Thu 16 March 2023: Emails and messages, dated between 2020 and 2022, and seen by the Guardian, appear to show the “BBC coming under pressure from No 10 over the corporation’s political reporting.” The British newspaper reports that BBC editors had “asked their journalists to avoid using the word “lockdown” in reporting at the start of the pandemic […]
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Thu 16 March 2023: The Biden administration has reportedly demanded that the Chinese owners of TikTok sell their shares in the well-known video-sharing app or risk having it banned in the US, according to a local media outlet on Wednesday. The Wall Street Journal reported the demand was made by the US Treasury-led Committee on […]
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Thu 16 March 2023: Future US astronauts who walk on the moon will do so in sleeker, more flexible spacesuits thanks to NASA’s decision to do away with the bulky white suits Neil Armstrong and his fellow Apollo astronauts wore 50 years ago. The first prototype of a brand-new next-generation spacesuit, custom-fitted and equipped for […]
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Wed 15 March 2023: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, speaking to reporters after the AK Party Group Meeting, said that “We will keep our promise on Friday,” regarding Finland’s NATO membership. Erdoğan pledged to do his part and fulfill his promise after the upcoming talks with his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto on Friday. “Whatever the process is, […]
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Wed 15 March 2023: Shumirun Nessa, a British Muslim woman with more than seven million followers on TikTok, says she has been targeted after posting about Jeffrey Marsh, an American non-binary activist. Social media platforms are often awash with controversy, but the latest row appears to have spilled over the boundaries of the virtual world […]
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Wed 15 March 2023: South Africa’s Parliamentary delegation to the Inter Parliamentary Union’s 146th Assembly in Bahrain has called for the appointment of the first-ever female Secretary General of the United Nations. If a female is elected, it would be the first time in the international body’s 75-year history. The recommendation by the South African […]
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Wed 15 March 2023: As sanitation workers strike for the ninth day on Tuesday, Paris, the city of romance, is turning into a garbage dump, with tonnes of stinking garbage piling up on the city’s sidewalks. The growing amount of garbage is a clear indication of workers’ outrage over a bill that would raise the […]
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Wed 15 March 2023: A Czech man claimed a remarkable feat of human endurance after diving without a wetsuit beneath Switzerland’s Lake Sils and emerging from its 50-meter icy depth. David Vencl, 40, jumped 52.1 meters in a single breath. The achievement follows David’s entry into the Guiness World Records in 2021, when he swam […]
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Wed 15 March 2023: The United Nations is observing March 15 as the International Day to Combat Islamophobia with the goal of taking “concrete action in the face of rising hatred, discrimination, and violence against Muslims”. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres affirmed that the move is “a call for action to stamp out anti-Muslim hatred”. “Discrimination […]
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Wed 15 March 2023: The Royal Air Force (RAF) of the United Kingdom and the Luftwaffe of Germany conducted their first joint NATO air policing scramble, intercepting a Russian aircraft flying close to Estonian airspace. On Tuesday, two British and German Typhoon planes responded after a Russian air-to-air refueling plane lost contact with Estonian air […]
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