Wed 01 March 2023: For security reasons, the European Parliament has decided to ban the Chinese short video-sharing app TikTok from staff phones, becoming the third EU institution to do so after the European Commission and the European Council. An EU official said on Tuesday that the planned ban will also apply to private devices […]
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Tue 28 February 2023: A devastating earthquake that struck Türkiye and Syria killed more than 50,000 people, in a toll revised by AFP that includes figures from both government and rebel-controlled parts of war-torn Syria. A total of 5,951 people were killed across Syria, while Türkiye recorded 44,374 deaths after the February 6 earthquake. The new tally brings to 50,325 the […]
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Tue 28 February 2023: Pope Francis said the world needs to have the courage to imagine an economy that isn’t “purely liberal” but is instead “at the service of society.” In an interview published on Tuesday by the Catholic Belgian weekly Tertio, together with the Belgian French publication Dimanche, Francis proposed an alternative model of the economy. “We need […]
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Tue 28 February 2023: A campaign group has argued that the United Kingdom should address how structural racism affected the death toll in all inquiries into how the government handled the pandemic. People of ethnic minority backgrounds died at a much higher rate than white Britons during the global health crisis. Racism. Civil rights groups […]
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The Ukrainian UJ22 drone that crashed near Moscow. Tue 28 February 2023: Following a wave of drone attacks that Moscow blamed on Kiev, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered officials to tighten border controls with Ukraine. This comes a year after Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor. Tuesday’s drone crash, which occurred just 100 […]
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Tue 28 February 2023: Canada banned TikTok from all government devices Monday for security reasons and it could be the start of a further crackdown, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. “This may be a first step, it may be the only step we need to take, but every step of the way we’re going to […]
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Tue 28 February 2023: International Relations and Cooperation Minister, Dr Naledi Pandor, has described the “prepper” warning issued by the US Embassy in South Africa to stock up on food and water as the country continues to rollout load shedding as “odd”. This comes after the US government warned its citizens in South Africa to […]
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Tue 28 February 2023: The migrant boat that sank off southern Italy on Sunday, might have led to the death of over a 100 migrants. The official death toll from the tragedy stands at 64, which includes 12 children, among whom was also a baby. The migrant boat broke apart just as it was trying […]
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Tue 28 February 2023: Bloomberg reported citing unnamed officials that Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is considering bringing back his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro and bringing him before the courts in the coming months to press charges against him on several counts, including inciting riots. However, the official, a high-ranking adviser to the leftist […]
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Tue 28 February 2023: A Pentagon advisory panel formed to help address a suicide crisis in the US military recommend imposing gun control measures on American service members to make it harder for them to kill themselves. Soldiers under age 25 would be banned from buying guns on US bases, while all others would face […]
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