Fri 20 January 2023: Yakutsk, the coldest city in the world, in Russia, experienced a temperature drop of minus 62.7 degrees Celsius (80.9 degrees Fahrenheit). According to a CNN report Thursday (January 19), citing meteorologists said this is the coldest Yakutsk has been in more than 20 years. Temperatures in the city dropped to minus […]
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Fri 20 January 2023: Former United States National Security Adviser John Bolton faced harsh criticism on Thursday after calling for NATO to expel Türkiye and extend support to opposition parties in the upcoming elections. “Bolton, who previously admitted that he supported coups, called on NATO to intervene in the elections in Türkiye. It is a futile […]
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Fri 20 January 2023: Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov criticised a ban on Russian soldiers wearing beards, noting his forces fighting in Ukraine are Muslims and having facial hair is a religious duty. Kadyrov’s comments are the latest outburst against the Russian military leadership as he joined Wagner Group mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in venting public criticism. In […]
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Fri 20 January 2023: Russia has warned of a “extremely dangerous” escalation if NATO sends heavy weapons to Ukraine, such as battle tanks and long-range missile systems. The Kremlin issued the warning ahead of a key donor meeting on Thursday, as Western countries consider sending more powerful military equipment to Ukraine, where Russian forces are […]
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Fri 20 January 2023: ‘Toadzilla’ weighed in at 2.7kg (almost 6lbs) and could have set a new world record for size, Queensland ranger said. A “monster cane toad” equal in weight to some newborn human babies has been discovered by Australian rangers in North Queensland. The gigantic cane toad, which was named “Toadzilla”, was found by […]
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Fri 20 January 2023: It will likely survive, but only after more firms and currencies crash and burn. Here’s why. As the Los Angeles Rams beat the Cincinnati Bengals in the championship game of the National Football League last February, an unlikely set of players made a splash off the field, in living rooms across […]
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Fri 20 January 2023: More than a million people have joined a day of protests and strikes, according to France’s interior ministry, against plans to push back the age of retirement, from sixty two to sixty four. Some eighty thousand protesters took to the streets of Paris, with demonstrations in two hundred more French cities. […]
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Thu 19 January 2023: The president of Serbia expressed his pessimistic about his country’s and its neighbors’ chances of joining the European Union on Thursday, Anandolu Agency reportd. “I am pessimistic about the possibility of entering the European Union in a relatively soon period of time. I am pessimistic for all of us, including Montenegro, […]
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Thu 19 January 2023: Failure to act on the climate emergency means ‘parts of our planet will be uninhabitable and for many it will be a death sentence’, Antonio Guterres warns. Some big oil companies ignored their own science on the dangers of climate change and “peddled the big lie” for decades about the […]
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Thu 19 January 2023: Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand, has announced that she will step down in a month and not run in the general elections this year. Ardern, fighting back tears, told reporters in Napier on Thursday that February 7 will be her last day in office. “I am not leaving […]
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