Fri 31 March 2023: Türkiye‘s parliament voted Thursday to approve Finland‘s bid to join NATO. The Nordic country received Ankara’s official blessing for its request to join the military alliance, with 276 votes in favor. Thursday’s vote means that all 30 current member states of NATO have now ratified Finland’s accession, a requirement for it to join […]
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Fri 31 March 2023: A New York grand jury indicted former US President Donald Trump for the hush money payments he made to an adult star during his 2016 campaign. Trump was the first former US President to be charged with a crime. What’s Next For Donald Trump: Donald Trump’s lawyer had previously said that […]
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Fri 31 March 2023: A British man renovating his kitchen discovered a 400-year-old wall paintings of “national significance” in his flat in northern England. According to the BBC, Luke Budworth, who is a medical researcher at Leeds University, uncovered the friezes, dating back to about 1660, on a wall at his home in Micklegate in York […]
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Fri 31 March 2023: The US government has renewed its call for American citizens to leave Russia immediately following the detention of a US journalist, which took Washington by surprise. The presence of US citizens in Russia is deeply worrying, said John Kirby, the communications coordinator for the US National Security Council, on Thursday. Russia announced it […]
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Fri 31 March 2023: Former US President Donald Trump is facing charges in connection with a New York investigation into an alleged hush money payment made to a porn star ahead of the 2016 presidential election, according to The New York Times. According to the newspaper, a New York grand jury voted on Thursday to […]
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Thu 30 March 2023: Russia’s cyberwar on Ukraine has largely failed and Moscow is increasingly targeting Kyiv’s European allies, according to US and French analysts. French defence firm Thales said in a report on Wednesday that Russia was hitting Poland and Nordic and Baltic countries with an arsenal of cyberweapons aiming to sow divisions and promote anti-war […]
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Thu 30 March 2023: Researchers are growing more concerned about the technology’s ostensibly inevitable role in disinformation and propaganda campaigns as sophisticated artificial intelligence systems improve their capacity to produce images, video, and text. Our information environment could be drastically changed by developments in generative AI, to the point where humans and even machines might […]
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Thu 30 March 2023: Nearly half of British workers are at risk of burnout as the cost-of-living crisis adds to anxiety, with work-related stress costing the British economy £28 billion ($34 billion) last year, a study said Wednesday. The report, published by French insurer AXA and UK think tank CEBR, found that Britons took a […]
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Thu 30 March 2023: After being admitted to the hospital the previous day, Pope Francis had a peaceful night and the medical staff is optimistic about his recovery, according to a report by the Italian news agency ANSA on Thursday. According to the Vatican, the 86-year-old pontiff was taken to Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Wednesday […]
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Thu 30 March 2023: This week marked a new era, with Pakistani-origin Humza Yousaf in charge at Holyrood as Rishi Sunak, whose ancestors hail from India, leads at Westminster. When Humza Yousaf became Scotland’s new leader this week, the world of British politics entered a new era of diversity. With Pakistani-origin Yousaf in charge at […]
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