Mon 13 February 2023: Hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets of the Spanish capital on Sunday to protest what they say is the crumbling public healthcare system in the region of Madrid. Government figures estimate that around 250,000 participated in the protest, while organizers claimed up to a million people took part to […]
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Mon 13 February 2023: Microsoft’s AI chatbot ChatGPT can score at or around the approximately 60 per cent passing threshold for the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE), with responses that make coherent, internal sense and contain frequent insights, according to a study. ChatGPT is designed to generate human-like writing by predicting upcoming word sequences. […]
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Mon 13 February 2023: Life expectancy for older people has fallen by two years in just a decade, said experts. A toxic combination of an increasingly stressed NHS, fallout from the pandemic and unhealthy lifestyles is to blame, they believe, The Daily Mail reported. The fall bucks a long-term trend in which life expectancy had risen […]
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Mon 13 February 2023: The United States has told its citizens on Sunday (12 February) to leave Russia immediately due to the war in Ukraine and the risk of arbitrary arrest or harassment by Russian law enforcement agencies. “Do not travel to Russia due to … the potential for harassment and the singling out of […]
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People mourn loved ones at a mass grave area following a major earthquake in Baris village near the Elbistan district of Kahramanmaras, southeastern Turkey, 10 February 2023. EPA / Sedat Suna Mon 13 February 2023: Antakya and Iskenderun, Turkey – After the earthquakes struck Turkey last week, Erdem Avsaroglu’s sister, her husband, and their two children […]
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Sun 12 February 2023: Pope Francis on Sunday again called for prayers and solidarity with the victims of this week’s earthquakes that shook southern Türkiye and affected Syria. “We continue to be close, with prayer and concrete support, to the earthquake victims in Syria and Turkey,” he said during his Angelus address, the Vatican News […]
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Sun 12 February 2023: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out a new feature which will allow users to share up to 100 media within the chats, on iOS beta. With the new feature, beta users can now select up to 100 media in the media picker within the application, which was earlier limited […]
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Westminster Abbey, London, England. File photo Sun 12 February 2023: The Church of England had announced its decision to bless same-sex couples few days ago but there are signs that the momentous move has divided the global Anglican church. Voices from the Anglican churches, prominently from developing countries, have expressed displeasure at the decision which […]
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Sun 12 February 2023: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday issued a decree sacking a senior security figure and said separately that his drive to clean up the government would continue. Authorities have dismissed dozens of officials in recent weeks and opened probes as part of a widespread drive against wrongdoing. The European Union says […]
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8-year-old Ahmet was rescued at the 152nd hour in Adıyaman. Sun 12 February 2023: Rescuers have pulled a seven-month-old baby and a teenage girl from the rubble in Hatay, Turkey, nearly a week after earthquakes devastated the country as well as neighbouring Syria and killed more than 29,000 people. The number of deaths in Turkey rose to […]
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