Thu 27 February 2025: As part of efforts to normalize relations between Washington and Moscow, a Russian delegation arrived at the US Consulate General residence in Istanbul for a meeting to discuss operation of their respective embassies. The Russian delegation reached the residence in Istanbul at 09.50 a.m. local time (0650 GMT). Russian Foreign Minister […]
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Thu 27 February 2025: US Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed that her office is set to release key documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, including flight logs and other critical records. “There are well over 200 victims—actually more than 250,” Bondi said Wednesday in an interview with Fox News, explaining the delay. […]
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Thu 27 February 2025: A wildfire in northeastern Japan led to the evacuation of thousands of alarmed residents, caused damage to structures, and triggered the deployment of military helicopters to combat the intense fire, local media reported on Thursday. Aerial footage from public broadcaster NHK showed a helicopter dumping water on one of multiple locations […]
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Thu 27 February 2025: Palestinians released from Israel’s Ofer Prison arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah early Thursday. An Anadolu correspondent said a bus carrying dozens of released Palestinian prisoners accompanied by teams from the International Red Cross arrived at the Cultural Palace, where their families were waiting. The correspondent added that the […]
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Wed 26 February 2025: US President Donald Trump accused media outlets on Wednesday of using “anonymous” or “off the record” sources to publish “made up” stories, and threatened to sue those responsible. Trump wrote on Truth Social that the stories are “defamatory fiction” and vowed to take legal action. “At some point, I am going […]
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Wed 26 February 2025: On Wednesday, China stated that Taiwan’s efforts to buy weapons from the United States “won’t protect Taiwan independence forces,” according to the state-operated Global Times. Zhu Fenglian, a representative from Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office, made these remarks in response to news that Taiwan’s governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is considering a […]
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Wed 26 February 2025: There’s been a global trend in the reduction of aid to Africa since 2018. Donors are shifting their funding priorities in response to domestic and international agendas. Germany, France and Norway, for instance, have all reduced their aid to Africa in the past five years. And, in 2020, the UK government reduced its Overseas Development Aid from […]
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Wed 26 February 2025: Chilean President Gabriel Boric declared a state of emergency on Tuesday after a massive blackout impacted 19 million people. In an address to the nation, Boric said the outage affected eight million homes and held private companies responsible for the disruption. “What happened today is outrageous because it’s not tolerable that […]
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Wed 26 February 2025: Social media giants Meta and X failed to take down far-right hate speech adverts on their platforms, in an apparent bid to influence election outcomes in Germany, an investigation has revealed. A report by corporate accountability group Ekō revealed that it submitted ten adverts to social media networks Meta and X this month, […]
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Wed 26 February 2025: Wars in Gaza, Ukraine and Myanmar among those spurring ‘digital violence’. Governments around the world oversaw a record-breaking year for internet shutdowns in 2024, a new report on “digital violence” suggests. There were 296 internet shutdowns documented across 54 countries last year, surpassing the 283 shutdowns in 39 countries in 2023, […]
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