Wed 22 February 2023: A United States judge has ruled that family members of victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are not entitled to funds from Afghanistan’s central bank. In the ruling on Tuesday, US District Judge George Daniels said that awarding the families money seized from the Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) would require […]
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Wed 22 February 2023: Malcolm X’s daughter has said she plans to sue a number of government agencies for allegedly covering up their involvement in his shooting death on February 21, 1965. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Ilyasah Shabazz, one of Malcolm X’s daughters, joined with civil rights attorney Ben Crump to announce […]
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Wed 22 February 2023: Wikipedia’s online newspaper, written and edited by community members, has published a report claiming that their investigations reveal that the Adani group employed undeclared paid editors to write and sanitise related Wikipedia pages. While the Wikipedia report has been published in the aftermath of Hindenburg Research’s report on the Adani Group, it includes allegedly […]
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Tue 21 February 2023: The war in Ukraine cost the global economy “well over $1.6 trillion” last year, according to a study released Tuesday by the German Institute of Economics. According to the study, global production losses could amount to another $1 trillion or so in 2023. The institute’s model calculation is based on the gross domestic […]
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Tue 21 February 2023: In the ongoing conflict between himself and certain Russian elites, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the wealthy founder of the Wagner mercenary group in Russia, has accused unspecified officials of denying his men of enough ammo. With his Wagner Group leading Russia’s months-long battle for the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk area, […]
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Tue 21 February 2023: A panel of Japan’s Justice Ministry proposed raising the age of consent from 13 to 16 as part of a major overhaul of sex crime legislation. Currently, The Asian country has the lowest consent age among developed countries as well as the G7 group. The legislation aims to criminalize the grooming […]
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Tue 21 February 2023: In a case involving the encouragement of violence, a Pakistani court on Monday granted protective bail to the former prime minister Imran Khan. The Lahore High Court’s two-judge bench granted the former premier a 10-day bail and directed police not to detain him until March 3. Khan has been involved in […]
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Tue 21 February 2023: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that perversion, up to pedophilia, was advertised as the norm in the West. “Look at what they do to their own people: the destruction of families, of cultural and national identities, and the perversion that is child abuse all the way up to paedophilia are advertised as the norm… and […]
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Tue 21 February 2023: A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck the Turkey-Syria border region, killing at least six people, two weeks after the area was devastated by quakes that killed more than 47,000 people in both countries. Monday’s quake hit the city of Defne in Hatay province at 8:04pm (17:04 GMT) and was strongly felt in […]
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Mon 20 February 2023: After being devastated earlier this month by temblors that killed tens of thousands of people, a shallow magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck the Turkey-Syria border region. The depth of Monday’s aftershock in Turkey’s Hatay province was 2 kilometers (1.2 miles), according to the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre. The quake struck the town […]
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