Fri 24 February 2023: Researchers from the Italian Institute of Astrophysics (Inas) have located new fragments of a meteorite that fell last week in the city of Matera (southern Italy) and that would be 45,000 million years old, as many as the solar system, according to the first results. of the investigations. The meteorite, which […]
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Fri 24 February 2023: India is the worst performer in 2023 among the top 10 countries of the world when it comes to market capitalisation, Business Standard has reported, noting that the dent in Adani Group stocks following the Hindenburg report triggered the fall. India has now slipped to seventh position. The United Kingdom is now on […]
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Fri 24 February 2023: Canada launched an investigation into social media giant TikTok on Thursday, amid concerns that its parent Chinese company may be collecting data on Canadians. The announcement follows the settlement of class action lawsuits in Canada and the United States. “The investigation was initiated in the wake of now settled class action […]
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Fri 24 February 2023: On Thursday, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) witnessed a historic vote in which nations denounced Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. Moscow was “overwhelmingly” asked to leave Kyiv by the countries, along with a request for a “just and lasting” peace. In the assembly, seven people voted against the motion, […]
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Fri 24 February 2023: US President Joe Biden announced that the US is nominating Ajay Banga, an India-American businessman who has served as the CEO of Mastercard, to be the president of the World Bank. The decision was described by Bloomberg as a “surprise pick”, as the World Bank said on Wednesday that it would “strongly encourage” women […]
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Thu 23 February 2023: The World Health Organization (WHO) says one woman dies every two minutes during pregnancy or childbirth, according to the latest data, with too few countries in the world managing to substantially reduce maternal death rates since 2016. The report, Trends in Maternal Mortality, showed that while there was significant progress in reducing […]
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Thu 23 February 2023: Every professional aspires to achieve some degree of work-life balance, particularly in light of the detrimental effects of the mandatory work-from-home culture brought on by the pandemic on workers’ mental health. According to Autonomy, a British-based research group, employees at at least 61 British companies experimented with a four-day work week […]
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Wed 22 February 2023: A British-born woman who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Daesh today lost her latest appeal against the UK government’s decision to take away her citizenship, Reuters reports. Shamima Begum left London in 2015 aged 15 and travelled with two school friends to Syria, where she married a Daesh fighter and […]
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Wed 22 February 2023: At least 160 suspects were remanded in custody across Turkiye over the collapse of buildings following the 6 February deadly quakes, according to judicial sources on Wednesday, Anadolu News Agency reports. Turkish prosecutors charged 564 suspects as part of the investigation on collapsed buildings or flouting of construction codes, the sources said. At […]
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Wed 22 February 2023: According to Stoltenberg, “we have witnessed the Russian pattern of aggression over a long period of time, from Georgia in 2008 through Crimea and Donbass in 2014 to the full-fledged invasion of Ukraine last year. NATO cannot allow Russia to undermine European security after the end of the war in Ukraine, […]
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