, on the other hand, are often ignored. But why? You learn less from your own mistakes than from your own successes. Only when it comes to other people’s victories and defeats you do […]
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Tue 21 March 2023: Multiple Kalibr cruise missiles were reportedly destroyed in the explosion, according to a statement from the Ukrainian military posted on its website. The statement claimed that the attack serves to further “demilitarise Russia and prepare the Crimean peninsula for de-occupation,” though it did not specifically mention whether Ukraine was behind the […]
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Vigil for teacher Sabina Nessa, the primary school teacher who was found dead in a park close to her south London home. Tue 21 March 2023: Britain’s biggest police force is institutionally racist, misogynist and homophobic, according to an independent review commissioned after a young woman was raped and killed by a serving officer. The Metropolitan Police […]
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Aspergillus fumigatus growing on a petri dish. Photo: Jan-Peter Kasper, University of Jena. (FILE) Tue 21 March 2023: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which is monitoring the fungus, has warned that a mysterious and deadly infection known as Candida auris is rapidly spreading across the USA. The development comes on the […]
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Mon 20 March 2023: Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that cost of the damage caused by last month’s devastating earthquake has hit USD 104 billion. He spoke via a video link as donors at a conference in Brussels vowed funds to help Turkey and Syria. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen […]
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Mon 20 March 2023: Britain on Monday said far-right Danish politician Rasmus Paludan will be denied entry to the UK to carry out a provocative act of burning a copy of the Muslim holy book. Responding to a question by Wakefield Labour MP Simon Lightwood, Home Office Minister for Security Tom Tugendhat said Paludan had […]
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Mon 20 March 2023: Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin told Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu in a letter published on Monday that the Ukrainian army was planning an offensive aimed at cutting off his Wagner forces from the main body of Russian troops in eastern Ukraine. In the letter published by his press service, Prigozhin said the offensive was planned […]
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University of Helsinki is Finland‘s oldest university, founded in 1640. It is located in the heart of the capital, and with student housing all around the city. Mon 20 March 2023: Finland has been named the happiest country in the world in the annual World Happiness Report. This is the sixth consecutive year that they […]
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Mon 20 March 2023: The UK’s Ministry of Defence has apologised after asking Afghan asylum seekers in hiding to get their documents stamped by the Taliban, the very people they are trying to flee. Human rights groups have recorded how the Taliban have banned peaceful protests, executed alleged resistance fighters and suppressed women’s rights. Yet […]
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Mon 20 March 2023: The European Union today extended the mandate of its military mission (IRINI) meant to enforce the arms and oil embargo on Libya and fight human trafficking in the Mediterranean Sea. EU foreign affairs ministers agreed to extend the mandate of the EU’s military operation in the Mediterranean, officially called EUNAVFOR MED […]
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