Sun 20 February 2022: Russia is planning the largest war since 1945, according to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. “The fact is that all the signs are that the plan has already in some senses begun,” he said in a BBC interview broadcast Sunday from the Munich Security Conference, after two Ukrainian soldiers were killed […]
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Sun 20 February 2022: According to the Paris prosecutor’s office, a French modeling agent who was close to disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead on Saturday in his prison cell in Paris, where he was being held in an investigation into the rape of minors and the trafficking of minors for sexual exploitation. […]
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Sun 20 February 2022: Researchers have found that false online claims are not eliminated simply by marking them as such, but that they should be accompanied by fact checks that provide additional information to counter them. Researchers have discovered that fact checks on dubious claims are a “more effective counter” to Covid-19 misinformation than simply […]
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Sun 20 February 2022: By amassing 1,304 pieces of Studio Ghibli memorabilia, a French fan of the anime films set a Guinness World Record. Guinness World Records said Eloise Von Velvet earned the record for largest collection of Studio Ghibli memorabilia when her collection was officially tallied. Toys, statues, music boxes, and other items created […]
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Sat 19 February 2022: A serial Guinness World Record breaker from Australia reclaimed his previous title by stacking six M&Ms vertically. Brendan Kelbie, 22, had previously stacked four M&M’s in 2020, tying the record set by Italian Silvio Sabba and putting him in a tie for first place. NEW RECORD: Tallest stack of M&M’s – […]
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Sat 19 February 2022: Ukraine is Europe’s “shield” against the Russian army and deserves stronger international support, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. “For eight years, Ukraine has been a shield,” he told a security conference in the German city of Munich on Saturday. His comments came as pro-Russia separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine ordered a full […]
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Sat 19 February 2022: A Russian court has sentenced in absentia the brother of imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny, Oleg, to one year in prison for violating the terms of a suspended sentence. A district court in Moscow “replaced Oleg Navalny’s suspended sentence … with jail time”, his lawyer Nikos Paraskevov wrote on Twitter on […]
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Sat 19 February 2022: Bella Hadid took to Instagram today to express her feelings about the hijab ban that has been implemented in countries such as India, Belgium, and France. The supermodel, 25, shared a series of posts to her Instagram on Thursday 17 February detailing some of the struggles affecting Muslim women across the […]
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Sat 19 February 2022: In an effort to keep women safe, the UK police are experimenting with new technology. They’re using SmartWater, a forensic liquid that only glows in the dark when exposed to ultraviolet light. According to a BBC report, this forensic liquid can stay on the skin for up to six weeks, allowing […]
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Sat 19 February 2022: According to a study released Friday by Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy, approximately 3.7 million more American children fell into poverty in January after the 2021 Child Tax Credit expired. Without the monthly payments, the child poverty rate increased from 12.1 percent in December 2021 to 17 percent […]
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