Thu 07 April 2022: Google recently booted over a dozen apps from its Play Store—among them Muslim prayer apps with 10 million-plus downloads, a barcode scanner, and a clock—after researchers discovered secret data-harvesting code hidden within them. Creepier still, the clandestine code was engineered by a company linked to a Virginia defense contractor, which paid developers […]
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Thu 07 April 2022: The British government’s increase in national insurance contributions came into effect Wednesday, reigniting controversy over its handling of Britain’s escalating cost-of-living crisis. Employees pay national insurance on their wages, employers pay contributions for their staff and the self-employed pay it on their profits. Effective today, it has increased by 1.25 percentage […]
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Thu 07 April 2022: Pakistan’s Supreme Court is expected to complete a hearing on Prime Minister Imran Khan’s blocking of an opposition move to oust him. The decision is scheduled to be announced later on Thursday by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial. Khan’s detractors claim the action was unconstitutional and has thrown the nuclear-armed country […]
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Thu 07 April 2022: The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) will vote on Thursday on whether to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council. U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield made the call for Russia to be stripped of its seat on the 47-member Human Rights Council in the wake of videos and photos of streets in […]
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Daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin Maria Vorontsova and Katerina Tikhonova, ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Thu 07 April 2022: Latest sanctions target Katerina Tikhonova and Maria Vorontsova as US accuses them of hiding their father’s wealth. The latest round of sanctions by the United States on Russia has drawn renewed scrutiny to the family life of Russian President […]
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Wed 06 April 2022: The United States has targeted Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev in the latest round of “full blocking sanctions,” the White House announced on Wednesday. “Full blocking sanctions on Russian elites and their family members, including sanctions on: President Putin’s adult children, Foreign Minister Lavrov’s […]
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Wed 06 April 2022: Aakar Patel says immigration authorities stopped him from flying to the US after he was placed on a ‘look-out circular’. New Delhi, India – Indian immigration authorities have barred Aakar Patel, chair of Amnesty International in India, from travelling to the United States because of an order issued by the Central Bureau […]
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Wed 06 April 2022: Japan on Wednesday said it will cooperate with Qatar on efforts to stabilize global energy markets reeling due to the Russia-Ukraine war. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida discussed the Ukraine situation and its impact on global energy supplies in a phone call with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, according […]
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Wed 06 April 2022: The Yemeni army announced yesterday evening that it had monitored 130 violations of the ceasefire committed by the Houthis in seven governorates, in just one day. A statement issued by the army’s media office said: “The Iranian Houthi militia continues its violations of the declared ceasefire on all fronts of the […]
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Wed 06 April 2022: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the images emerging from Bucha this week do not “look far short of genocide”. “I’m afraid when you look at what’s happening in Bucha, the revelations that we are seeing from what [Russian President Vladimir] Putin has done in Ukraine, which doesn’t look far […]
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