Mon 13 February 2023: The United States has told its citizens on Sunday (12 February) to leave Russia immediately due to the war in Ukraine and the risk of arbitrary arrest or harassment by Russian law enforcement agencies. “Do not travel to Russia due to … the potential for harassment and the singling out of […]
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People mourn loved ones at a mass grave area following a major earthquake in Baris village near the Elbistan district of Kahramanmaras, southeastern Turkey, 10 February 2023. EPA / Sedat Suna Mon 13 February 2023: Antakya and Iskenderun, Turkey – After the earthquakes struck Turkey last week, Erdem Avsaroglu’s sister, her husband, and their two children […]
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Sun 12 February 2023: Pope Francis on Sunday again called for prayers and solidarity with the victims of this week’s earthquakes that shook southern Türkiye and affected Syria. “We continue to be close, with prayer and concrete support, to the earthquake victims in Syria and Turkey,” he said during his Angelus address, the Vatican News […]
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Sun 12 February 2023: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out a new feature which will allow users to share up to 100 media within the chats, on iOS beta. With the new feature, beta users can now select up to 100 media in the media picker within the application, which was earlier limited […]
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Westminster Abbey, London, England. File photo Sun 12 February 2023: The Church of England had announced its decision to bless same-sex couples few days ago but there are signs that the momentous move has divided the global Anglican church. Voices from the Anglican churches, prominently from developing countries, have expressed displeasure at the decision which […]
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Sun 12 February 2023: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday issued a decree sacking a senior security figure and said separately that his drive to clean up the government would continue. Authorities have dismissed dozens of officials in recent weeks and opened probes as part of a widespread drive against wrongdoing. The European Union says […]
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8-year-old Ahmet was rescued at the 152nd hour in Adıyaman. Sun 12 February 2023: Rescuers have pulled a seven-month-old baby and a teenage girl from the rubble in Hatay, Turkey, nearly a week after earthquakes devastated the country as well as neighbouring Syria and killed more than 29,000 people. The number of deaths in Turkey rose to […]
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Sat 11 February 2023: Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group, has said it could take two years for Russia to fully control the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine, two regions whose capture Moscow has stated as a key goal of the war. Prigozhin, who has emerged from the shadows to become a […]
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Sat 11 February 2023: Turkish footballer Merih Demiral announced on Friday that the shirt of Argentinian star Lionel Messi would be auctioned online to collect donations for victims of the devastating earthquake in Turkiye. Demiral, who plays for the Italian team Atalanta B.C., tweeted: “Messi’s shirt worn in one of the matches and was personally […]
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Sat 11 February 2023: Deforestation in Brazil’s section of the Amazon rainforest dropped by 61 percent in January, the first month in office for left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has promised to relaunch environmental protection efforts. Preliminary satellite data collected by the government’s space research agency Inpe and released on Friday showed 167sq km […]
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