Mon 23 January 2023: The Berlin International Film Festival will host the global premiere of Sean Penn’s documentary “Superpower,” which was filmed in Ukraine and features President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to festival officials on Monday. “More than a documentary, ‘Superpower’ is the chronicle of a film project that reality forced to change into something less […]
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Mon 23 January 2023: Hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in the US continue to plague communities across the country, prompting the Biden administration to take action. The latest high-profile hate crime took place in the state of Indiana on Jan. 11, when an 18-year-old Indiana University student of Asian descent was stabbed repeatedly in […]
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Mon 23 January 2023: The upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey will take place on May 14 as declared by the country’s president. The announcement was made by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who intends to run for re-election, on Saturday addressing a youth convention in the Bursa province of northwest Turkey. On Sunday, a […]
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Mon 23 January 2023: The government of Canada has announced that it will pay more than $2 billion to hundreds of Indigenous communities to resolve a lawsuit seeking damages for the loss of language and culture brought on by residential schools. A settlement of 2.8 billion Canadian dollars ($2.1 billion US) was reached in the […]
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Sun 22 January 2023: Massive layoffs have been announced by various media outlets in the United States, ranging from the Washington Post to CNN, amid growing fears of an economic downturn. Vox Media, the owner of websites such as The Verge and Vox, as well as the well-known New York Magazine and its online platform, […]
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On October 1, 1999, Putin ordered a ground offensive into Chechnya. These forces are pictured on October 2. Sun 22 January 2023: Moscow’s invasion has echoes of the tactics it employed in conflicts in the North Caucasus, experts and survivors say. Kyiv, Ukraine – As Maryam watched an online video recorded in Ukraine of a Russian […]
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Sun 22 January 2023: The French arm of the Russian state-owned RT television network said on Saturday it was shutting down after authorities used European Union sanctions to freeze its bank accounts. Late last February, shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, the European Union said it would ban Russia Today on the grounds it had been spreading disinformation about the war. RT (Russia […]
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April 15, 2022 FILE PHOTO Sat 21 January 2023: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said that he hoped Swedish authorities would not allow a protest that includes burning the Quran. “This permission is granted to this person, despite all our warnings. This vile act will take place at around 1600 Turkish time (1300 GMT), […]
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Sat 21 January 2023: A recent high-tech research has uncovered approximately 1,000 ancient Maya villages, including 417 that were previously unknown, concealed for centuries by the deep forests of northern Guatemala and southern Mexico. These settlements were connected by what may have been the world’s first highway network. According to a statement released on Monday […]
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Sat 21 January 2023: Authorities in Mexico have issued a warning on a trending TikTok challenge that has left schoolchildren drunk. A substance called clonazepam, which is used to treat seizures, panic attacks, and anxiety, is consumed during the challenge with the motto “The last one to fall asleep wins,” according to a report by […]
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