Wed 19 Apr 2023: Approximately 159,000 federal government workers in Canada will go on strike Wednesday, the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) announced at a press conference late Tuesday. The strike could severely interrupt an array of government services. The union said the strike was called after an agreement was not reached by 9 […]
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Wed 19 Apr 2023: The United Nations has protested to the US about spying on Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and other officials, calling it “interference” by Washington, according to spokesperson Stephane Dujarric. “The UN officially expressed to the host country its concern regarding recent reports that the communications of the Secretary-General and other senior UN officials […]
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Wed 19 Apr 2023: Twitter has stated that it will put publicly visible labels to messages detected as potentially breaking its regulations, informing users that their visibility has been curtailed. Tweets that breach the company’s regulations are periodically restricted by making them harder to discover or visible to fewer people. The new labels will make […]
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Wed 19 Apr 2023: In the Archdiocese of Freiburg in the southwestern German state of Baden-Wurtemberg, more people have been affected by sexual violence by clergy than was previously officially known. It is now assumed that there are more than 540 victims, said the chairman of a reappraisal commission, Magnus Striet on Tuesday during a […]
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Wed 19 Apr 2023: Moscow has opened a new criminal case against Russia’s top opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who is already serving a nine-year prison sentence, his spokeswoman said on Tuesday. “A new criminal case was opened against Alexei Navalny while he’s in prison as a result of a ‘provocation’,” Kira Yarmysh said in English […]
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Tue 18 Apr 2023: Billionaire Elon Musk said he will launch an artificial intelligence, which he calls “TruthGPT,” in an apparent challenge to ChatGPT, the popular chatbot from OpenAI. “I’m going to start something which I call ‘TruthGPT,’ or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe,” Musk said in […]
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Tue 18 Apr 2023: The Spanish church has pleaded for forgiveness from victims of sexual assault, acknowledging its “great sin” that affects “one in every five children in Europe,” Anadolu Agency reported. The apology came during the Plenary Assembly of the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE), which is taking place this week in Madrid. Cited by […]
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Tue 18 Apr 2023: WhatsApp’s head, Will Cathcart, has penned an open letter against the controversial Online Safety Bill. In the letter, Mr Cathcart has addressed the risks that the Online Safety Bill poses to everyone’s privacy and safety. In the letter, he urged the government to protect privacy rights and it highlighted the importance of […]
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Tue 18 Apr 2023: Air pollution impacts every stage of human life from foetal development and the cognitive abilities of teenagers to adult mental health, according to a report that synthesises the findings of more than 35,000 studies from around the world. The Environmental Research Group at Imperial College London published the review on Monday of a […]
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Mon 17 Apr 2023: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC/Radio-Canada) is suspending its activities on Twitter following the social media platform’s decision to label them as a government-funded outlet, CBC said on Monday. “Our journalism is impartial and independent. To suggest otherwise is untrue. That is why we are pausing our activities on Twitter,” CBC said […]
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