Thu 09 March 2023: Ice in the Antarctic sea reached its lowest monthly extent in February, breaking a previous record from 2017, the European Union’s climate monitoring service has said. In a report released on Tuesday, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said that Antarctic sea ice shrunk 34 percent below the average for February. “Our latest […]
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Thu 09 March 2023: Ukraine’s Energoatom state company said the missile attacks caused the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which is under Russian control, to lose electric power supply. “The last link between the occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and the Ukrainian power system was cut off,” it said in a statement. Energoatom said that the fifth and […]
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Thu 09 March 2023: Muhyiddin Yassin, who was Malaysia’s prime minister as the country locked down over COVID-19, is expected to be charged on Friday with corruption over the alleged diversion of funds to his party. Muhyiddin went voluntarily for questioning at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) on Thursday morning in relation to allegations that […]
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Wed 08 March 2023: NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned that Bakhmut might fall into Russian hands in the coming days following months of intense fighting. “We can not rule out that Bakhmut may eventually fall in the coming days,” Stoltenberg told reporters in Stockholm on the sidelines of a meeting of EU defence ministers. US, […]
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Wed 08 March 2023: The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said it is “profoundly concerned” by the United Kingdom government’s proposal to deport asylum seekers without considering their claims. If passed, the UNHCR has said, this it will amount to an “asylum ban”. It has accused Rishi Sunak’s government of “extinguishing the right […]
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Wed 08 March 2023: Plastics entering the world’s oceans have surged by an “unprecedented” amount since 2005 and could nearly triple by 2040 if no further action is taken, according to research published on Wednesday. An estimated 171 trillion plastic particles were afloat in the oceans by 2019, according to peer-reviewed research led by the 5 Gyres Institute, […]
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Wed 08 March 2023: German investigators uncovered an evidence that showed a pro-Ukrainian group sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines last year, local media reported on Tuesday. Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, denied the Ukrainian government had any involvement in the pipeline attacks. “Although I enjoy collecting amusing conspiracy theories about the […]
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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan (C) leaves after appearing before the anti-terrorist court in Islamabad [File: Aamir Qureshi/AFP] Wed 08 March 2023: Former British Ambassador Craig Murray has alleged that US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) deposed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan as prime minister for opposing United States drone campaign, ARY News reported […]
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Tue 07 March 2023: Days after opposition parties opened up a front, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that two agencies will probe the allegations of Chinese interference in the country’s elections. The National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA) and the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) will look into the […]
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Tue 07 March 2023: New intelligence reviewed by U.S. officials suggests that a pro-Ukrainian group carried out the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines last year, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. There was no evidence that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy or his top lieutenants in Ukraine were involved in the operation, or that the perpetrators were […]
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