Wed 29 March 2023: Asylum seekers will be housed in disused military bases, ferries and barges under Government plans to reduce the spending on hotels. Immigration minister Robert Jenrick will announce the use of two RAF sites on Wednesday as he tries to reduce the £6.8 million a day the Government says it spends on […]
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Wed 29 March 2023: Ukrainian forces are apparently pushing back Russian forces from an important supply route in Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, British defence experts said on Wednesday. “One of the key achievements of recent Ukrainian operations has likely been to push Russian Wagner Group fighters back from the 0506 route,” the British Ministry of Defence said in its daily assessment. The road has […]
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Wed 29 March 2023: The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that additional COVID-19 vaccine booster doses are no longer recommended for regular, medium-risk adults because the benefit is marginal. There is no risk in having additional jabs for people who have had their primary vaccination course and one booster dose, according to the WHO’s […]
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Wed 29 March 2023: Lawmakers’ push to ban the app comes as they mull extending powers that force tech firms to facilitate mass snooping for the United States. Taipei, Taiwan – During a five-hour grilling of the chief executive of TikTok last week, United States lawmakers railed against the possibility of China using the wildly popular, […]
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Tue 28 March 2023: A dramatic body camera video showed how Nashville police officers responded after six people were killed, including three children, in yet another brutal shooting incident in the United States on Monday. The incident occurred at a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee. The video began with a police officer entering the […]
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Tue 28 March 2023: Olympic chiefs recommend returning Russian and Belarusian athletes to competition as individuals under a neutral flag with no links to the military. International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach said the IOC had recommended to international federations and event organisers that “athletes with a Russian or a Belarusian passport must compete […]
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Tue 28 March 2023: After a fire broke out in an immigration detention facility in northern Mexico close to the US border, dozens of people were killed and injured. The fire started late on Monday at a building in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, which is close to El Paso, Texas. Images from the scene showed ambulances, […]
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Tue 28 March 2023: Black children in England and Wales are six times more likely to be strip-searched by police, according to a report that finds children were failed by those sworn to protect them. The report, released on Monday by Children’s Commissioner Rachel de Souza, found nearly 3,000 children were strip-searched from 2018 to […]
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Tue 28 March 2023: A bus carrying pilgrims was caught in an accident in Saudi Arabia and burst into flames Monday, killing 20 people and injuring more than two dozen others. The bus was ferrying passengers to Mecca when it was in a collision on a bridge. Transporting worshippers to Mecca and Medina, the holiest […]
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Tue 28 March 2023: The moon was long thought to be dry, but over the last few decades, several missions have shown there is water both on the surface and trapped inside minerals. Scientists say they have discovered water trapped inside tiny beads of glass scattered across the moon, suggesting a potential reservoir of this […]
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