Fri 18 February 2022: According to a court filing on Thursday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has accused the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of “harassment” and depriving him of his right to free speech as the SEC continues to monitor his interactions with shareholders following the 2018 settlement he reached over a company miscommunication. […]
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Thu 17 February 2022: Individuals from the United States and around the world are fueling rallies against COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Ottawa and across Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday. “These illegal blockades are being heavily supported by individuals in the United States and from elsewhere around the world,” Trudeau said in the […]
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Thu 17 February 2022: According to outage tracking website Downdetector.com, Twitter’s website and app were offline for some users on Thursday. Downdetector, which tracks outages by compiling status updates from a variety of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform, received over 4,500 outage complaints within minutes of problems occurring. Users reported being unable to […]
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Thu 17 February 2022: Boris Johnson has claimed the attack on a nursery in eastern Ukraine was a “false flag operation designed to discredit the Ukrainians”. He added: “We fear very much that that is a thing we will see more of over the next few days”. Speaking on a visit to RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire on […]
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Thu 17 February 2022: The Ukrainian military on Thursday accused Russian separatists of shelling the southeastern Donbas region on Thursday, hitting a kindergarten. “Despite the fact that our positions were fired on with prohibited weapons, including 122 mm artillery, Ukrainian troops did not open fire in response,” a press officer of the Ukrainian Joint Forces […]
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Thu 17 February 2022: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday called on member states to better handle migration and protect migrants. In a briefing to the General Assembly on his report on the Global Compact for Migration, Guterres highlighted four priorities. The first priority is to promote inclusive societies and include migrants in COVID-19 response […]
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Thu 17 February 2022: A senior Biden administration official on Wednesday told reporters that the United States believes Russia’s claim it was withdrawing troops from the border with Ukraine is “false.” “So yesterday, the Russian government said it was withdrawing troops from the border with Ukraine. They received a lot of attention for that claim, […]
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Thu 17 February 2022: Germany will relax COVID-19 regulations now that a wave of infections caused by the Omicron coronavirus strain appears to have passed, according to Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Scholz said Germany was ready to look forward to COVID-19 with more confidence after a meeting with the chiefs of the federal states earlier on […]
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Wed 16 February 2022: A coalition of civilian society, human rights and religious organisation in the UK have stepped up the coordination of opposition activities against a controversial law which is currently being debated in parliament. The Nationality and Borders Bill which has already passed its third and final reading in the House of commons will give […]
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Wed 16 February 2022: According to a court filing, Prince Andrew of Britain and his accuser Virginia Giuffre have resolved a lawsuit alleging that he sexually assaulted her as a teenager when she was being sexually trafficked by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. On behalf of both parties, Giuffre’s lawyers urged a US federal court […]
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