Thu 16 March 2023: The United Kingdom banned the use of the Chinese video-sharing app TikTok on government electronic devices on Thursday. Cabinet Office Minister Oliver Dowden told MPs that TikTok would be banned on security grounds immediately, and that the ban would apply to all government corporate devices across all departments. “The security of […]
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Thu 16 March 2023: Hate crimes surged nearly 12 percent between 2020 and 2021, according to updated statistics released by the FBI on Monday, but the data is far from complete and the actual numbers are likely to be higher, experts tracking the rise in bias-fueled violence said. The new numbers painted a picture of […]
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Thu 16 March 2023: The largest mass graves of citizens killed during the full-scale war with Russia were discovered in Kharkiv region, namely in Izium, and in Kyiv region. “The largest mass burials were found in Izium in the Kharkiv region, where 941 people died, and in the Kyiv region, where the bodies of 1,374 […]
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Thu 16 March 2023: A Canadian minister on Wednesday urged the country to denounce Islamophobia, saying the government will continue to work to fight it. Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion Ahmed Hussen said in a statement that Islamophobia, discrimination and hate have no place in Canada. His comments came on International Day to […]
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Thu 16 March 2023: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres praised Islam’s peace message and Muslim compassion, especially regarding the asylum-seekers, in his speech. “We are just days away from the beginning of Ramadan. For well over a millennium, Islam’s message of peace, compassion and grace has inspired the people the world over,” he said. Speaking on the root of the word “Islam“, Guterres said […]
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Thu 16 March 2023: The European Command of the United States military on Thursday (March 16) released the footage of the critical encounter which happened between an American surveillance drone and Russian fighter jet over the Black Sea earlier this week. The US military said that a Russian Su-27 fighter jet downed an American MQ-9 Reaper […]
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Thu 16 March 2023: Gianni Infantino was re-elected unopposed as president of FIFA until 2027 at the 73rd congress of the world’s football governing body in Kigali, Rwanda on Thursday. Ahead of his re-election as FIFA president, Infantino told delegates in the Rwandan capital, after being confirmed by a standing ovation at the 73rd FIFA […]
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Thu 16 March 2023: The ‘Text detection’ feature on iOS, which enables users to extract text directly out of an image, is being rolled out by Meta-owned messaging service WhatsApp. According to WABetaInfo, the company is rolling out this feature to everyone who has installed the latest WhatsApp for iOS 23.5.77 update. When users open […]
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Thu 16 March 2023: Emails and messages, dated between 2020 and 2022, and seen by the Guardian, appear to show the “BBC coming under pressure from No 10 over the corporation’s political reporting.” The British newspaper reports that BBC editors had “asked their journalists to avoid using the word “lockdown” in reporting at the start of the pandemic […]
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Thu 16 March 2023: The Biden administration has reportedly demanded that the Chinese owners of TikTok sell their shares in the well-known video-sharing app or risk having it banned in the US, according to a local media outlet on Wednesday. The Wall Street Journal reported the demand was made by the US Treasury-led Committee on […]
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