Sat 19 March 2022: Telegram, a popular messaging service in Brazil, was ordered to be shut down nationally by a Supreme Court ruling on Friday, citing the company’s refusal to cooperate with authorities. President Jair Bolsonaro, who has over 1 million followers on the platform and defends it as a major instrument for his reelection […]
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Sat 19 March 2022: Russia has renewed accusations of a US-backed biological weapons programme in Ukraine, allegations that were dismissed as “disinformation” by most members of the UN Security Council. Representatives of the United States and the United Kingdom – amongst others – rebuked Russia for requesting a Security Council meeting on Friday for the purpose […]
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Fri 18 March 2022: The United States has denounced “dangerous” comments by Russia’s ambassador to Bosnia, who issued a tacit threat to the Balkan country over its proposed bid to join NATO. Bosnia has been divided along ethnic lines since a war in the 1990s that killed some 100,000 people. The country is ruled by […]
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Fri 18 March 2022: The UN migration agency estimates that nearly 6.5 million people have now been displaced inside Ukraine, on top of the 3.2 million refugees who have already fled the country. The estimates from the International Organisation for Migration suggests Ukraine is fast on a course in just three weeks toward the levels […]
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Fri 18 March 2022: The Kremlin has blamed a technical issue for the interruption of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech to a packed Moscow stadium commemorating Crimea’s annexation on the eighth anniversary of its annexation. During Putin’s speech on Friday, Russian state media abruptly switched away from Putin’s praise of Russia’s “special operation” in Ukraine […]
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Fri 18 March 2022: The US Commerce Department will move to effectively ground 100 airplanes that have recently flown to Russia and are believed to violate US export controls, including a plane used by Russian businessman Roman Abramovich, officials have told Reuters. The list, seen by Reuters, includes 99 Boeing airplanes operated by Russian passenger […]
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Fri 18 March 2022: Russian officials accused Google and its video subsidiary YouTube of “terrorist” activities on Friday, marking the first step toward a future access ban. Other global tech companies, including as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, as well as some independent media outlets, have already been blocked by Russia. According to Roskomnadzor, Russian media […]
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Fri 18 March 2022: Germany reported nearly 300,000 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, its highest-ever daily rise since the pandemic started. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the country’s disease control agency, confirmed 297,845 new COVID-19 cases and 226 related fatalities in the past 24 hours. The relaxation of anti-coronavirus measures last month and the spread […]
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Fri 18 March 2022: All remaining Covid-19 pandemic related international travel restrictions, including filling in Passenger Locator Forms before arrival and compulsory pre-departure tests for unvaccinated travellers, have been scrapped from Friday, the UK government has announced. The change, which had been announced by the Department for Transport (DfT) earlier, came into effect at 4 […]
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Strollers in the centre of Lviv to show the number of children killed in Russia’s war against Ukraine. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fri 18 March 2022: At least 109 children have been killed in Ukraine due to Russian attacks, Ukrainian media reported on Friday. Another 130 children have been wounded, Ukraine’s state news agency Ukrinform reported citing the Prosecutor General’s Office. More than […]
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