Sat 24 December 2022: Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, has instructed the leaders of the nation’s defense sector to step up efforts to ensure that the Russian army receives all the weapons, equipment, and military hardware it needs to fight in Ukraine as soon as possible. Putin made the remarks on Friday while visiting […]
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Sat 24 December 2022: In January, British health workers will begin a new round of strikes as their ongoing pay and conditions dispute with the government is expected to go until 2023. Following a two-day walkout in December, thousands of nurses will strike once more on January 18 and 19, the Royal College of Nursing […]
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Fri 23 December 2022: The oil corporation Shell has stated that it will pay 15 million euros ($15.9 million) to communities in Nigeria that were impacted by many oil pipeline spills in the Niger Delta. “The settlement is on a no admission of liability basis, and settles all claims and ends all pending litigation related […]
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Fri 23 December 2022: French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, also known as the ‘Bikini Killer’, has been released from a Nepali jail on Friday (Dec 23). As per an AFP report, Sobhraj was being transferred to the immigration detention centre ahead of his deportation to France. Sobhraj’s lawyer, however, said his client wanted to get […]
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Fri 23 December 2022: The minister of higher education in Afghanistan’s Taliban government has defended his decision to ban women from universities – a decree that triggered a global backlash and protests inside the country. Afghanistan’s Taliban-run administration announced earlier this week it had closed universities to women partly due to female students not adhering to its interpretation of […]
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Fri 23 December 2022: Following the US release of information that North Korea has been supplying arms to the Russian mercenary group Wagner, in breach of UN Security Council resolutions, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said: The UK supports the US assessment that North Korea has completed an arms delivery to Russia for use by […]
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Fri 23 December 2022: ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of popular video app TikTok, said some employees improperly accessed the TikTok user data of two journalists and were no longer employed by the company, an email seen by the Reuters news agency shows. ByteDance employees accessed the data as part of an unsuccessful effort to […]
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Thu 22 December 2022: India’s Union minister Anurag Thakur on Thursday said 104 YouTube channels, 45 videos, four Facebook accounts, three Instagram accounts, five Twitter handles and six websites have been blocked for spreading misinformation and threatening national security. Responding to questions in the Rajya Sabha, Mr Thakur said section 69A of the Information Technology […]
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Thu 22 December 2022: Turkey and Saudi Arabia have strongly condemned the Taliban’s nationwide ban on women attending private and public universities. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday that the ban was “neither Islamic nor humane”. Speaking at a joint news conference with his Yemeni counterpart, Cavusoglu urged the Taliban to reverse the decision. “What […]
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Thu 22 December 2022: With the surge in Covid cases in China and other countries, one of the most popular tourist attractions of the country Taj Mahal in Agra is put on alert, confirmed the District Health Information Officer in Agra. Domestic and foreign tourists come every day in large numbers to visit the Taj […]
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