Thu 23 February 2023: Every professional aspires to achieve some degree of work-life balance, particularly in light of the detrimental effects of the mandatory work-from-home culture brought on by the pandemic on workers’ mental health. According to Autonomy, a British-based research group, employees at at least 61 British companies experimented with a four-day work week […]
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Wed 22 February 2023: A British-born woman who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Daesh today lost her latest appeal against the UK government’s decision to take away her citizenship, Reuters reports. Shamima Begum left London in 2015 aged 15 and travelled with two school friends to Syria, where she married a Daesh fighter and […]
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Wed 22 February 2023: At least 160 suspects were remanded in custody across Turkiye over the collapse of buildings following the 6 February deadly quakes, according to judicial sources on Wednesday, Anadolu News Agency reports. Turkish prosecutors charged 564 suspects as part of the investigation on collapsed buildings or flouting of construction codes, the sources said. At […]
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Wed 22 February 2023: According to Stoltenberg, “we have witnessed the Russian pattern of aggression over a long period of time, from Georgia in 2008 through Crimea and Donbass in 2014 to the full-fledged invasion of Ukraine last year. NATO cannot allow Russia to undermine European security after the end of the war in Ukraine, […]
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Wed 22 February 2023: YouTube, Google’s video-sharing platform, has quietly introduced a new “feature experiment” feature to its platform. The new tools will include nearly everything a creator would require to launch a podcast on the platform. It will assist creators in uploading by displaying analytical data to them. The new tools that YouTube is […]
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Wed 22 February 2023: US flyers were caught packing heat at record levels last year, the Transportation Security Administration said Monday. TSA agents seized 6,542 guns, almost all of which were loaded, at the nation’s airports in 2022, an average of 18 a day — the highest ever recorded, the agency said, New York Post […]
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Wed 22 February 2023: Pope Francis said on Wednesday that the war in Ukraine is “absurd and cruel” and called for ceasefire and negotiations, two days before the first anniversary of the Feb. 24 Russian invasion. During his General Audience in the Vatican on Ash Wednesday morning, the Pope said his thoughts go again go to the people of the […]
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Wed 22 February 2023: Malcolm X’s daughter has said she plans to sue a number of government agencies for allegedly covering up their involvement in his shooting death on February 21, 1965. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Ilyasah Shabazz, one of Malcolm X’s daughters, joined with civil rights attorney Ben Crump to announce […]
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Tue 21 February 2023: The war in Ukraine cost the global economy “well over $1.6 trillion” last year, according to a study released Tuesday by the German Institute of Economics. According to the study, global production losses could amount to another $1 trillion or so in 2023. The institute’s model calculation is based on the gross domestic […]
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Tue 21 February 2023: In the ongoing conflict between himself and certain Russian elites, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the wealthy founder of the Wagner mercenary group in Russia, has accused unspecified officials of denying his men of enough ammo. With his Wagner Group leading Russia’s months-long battle for the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk area, […]
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