Tue 21 February 2023: Delegates from up to 193 UN member states will start talks in New York on Monday to try to wrap up negotiations on a long-awaited treaty to protect the world’s oceans from overfishing, pollution and other threats. The high seas – areas lying beyond countries’ exclusive economic zones – make up nearly two-thirds […]
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Tue 21 February 2023: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that perversion, up to pedophilia, was advertised as the norm in the West. “Look at what they do to their own people: the destruction of families, of cultural and national identities, and the perversion that is child abuse all the way up to paedophilia are advertised as the norm… and […]
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Mon 20 February 2023: After being devastated earlier this month by temblors that killed tens of thousands of people, a shallow magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck the Turkey-Syria border region. The depth of Monday’s aftershock in Turkey’s Hatay province was 2 kilometers (1.2 miles), according to the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre. The quake struck the town […]
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Mon 20 February 2023: New Zealand warned on Monday that the final cost of the devastating Cyclone Gabrielle could rise above $8 billion. Officials announced emergency funding to help in the recovery efforts. On February 12, a cyclone hit the North Island’s northernmost region, and it rapidly tracked down the east coast. The cyclone caused […]
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Mon 20 February 2023: More people are depending on food banks than ever before in Britain, new figures show, as “ever-increasing” numbers of households – including pensioners, NHS staff and teachers – seek help amid the cost of living crisis. New research by the Independent Food Aid Network (Ifan), shared with the Observer, found that almost […]
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Sun 19 February 2023: What does Prevent prevent? The UK government says the programme is key to counterterrorism and protecting vulnerable people. However, human rights organisations and Muslim groups say it is surveillance and counterproductive. The government has not released an independent review of Prevent – but during the review process, it was boycotted by […]
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Sun 19 February 2023: Gun crime across England and Wales almost doubled in the space of one year according to shocking new offence statistics which highlighted an astonishing 2533% increase in London alone. Analysis of Home Office open crime data from the first two quarters of 2021-2022 and 2022-23 show that there were 850 gun offences logged across […]
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Sun 19 February 2023: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out picture-in-picture mode for video calls, for all iOS users. With this feature in the new update, users can now multitask during a WhatsApp call without their video being paused, reports WABetaInfo. Other than the picture-in-picture mode, the new update also includes– the ability […]
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Sun 19 February 2023: A massive dinosaur footprint which is said to be made by a possibly squatting or resting dinosaur some 166 million years ago, was found off the coast of the United Kingdom’s Yorkshire. The discovery was made last year by local archaeologist Marie Woods as she stumbled upon the more than three […]
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Sun 19 February 2023: About two weeks after this month’s deadly earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Administration (AFAD) says that search and rescue activities have come to an end in the majority of regions. “The death toll due to the earthquakes rose to 40,642, and the work of searching […]
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