Fri 10 February 2023: Almost 95% of families struggling to pay their energy bills will still be in fuel poverty in 2030, analysis showed. Ministers have been accused of “throwing in the towel” on tackling fuel poverty, The Daily Mirror reported. Research shows just 6% of fuel poor households will be out of that category […]
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Fri 10 February 2023: The authorities declared that new rules put into place in the city will soon make it unlawful to smoke marijuana on the streets of Amsterdam’s red light district. The regulations will go into effect in mid-May and may improve the quality of life for residents who have long complained about the […]
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Fri 10 February 2023: The death toll from the Turkey-Syria earthquakes, which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called “the disaster of the century”, has passed 21,500. At least 18,342 people have been killed in Turkey, according to Vice President Fuat Oktay, while at least 3,377 are known to have died in Syria. By comparison, […]
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Fri 10 February 2023: Washington, DC – The United States has released new details about the alleged Chinese “spy” balloon that flew over the country last week, saying the aircraft was “clearly” used to gather intelligence. The balloon, which was shot down by US forces over the Atlantic Ocean after traversing the continental US, was “capable of conducting signals intelligence […]
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Thu 09 February 2023: Too much misleading news on social media about the devastating earthquake in Turkiye and Syria in the early hours of Monday morning prompted the government in Ankara to disable Twitter before agreeing with the company to tackle fake news. The earthquake has killed at least 18,000 people and the death toll […]
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Thu 09 February 2023: Twitter announced on Thursday that Blue subscribers in the US can now write lengthy tweets on the microblogging network with up to 4,000 characters. “Starting today, if you’re subscribed to Twitter Blue in the US, you can create longer tweets,” the company wrote in a message on its @TwitterBlue account. we’re […]
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Thu 09 February 2023: China claimed on Thursday that American claims that a Chinese balloon that crashed was a part of a comprehensive surveillance program amounted to “information warfare against China.” The Pentagon stated on Wednesday that the balloon that was shot down off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday was a part of […]
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Thu 09 February 2023: The world “must know the truth” about who was behind explosions affecting Nord Stream gas pipelines, the Kremlin spokesman said on Thursday, after a U.S. investigative journalist alleged U.S. involvement in last September’s blasts. Speaking to reporters, Dmitry Peskov also said the blog post by journalist Seymour Hersh should prompt an international investigation into the incidents. […]
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Thu 09 February 2023: Temperatures in the quake-stricken Turkish city of Gaziantep plunged to minus five degrees Celsius (23 degrees Fahrenheit) early on Thursday but thousands of families spent the night in cars and makeshift tents, too afraid to return to their homes – or banned from doing so. Parents walked the streets of the […]
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Thu 09 February 2023: The question of whether animals can predict earthquakes has captivated people for centuries, with tales of strange behavior in creatures ranging from rats to birds, fueling the idea that they may have a sixth sense for seismic activity. There have been theories that claim abnormal animal behavior can usually mean there could be an impending earthquake […]
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