Wed 01 March 2023: A far-right political party’s demand for a parliamentary discussion on enacting a headscarf ban in schools has been rejected by the Danish government, Anadolu Agency reported. The proposed ban, according to Tuesday’s written statement from Immigration Minister Kaare Dybvad Bek, would be against Danish law and the nation’s international commitments. “It […]
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Wed 01 March 2023: Russia’s Foreign Ministry said, on Wednesday, that Moscow would only agree to extend the Black Sea grain deal, which allows grain to be safely exported from Ukrainian ports, if the interests of its agricultural producers are taken into account, Reuters reports. “(The) Russian side stressed that continuing the package agreement on grain is […]
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Wed 01 March 2023: The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced Tuesday that the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic likely came from a laboratory in China. “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray in a statement posted on Twitter. […]
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Wed 01 March 2023: Following a head-on collision between two trains in central Greece that left dozens of people dead and scores more injured, rescue workers are desperately looking for survivors. The Greek Fire Service reported that at least 36 people were killed on Tuesday night, just before midnight, in Tempi, central Greece, close to […]
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Wed 01 March 2023: For security reasons, the European Parliament has decided to ban the Chinese short video-sharing app TikTok from staff phones, becoming the third EU institution to do so after the European Commission and the European Council. An EU official said on Tuesday that the planned ban will also apply to private devices […]
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Tue 28 February 2023: A devastating earthquake that struck Türkiye and Syria killed more than 50,000 people, in a toll revised by AFP that includes figures from both government and rebel-controlled parts of war-torn Syria. A total of 5,951 people were killed across Syria, while Türkiye recorded 44,374 deaths after the February 6 earthquake. The new tally brings to 50,325 the […]
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Tue 28 February 2023: Pope Francis said the world needs to have the courage to imagine an economy that isn’t “purely liberal” but is instead “at the service of society.” In an interview published on Tuesday by the Catholic Belgian weekly Tertio, together with the Belgian French publication Dimanche, Francis proposed an alternative model of the economy. “We need […]
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Tue 28 February 2023: A campaign group has argued that the United Kingdom should address how structural racism affected the death toll in all inquiries into how the government handled the pandemic. People of ethnic minority backgrounds died at a much higher rate than white Britons during the global health crisis. Racism. Civil rights groups […]
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The Ukrainian UJ22 drone that crashed near Moscow. Tue 28 February 2023: Following a wave of drone attacks that Moscow blamed on Kiev, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered officials to tighten border controls with Ukraine. This comes a year after Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor. Tuesday’s drone crash, which occurred just 100 […]
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Tue 28 February 2023: Canada banned TikTok from all government devices Monday for security reasons and it could be the start of a further crackdown, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. “This may be a first step, it may be the only step we need to take, but every step of the way we’re going to […]
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