Mon 21 February 2022: Truth Social, Donald Trump’s new social media venture, debuted late Sunday in Apple’s App Store, possibly signalling the former president’s return to social media after being banned from multiple platforms last year. The software went live soon before midnight ET and was automatically downloaded to Apple Inc devices belonging to users […]
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Mon 21 February 2022: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) begins hearings on Monday over Myanmar’s preliminary objections to a genocide case brought over the military’s brutal 2017 crackdown on the mostly Muslim Rohingya. The proceedings have been given added urgency and complicated by the coup that took place in Myanmar a little more than […]
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Sun 20 February 2022: Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Putin agreed on the need to find a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis. In a phone conversation lasting 105 minutes, they also agreed on “the need to favour a diplomatic solution to the ongoing crisis and to do everything to achieve one”, the Elysee said, adding […]
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Sun 20 February 2022: Despite a “lack of substantive progress” so far, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said on Saturday that the kingdom was looking to schedule a fifth round of direct talks with rival Iran, and urged Tehran to change its behavior in the region. “We are looking to schedule a fifth round of direct […]
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Sun 20 February 2022: The Queen has tested positive for Covid-19, Buckingham Palace has confirmed. Her Majesty is said have mild cold-like symptoms – and expects to continue with light duties at Windsor this week. Her Majesty was being closely monitored after Prince Charles caught the virus just days after pair had been in close […]
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Sun 20 February 2022: Russia is planning the largest war since 1945, according to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. “The fact is that all the signs are that the plan has already in some senses begun,” he said in a BBC interview broadcast Sunday from the Munich Security Conference, after two Ukrainian soldiers were killed […]
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Sun 20 February 2022: According to the Paris prosecutor’s office, a French modeling agent who was close to disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead on Saturday in his prison cell in Paris, where he was being held in an investigation into the rape of minors and the trafficking of minors for sexual exploitation. […]
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Sun 20 February 2022: After a thrashing at the hands of Kell Brook in the sixth round, British boxer Amir Khan says he’s thinking about retiring from the sport. Khan, 35, was outclassed by compatriot Brook from start to finish in Saturday’s fight and appeared to be in serious trouble before the referee intervened to […]
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Sun 20 February 2022: More than a century after they were pillaged by British troops, two Benin bronzes have been returned to a traditional palace in Nigeria, raising hopes that thousands more artefacts will be returned to their ancestral home. The artefacts were stolen from the Benin Kingdom, now southwestern Nigeria, by explorers and colonisers […]
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Sat 19 February 2022: As many as 58 students at Shiralakoppa in Shivamogga district who had refused to remove their hijab and staged a demonstration against the government pre-university college administration were suspended, reported PTI. They were suspended on Friday and were told that they should not come to the college, a student told reporters. […]
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