Tue 25 January 2022: Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister, is facing rising pressure after his office confirmed another Downing Street celebration, this time to celebrate his birthday in 2020. Johnson’s wife, who brought in a cake, organized the birthday celebration on the afternoon of June 19, according to ITV News. According to the broadcaster, […]
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Tue 25 January 2022: Texas and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against Alphabet Inc.’s Google on Monday, alleging that the company’s location tracking methods are deceptive and violate on users’ privacy in the United States. According to Washington, DC Attorney General Karl Racine’s office, two other state attorneys general plan to file cases […]
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Tue 25 January 2022: The volcanic eruption in Tonga, according to NASA, produced explosive forces equivalent to up to 30 million tonnes of TNT – hundreds of times more than the atomic bomb detonated on Hiroshima. On January 15, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai undersea volcano in the South Pacific erupted, sending debris as high as […]
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Tue 25 January 2022: Russia was planning a “lightning war that could take out Kyiv” while adding that it ” would be a disastrous step”. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said amid tensions at the border with Ukraine, As NATO opted to send more troops to eastern Europe, Western officials stated it was up to […]
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Tue 25 January 2022: Former Pope Benedict XVI admits to lying to a child sex abuse investigation when he said he incorrectly told German authorities he did not attend a meeting in 1980 while he was the archbishop of Munich. The confession came on Monday, after a report issued last week on abuse in the […]
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Mon 24 January 2022: The United Kingdom’s High Court has ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can pursue his legal fight against extradition to the United States to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. While Assange was granted permission to appeal by a London court, the case must first be accepted by the Supreme […]
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Mon 24 January 2022: The Dutch Agricultural Ministry announced on Sunday that over 200,000 chickens had been slaughtered due to bird flu. A total of 216,000 hens were culled on farms owned by the same firm in the northern town of Grootschermer and Willemstad city, according to a statement from the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, […]
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Mon 24 January 2022: On Monday, the European Commission proposed a €1.2 billion ($1.35 billion) aid package for Ukraine. “The (European) Commission proposes a new emergency macro-financial assistance package of €1.2 billion. This package will help Ukraine now to address its financing needs due to the conflict,” President of the European Commission Ursula von der […]
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Mon 24 January 2022: Local media in Japan claimed on Monday that the operator of the Chinese social media platform TikTok paid influencers to spread videos on Twitter without providing viewers with a notice. According to a report by Kyodo News, the Japan branch of TikTok’s parent firm, ByteDance Ltd., “is believed to have spread […]
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Mon 24 January 2022: A spill produced by freak waves from a volcano eruption in the south pacific prompted the Peruvian government to declare an environmental emergency on Saturday. Last Saturday, a massive undersea volcano in Tonga erupted, unleashing tsunami waves that reached as far as the United States. Beaches have been polluted, wildlife have […]
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