Mon 06 March 2023: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, a member of the opposition in Belarus, was given a 15-year prison sentence on Monday in abstentia, Anadolu Agency reported. According to the state news agency Belta, a court in the capital Minsk convicted Tsikhanouskaya and four other opposition figures of trying to seize state power in “an unconstitutional […]
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Mon 06 March 2023: Charities have criticised the government’s new plans to clamp down on refugees crossing the English Channel. The legislation will mean the home secretary will remove as soon as possible anyone arriving on a small boat and send them to Rwanda or another third country. This is despite the fact that in […]
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Mon 06 March 2023: Thousands of older people have died without getting the care they needed, a charity warned. Age UK said it was “deeply concerned” about the plight of elderly people whose needs are not being met and urged the chancellor to direct more resources towards social care, The Guardian reported. The charity cited […]
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Mon 06 March 2023: Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Monday said that the micro-blogging platform will “soon” extend “longform tweets” to 10,000 characters. When YouTuberA@ThePrimeagen, who posts videos related to coding, asked Musk, “the dev community and I were wondering if you could add code blocks to tweets?” Musk replied: “As an attachment? How many […]
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Mon 06 March 2023: Pope Francis expresses his sorrow for a recent migrant tragedy in the southern Italian town of Cutro, which killed at least 70 people, including 16 minors. “May human traffickers be stopped, and may they not continue to throw away the lives of so many innocent people!” Pope Francis made that heartfelt […]
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Mon 06 March 2023: The leader of Russia’s Wagner mercenary force warned that without ammunition, Russia’s position near the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut was in danger, the most recent indication of a rift between the Kremlin and the leader of the private militia. According to Ukrainian military officials and analysts, leaders of Russia’s 155th […]
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Sun 05 March 2023: During an interaction with the press in the UK, the Congress leader spoke on the Bharat Jodo Yatra, India’s foreign policy on China and Russia, crony capitalism, and the 2024 General Elections. “The Bharatiya Janata Party wants India to be silent,” argued Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during an interaction with the […]
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Sun 05 March 2023: Heart disease is often considered an old man’s disease, but a recent uptick in the number of young people dying of heart attacks has busted this myth. From a 22-year-old groom who died in the middle of his wedding ceremony to the 16-year-old who died while playing cricket, the headlines these […]
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Sun 05 March 2023: Former British Health Secretary Matt Hancock is continuing to face criticism because of the leak of WhatsApp messages sent between him and other ministers and officials at the height of the Covid pandemic. The messages, which were leaked by the Daily Telegraph, now show that Hancock wanted to announce a new virus variant […]
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Sun 05 March 2023: Bulgaria is destroying large quantities of expired Covid-19 vaccine doses and has no plans to replenish its stocks, the EU country’s health care chief said on Saturday. “At this point, there are no vaccinators at all,” caretaker Health Minister Assen Medzhdiev said in an interview on state television in Sofia. Having already destroyed “huge quantities” […]
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