TOP 5 MOST DOWNLOADED APPLICATIONS WORLDWIDE IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2022

Fri 19  August 2022: The top five applications downloaded globally in the first half of 2022 have been ranked by Apptopia, an application-focused platform. Here is the list, and it should come as no surprise that a Chinese company is at the top. 5- CAPCUT CapCut, a quite comprehensive, free tool for video editing, is […]

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NO AGREEMENT ON SERBIA-KOSOVO TENSIONS YET: EU’S BORRELL

Fri 19  August 2022: EU-mediated “crisis management” talks Thursday between Serbia and Kosovo failed to quell rising tensions, but further dialogue will be held “in the coming days,” the bloc’s diplomatic chief said. “Unhappily, we did not get to an agreement today… But it is not the end of the story,” EU High Representative Josep Borrell said in a brief […]

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ERDOĞAN SAYS WAR TO END AT NEGOTIATING TABLE EVENTUALLY, TÜRKIYE SUPPORTS UKRAINE’S SOVEREIGNTY

Thu 18 August 2022:  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said during his visit to Lviv that the war will eventually end at negotiating table. He added that the Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky and UN chief Antonio Guterres echo this view also. Speaking after the trilateral meeting with the Ukrainian leader and UN chief in Lviv, he said that the main topic was the Ukraine-Russia war during […]

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ESTONIA REPELLED THE ‘MOST EXTENSIVE’ CYBER ATTACK LINKED TO REMOVAL OF SOVIET MEMORIAL

Workers remove a Soviet T-34 tank installed as a monument in Narva, Estonia, on August 16. Thu 18 August 2022: Estonia claimed on Thursday that it had stopped “the most extensive cyber attack since 2007” shortly after demolishing Soviet monuments in a region with a sizable Russian ethnic population. More than 200 public and private […]

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NETFLIX’S AD-SUPPORTED PLAN MAY BLOCK DOWNLOADS FOR OFFLINE VIEWING

Thu 18 August 2022: The planned ad-supported tier of popular video streaming platform Netflix is unlikely to make the platform’s offline viewing function available to members on this low-end tier of the service. According to TechCrunch, this revelation was made after developer Steve Moser discovered code within the Netflix iPhone app indicating that the streaming […]

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IN A SEXUAL ASSAULT TRIAL, A RETIRED CANADIAN PRIEST PLEADS NOT GUILTY

Thu 18 August 2022: In a Canadian court on Wednesday, a retired priest pleaded not guilty to an alleged sexual assault that took place more than 50 years ago at an Indian Residential School, Anadolu Agency reported. Arthur Masse, 92, who was not in the courtroom, entered the plea through his lawyer, George Green. The […]

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RACIST DISCRIMINATION CASES IN GERMANY EXCEEDED 2,000 LAST YEAR

Thu 18 August 2022: The country’s anti-discrimination commissioner, Ferda Ataman, said the figures are alarming and called for stronger legal measures, Anadolu news agency reported. “People in Germany still experience discrimination every day, especially in the job market and in everyday business and when looking for accommodation, and sometimes by public authorities or on the […]

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CHINESE ACTIVITY AROUND TAIWAN TO BE COUNTERED BY US IN COMING WEEKS- STATE DEPT.

Thu 18 August 2022: The United States will take steps in the coming weeks and months to counter China’s military and economic activity around Taiwan, State Department spokesman Ned price said on Wednesday. “We will continue to take steps that are resolute but also calm to uphold peace and stability in the face of Beijing’s […]

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CHINESE ARMY WILL PARTICIPATE IN RUSSIAN DRILLS

Wed 17 August 2022: China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is going to be joining the drills in Russia in which India, Belarus, Tajikistan, and Mongolia are attending as well, Defence Minister announced on Wednesday. “As a part of the commitment and the annual collaboration of the Chinese and Russian armies, Chinese People’s Liberation Army will soon send soldiers to Russia […]

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TURKIYE HOLDS PANEL ON UN SECURITY COUNCIL REFORM IN PARIS

Wed 17 August 2022:  Turkiye’s Communications Directorate held a panel in Paris to emphasise the critical need for a UN Security Council reform, Anadolu News Agency reports. Many officials from Turkiye, including Deputy Director of Communications, Cagatay Ozdemir, attended the panel, along with diplomats from the Turkish Embassy in Paris. The panel was moderated by Washington Director […]

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