FRENCH AIRPORTS TO CANCEL MORE FLIGHTS AS PROTESTS SPREAD – REPORTS

Fri 24 March 2023: The French Directorate General for Civil Aviation (DGAC) demanded that air carriers decrease the number of flights in some airports across the country on Sunday and Monday due to the strike of air traffic controllers against the pension reform, French media reported, citing a statement by DGAC. The department called on […]

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UK HOUSEHOLDS ‘SPENT 12% MORE ON ESSENTIALS IN FEBRUARY THAN YEAR EARLIER’

Fri 24 March 2023: Inflation and rising bills mean UK households are spending 12% more on essentials than they were a year ago, with almost four in 10 people having to use credit cards to cover these costs, new data showed. Two days after it emerged that the UK’s annual inflation rate unexpectedly jumped to 10.4% […]

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FIVE PLANETS WILL ALIGN ACROSS THE NIGHT SKY. HERE’S HOW YOU CAN SPOT THEM

Representational image. Fri 24 March 2023: As five planets get ready to align with one another, astronomers will be treated to yet another stunning sky display. Later this month, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Mars, and Uranus will form another magnificent planetary parade. On March 27, the planets will be in perfect alignment.You can see the moon […]

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US STATE OF UTAH TO REQUIRE PARENTAL CONSENT FOR SOCIAL MEDIA

Fri 24 March 2023: Utah became the first US state on Thursday to require social media companies to obtain parental approval for accounts held by minors, placing additional responsibility on services like Instagram and TikTok to confirm the age of their users. The law, which becomes operative in March 2024, was introduced in response to […]

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GROUP ADMINS WILL HAVE GREATER CONTROL OVER PARTICIPANTS IN WHATSAPP GROUPS

Fri 24 March 2023: Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, has announced two updates for WhatsApp “groups”: new admin controls and easily see groups in common. The new features, which will be available globally in the coming weeks, arrive just a few months after WhatsApp launched Communities, a feature that provides larger, more structured discussion groups. […]

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MORE THAN ONE MILLION PROTEST IN FRANCE AGAINST MACRON’S PENSION REFORM

Thu 23 March 2023: More than a million French people demonstrated on Thursday, against the pension reform announced by President Emmanuel Macron  Anadolu Agency reported. Private broadcaster RTL France reported that approximately 1.1 million people, including almost 120,000 in the nation’s capital Paris, took part in the protests, citing the Interior Ministry. The ministry also […]

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TIKTOK TO BE BANNED FROM BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY DEVICES OVER SECURITY CONCERNS

Thu 23 March 2023: The Chinese video-sharing app TikTok will be blocked from all parliamentary devices and internet servers, the British parliament declared on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reported. The action was taken a week after the UK banned the use of the app on all electronic devices used by the government. Oliver Dowden, minister for […]

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INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT CONCERNED BY RUSSIA’S ‘THREATS’ OVER PUTIN WARRANT

Thu 23 March 2023: Following the release of a war crimes arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has expressed concern over “threats” from Russia. After a threat by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to launch hypersonic missiles at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, the International Criminal Court (ICC) […]

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