Wed 01 February 2023: Türkiye looks positively on Finland‘s application for NATO membership, but does not support Sweden’s bid, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Wednesday. “Sweden should not bother to try at this point. We will not say ‘yes’ to their NATO application as long as they allow burning of the Koran,” Erdoğan said in a speech to the AK Party deputies in parliament. […]
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Wed 01 February 2023: Infosys, an Indian IT firm, is in a dispute with the UK’s tax agency over a multimillion-pound corporation tax bill, The Guardian reported. The company that Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law NR Narayana Murthy founded is involved in a multimillion dollar legal battle with UK tax authorities. RISHI SUNAK, WIFE AKSHATA MURTY DEBUT […]
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Wed 01 February 2023: OPEC chief talks about output cuts, price volatility, and Russia’s war in Ukraine and its effect on oil prices. Ministers from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and allies, known as OPEC+, will meet virtually on February 1. The meeting comes as the price of oil has rallied towards […]
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(Image credit: NASA/MSFC/Aaron Kingery) Wed 01 February 2023: On Wednesday, a green-hued comet is expected to be the most visible to stargazers as it passes Earth and the sun for the first time in about 50,000 years. According to NASA, the dirty snowball was discovered less than a year ago and last passed close to […]
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Wed 01 February 2023: On February 24 of this year, the Russia-Ukraine war will have lasted a full year; nonetheless, there is no sign of a resolution, and many people are still unsure of what their futures contain. In the midst of the bombings and sanctions, a saga that has been ongoing since Russia invaded […]
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Tue 31 January 2023: Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and French President Emmanuel Macron’s approval ratings fell five points to 36% and 31%, respectively, over the past month and a half, according to a recent poll released on Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reported. According to the Odoxa Institute, 63% of French respondents think Macron is not a […]
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Tue 31 January 2023: In a four-day investigation across the state, the New South Wales (NSW) state police in Australia reported on Tuesday that they had detained over 600 perpetrators of domestic abuse, Anadolu Agency reported. Following a new high-impact operation targeting the state’s most dangerous domestic violence offenders, NSW police said in a statement […]
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Tue 31 January 2023: The government of Quebec province called Monday for the resignation of Canada’s newly-appointed representative to fight Islamophobia, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he supports Amira Elghawaby. Elghawaby, a human rights activist and the world’s first government-appointed official anti-Islamophobia agent, wrote a newspaper column in 2019 critical of the then-recent passing of Quebec’s secular law, Bill 21, which […]
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An exploded PFM-1S antipersonnel mine, also called a ‘butterfly’ or ‘petal’ mine, found by HRW in the Izyum area in September 2022 [Courtesy of Human Rights Watch] Tue 31 January 2023: Ukraine should investigate the “apparent use” of banned antipersonnel landmines by its troops in the northeastern area of Izyum when it was under Russian […]
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Mon 30 January 2023: The Russian embassy in London warned of an increase in European tensions after the chairman of the British defense select committee said the UK should “face Russia directly” over Ukraine. “This and similar remarks, including arguments that Tobias Ellwood, the head of the Commons’ defense committee, made today in favor of […]
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