THOUSANDS MARCH IN GREECE IN ANGRY TRAIN CRASH PROTEST

Sun 12 March 2023: In response to Greece’s deadliest rail accident, which left dozens of people dead last month, thousands of people have demonstrated in central Athens. The demonstrators demanded justice for those accountable for the February 28 head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train that left 57 people dead and expressed […]

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CONSTRUCTION OF BIOVAC ULTRA-COLD STORAGE FACILITY COMPLETED IN CAPE TOWN

Biovac hosted DTIC Min. Ebrahim Patel, US Consul Gen. Todd P. Haskell & guests at the unveiling of the Biovac Freezer Farm in Cape Town. Sun 12 March 2023: The commitments made towards investing in South Africa by Pfizer have been realised through the completion of the construction of a Freezer Farm facility at the […]

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THREE YEARS LATER, WHAT WE KNOW: HOW DID COVID START?

[Nataliia Shulga/Al Jazeera] Sun 12 March 2023: Scientists lean towards a natural spillover from animals, but China’s opacity means a lab leak can’t be ruled out. Three years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, questions linger about the origins of the virus that shut down borders, forced humanity […]

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ISRAEL SEES ONE OF ITS BIGGEST-EVER PROTESTS AGAINST NETANYAHU’S JUDICIAL CHANGES

Sun 12 March 2023: For the tenth week in a row, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government’s plans to limit the Supreme Court’s powers. The rallies on Saturday drew a record 500,000 people, making them some of the “biggest in Israeli history,” according […]

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SEXUAL ASSAULT REPORTS INCREASE AT US MILITARY ACADEMIES

Sun 12 March 2023: Reported sexual assaults at US military academies shot up during the 2021-22 school year, and one in five female students told an anonymous survey that they had experienced unwanted sexual contact, the Pentagon said Friday. The survey results were the highest since the Defense Department began collecting that data, The Associated […]

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FAKE ‘NUCLEAR BOMB’ WARNING ON TV AND RADIOS SCARES RUSSIANS

Sat 11 March 2023: Some television and radio broadcasts in Russia were interrupted by an interesting announcement on Thursday. After all the broadcasts in the Sverdlovsk region, including the cities of Moscow and Yekaterinburg, were cut off, a message was broadcast asking the audience to put on gas masks and descend into the shelters in […]

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UKRAINE THROWS ORTHODOX CHURCH OUT OF FAMOUS KIEV CAVE MONASTERY

Sat 11 March 2023: The Ukrainian government has expelled the Orthodox Church from the world famous Monastery of the Caves in Kiev due to contractual violations, according to an official letter on Friday. The contract, concluded in 2013, is to be terminated as of March 29, said the letter from the state administration of the museum site published by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The […]

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ERUPTION AT INDONESIA’S MERAPI VOLCANO BLANKETS VILLAGES WITH ASH

Sat 11 March 2023: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi has erupted, spewing out smoke and ash that blanketed villages near the crater and forcing authorities to halt tourism and mining activities on the slopes of the country’s most active volcano. The volcano, located in Indonesia’s Yogyakarta special region, erupted at about 12pm (05:00 GMT) on Saturday and unleashed […]

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RUSSIANS HOLD EASTERN BAKHMUT BUT UKRAINIANS CONTROL THE WEST: REPORT

Sat 11 March 2023: The river Bakhmutka, which flows through the city centre, is now the front line, according to a daily intelligence update tweeted by the Ministry of Defence in London. The Russian mercenary group Wagner currently controls the majority of the eastern half of the beleaguered Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, although the Ukrainian […]

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