Wed 16 February 2022: Blinken says Washington has not seen any evidence of a pullback of Russian troops from around Ukraine’s borders and that Moscow has, on the contrary, been moving critical units closer to the area. “There’s what Russia says and then there’s what Russia does. And we haven’t seen any pullback of its […]
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Wed 16 February 2022: On Tuesday, the Italian Constitutional Court denied a request for a vote on the right to die, despite the fact that the initiative’s supporters had gathered more than a million signatures. Right-to-die advocates in Italy have been attempting to force a vote on the controversial topic in the mostly Catholic country, […]
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Wed 16 February 2022: According to Ukrainian authorities, a cyberattack targeted the websites of Ukrainian government agencies and major banks on Tuesday. There was a “powerful DDOS attack on a number of information resources of Ukraine” starting from Tuesday afternoon, according to a statement by the State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection of […]
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Wed 16 February 2022: Six mummified children thought to have been sacrificed hundreds of years ago, apparently to accompany a dead nobleman to the afterlife, have been unearthed in a tomb near Lima, archaeologists reported. The tiny skeletons, wrapped tightly in cloth, were found on Sunday in the grave of an important man, possibly a […]
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Tue 15 February 2022: The UK’s unemployment rate remained steady at the end of last year despite the emergence of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, official data showed on Tuesday. The figure stood at 4.1 percent in the three-month period ending in December, the same as the previous quarter, according to the Office for […]
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Tue 15 February 2022: A new trial against jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny began on Tuesday inside the prison colony outside Moscow where he is held, in a case that could see his sentence extended by more than a decade. A video link showed Navalny in a prison uniform at the hearing, an AFP journalist […]
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Tue 15 February 2022: According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin believes that the talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday would be constructive and businesslike. “We hope that today’s talks will be as constructive, practical and useful as possible. And the talks are held so that the […]
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Tue 15 February 2022: From November 19 to November 29, last year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk gave a total of 5,044,000 shares in the world’s most valuable automaker to a charity, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Based on the closing prices of Tesla shares on the five days that […]
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Tue 15 February 2022: On Tuesday, the European Union’s data protection watchdog urged for the controversial spyware tool Pegasus, produced by the Israeli-based NSO Group, to be banned. The EDPS said use of Pegasus might lead to an “unprecedented level of intrusiveness, able to interfere with the most intimate aspects of our daily lives.” Israel […]
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Tue 15 February 2022: The state of Texas filed a lawsuit against Facebook’s parent corporation Meta on Monday, alleging that its facial recognition system collected people’ biometric data without their consent. According to Attorney General Ken Paxton, Facebook acquired biometric information from images and videos without the users’ knowledge, calling it an example of “big […]
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