Sat 22 January 2022: Two Lyon residents have been charged with selling over 1,000 bogus COVID-19 health passes. The duo is suspected of forging certificates by hacking into a French nurse’s account in Gironde last summer. According to the Bordeaux public prosecutor’s office, they were arrested on Tuesday following “several months” of investigation. A private […]
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Sat 22 January 2022: Donald Trump allegedly wrote an executive order authorizing the US’ top military leader to grab voting equipment after his defeat in the 2020 elections, according to a report. The shocking memo, obtained by Politico and released by the National Archives, reveals the extremes to which Trump was willing to go to […]
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Sat 22 January 2022: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday that a Russian invasion of Ukraine would be against international law and said he was confident that it would not happen. “There should not be any military intervention. In this context, I think that diplomacy is the way to solve problems,” Guterres told reporters. “I’m […]
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Sat 22 January 2022: The mother of an 11-year-old girl who committed suicide last year has filed a lawsuit against Facebook parent company Meta and social media company Snap, alleging that they are to blame for her daughter’s death. Tammy Rodriguez accuses the two companies, Meta-owned Instagram and Snap-owned messaging app Snapchat, of making her […]
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Sat 22 January 2022: The World Tourism Organization said Tuesday that tourism arrivals are unlikely to return to pre-pandemic levels until 2024 at the earliest. According to the Madrid-based UN agency’s World Tourism Barometer, the highly contagious Omicron variant will “disrupt the recovery” in early 2022 after last year’s four percent growth over 2020. Tourism […]
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Fri 21 January 2022: Is there a certain age at which you can achieve great things in life? No. The best example of this is a Belgian-British teenager who has an inspirational story to tell. Zara Rutherford, 19, has become the world’s youngest woman to fly solo around the globe. The 19-year-old touched down at […]
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Fri 21 January 2022: In a review of its 2021 enforcement actions, Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta said on Thursday that it deactivated more than 130 accounts from the two platforms during the months of December for suspected coordinated inauthentic behavior. We removed eight Facebook accounts and 126 Instagram accounts from Iran that primarily […]
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Fri 21 January 2022: London tourism may not recover to pre-coronavirus levels until the mid-2020s, according to London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who urged the government to put together a package of support measures for the impacted firms. “It is estimated that it could take until at least 2025 for domestic and international overnight visitor numbers […]
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Fri 21 January 2022: If Russia invades Ukraine, it risks being dragged into a “terrible quagmire,” British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss warned on Friday, raising the prospect of a long, bloody, and resource-draining conflict for Moscow. Mean while the United Kingdom has sent a group of around 30 elite troops to Ukraine to train the […]
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Fri 21 January 2022: The French government announced on Thursday that it will cull over one million birds in the coming weeks to combat an avian flu outbreak on poultry farms. In the southwestern French departments of Landes, Gers, and Pyrenees Atlantiques, all ducks, chickens, and turkeys must be culled, totaling up to 1.3 million […]
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