Tue 14 February 2023: The desperate searches for earthquake survivors in Turkey and Syria are entering their final hours, with experts saying the window for rescues has nearly closed given the length of time that has passed and the severity of the building collapses. Eduardo Reinoso Angulo, a professor at the Institute of Engineering at […]
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Tue 14 February 2023: Govt efforts to ban the BBC documentary drew more attention to it and showed the inefficacy of such measures. If one were to rank the top incident that has marred Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political career, it would be the Gujarat riots of 2002. And a year before India goes to […]
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Mon 13 February 2023: The United States is the world’s biggest spy power with the widest intelligence network, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a briefing on Monday. “It is the United States that is the world’s biggest spy power with the world’s widest intelligence network,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said, TASS […]
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Mon 13 February 2023: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says he has offered to open two border crossings with Syria for the international community to send humanitarian aid to the quake-hit northern parts of Turkey’s neighbour. “We told the international community and the UN that they could send humanitarian aid through the two gates under […]
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Mon 13 February 2023: At least 4,815 children were sexually abused by members of the Portuguese Catholic Church – mostly priests – over the past 70 years, a commission investigating the issue said in its final report on Monday. “(We want) to pay a sincere tribute to those who were abuse victims during their childhood and dared to give […]
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Mon 13 February 2023: On Monday, Maia Sandu, the president of Moldova, accused Russia of planning to use saboteurs posing as demonstrators to violently remove the country’s pro-European administration. President Maia Sandu made her comments after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said last week his country had uncovered a Russian intelligence plan “for the destruction of Moldova”, and days after […]
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Mon 13 February 2023: Hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets of the Spanish capital on Sunday to protest what they say is the crumbling public healthcare system in the region of Madrid. Government figures estimate that around 250,000 participated in the protest, while organizers claimed up to a million people took part to […]
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Mon 13 February 2023: Life expectancy for older people has fallen by two years in just a decade, said experts. A toxic combination of an increasingly stressed NHS, fallout from the pandemic and unhealthy lifestyles is to blame, they believe, The Daily Mail reported. The fall bucks a long-term trend in which life expectancy had risen […]
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Mon 13 February 2023: The United States has told its citizens on Sunday (12 February) to leave Russia immediately due to the war in Ukraine and the risk of arbitrary arrest or harassment by Russian law enforcement agencies. “Do not travel to Russia due to … the potential for harassment and the singling out of […]
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People mourn loved ones at a mass grave area following a major earthquake in Baris village near the Elbistan district of Kahramanmaras, southeastern Turkey, 10 February 2023. EPA / Sedat Suna Mon 13 February 2023: Antakya and Iskenderun, Turkey – After the earthquakes struck Turkey last week, Erdem Avsaroglu’s sister, her husband, and their two children […]
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