Charlie Hebdo’s caricature [@Charlie_Hebdo_/Twitter] Tue 07 February 2023: French magazine, Charlie Hebdo, has sparked outrage with a new cartoon mocking Turkiye after the country was hit on Monday by two deadly earthquakes, Anadolu News Agency reports. The cartoon, posted on Twitter under the heading “cartoon of the day”, shows buildings near collapse and lying in rubble, a […]
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Tue 07 February 2023: In Geneva, Unicef spokesperson James Elder has told reporters: “The earthquakes … may have killed thousands of children.” While verified numbers were not yet available, Reuters reports he said “we know that scores of schools, hospitals and other medical and educational facilities have been damaged or destroyed by the quakes, vastly impacting children”. […]
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Tue 07 February 2023: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared seven days of national mourning, and Syria has appealed to the United Nations for help following devastating earthquakes that killed more than 5,000 people and toppled buildings across southeast Turkey and northern Syria. Authorities fear the death toll from Monday’s predawn magnitude 7.8 temblor, followed by […]
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Tue 07 February 2023: The number of people in Scotland who are classed as homeless has hit an all-time high, according to new figures released by the Scottish Government on Tuesday. In September 2022, there were 28,944 open homelessness cases recorded, the highest since records began in 2002 and an 11% rise on the previous […]
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Tue 07 February 2023: An 82-year-old woman was declared dead in a nursing facility in New York, but three hours later, she was discovered breathing at the funeral home where she had been taken, according to the authorities. At 11:15 on Saturday morning (February 4), the lady was declared dead at the Water’s Edge Rehab […]
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Tue 07 February 2023: Two years into his term as president, a majority of Americans believe that incumbent US President Joe Biden has not accomplished much since assuming office, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. Based on the survey, 62% of Americans believe the US president has accomplished “not very much” or “little or […]
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Tue 07 February 2023: The possibility of a further escalation in the Russia-Ukraine conflict has led UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to warn that a “wider war” may be on the horizon. In a speech to the 193-member UN General Assembly on Monday presenting his 2023 priorities, Guterres decried the Russian invasion of Ukraine, saying […]
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Mon 06 February 2023: In its most recent iOS update, Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp added the ability to create personalized avatars and use them as stickers and profile pictures. According to WABetaInfo, some users may have already been able to configure an avatar with the previous update, but it is now being rolled out to […]
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(Image for representation) Photograph:(Others) Mon 06 February 2023: Aliens may come invading the Earth or in peace, we never know. But the hint of potential danger has not stopped us from pointing our eyes and lenses at the vast expanse of space and wonder anyway. We scour the inky void for signs of life as […]
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Mon 06 February 2023: The Guardian reported that UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s trip to his constituency in North Yorkshire cost thousands of pounds, amid criticism over his use of taxpayer-funded private jets to travel around the country as the premier. Sunak, according to the newspaper, used private helicopters from London on dates in November […]
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