Sat 12 February 2022: After the US warned that a Russian invasion of Ukraine may start in days, US President Joe Biden is scheduled to speak with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Saturday. Presidents Biden and Putin are set to hold talks on Saturday as Washington detailed increasingly vivid accounts of a possible attack […]
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Fri 11 February 2022: After receiving anonymous bomb threats, several public high schools in Washington were evacuated. No explosives, however, were discovered in any of the schools. Dunbar High School, Theodore Roosevelt High School, Ron Brown High School, KIPP DC College Preparatory, IDEA Public Charter School, Seed Public Charter School, and McKinley Tech High School […]
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Fri 11 February 2022: Turkey’s media and telecom regulator gave three international news agencies 72 hours to secure an operating licence on Wednesday. The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTUK) announced that German public broadcaster – Deutsche Welle, US broadcaster – Voice of America and France-based network – Euronews, would have their content blocked unless […]
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Fri 11 February 2022: Senators Ron Wyden and Martin Heinrich of the United States of America have claimed that the CIA is conducting a secret operation to collect bulk data on American individuals and have pushed the agency to reveal details about it. The letter was addressed to Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence, and […]
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Fri 11 February 2022: The French Health Ministry said on Friday that wearing masks indoors in venues that require a vaccine permit would be discontinued on February 28. Masks will still be required on public transportation and in places that do not require a vaccine pass. “Wearing a mask indoors will remain on transport and […]
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Fri 11 February 2022: Mount Etna, Europe’s largest and most active volcano, erupted for the first time this year overnight into Friday, sending ash and clouds into the sky in a gigantic column as high as five miles. Italy’s National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology has confirmed that an eruption took place on Thursday night. […]
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Fri 11 February 2022: In the United States, inflation has recently accelerated. It has now risen to its greatest level in 40 years. This outcome has given American consumers uneasy nights because it has wiped out pay raises and reinforced the Federal Reserve’s decisions to begin raising borrowing rates across the economy. According to the […]
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This handout image released by The European Southern Observatory (ESO) on February 10, 2022 shows an artist’s impression of Proxima d, a planet recently discovered orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fri 11 February 2022: Just four lightyears distant, there could be a new planet in […]
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Fri 11 February 2022: The World Health Organization’s chief scientist, Soumya Swaminathan, said on Friday that the world was not yet at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as there would be more coronavirus variants. “We have seen the virus evolve, mutate … so we know there will be more variants, more variants of concern, […]
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Fri 11 February 2022: Eric Zemmour, a French politician and presidential candidate, has made a fresh shocking statement about mosques and the call to prayer. According to TRT Haber, Zemmour is trying to gather supporters with his far-right rhetoric. He said that France should remain “the landscape of churches. “I reject huge mosques,” he added. Asked about […]
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