Fri 14 January 2022: Turkey is among 10 countries in the world with the national capabilities to design, build, and maintain a warship, the country’s president said on Friday. Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended the commissioning ceremony of an indigenously built testing and training ship, the TCG Ufuk, at the Istanbul Maritime Shipyard. “Our country’s first […]
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Fri 14 January 2022: Sixty days after the completion of data collection, the Croatian Bureau of Statistics, DZS, said the first results of the 2021 census showed a drastic fall in the population. According to the last 2011 census, there were 4,284,889 people living in Croatia. That number has dropped now to about 3.88 million. […]
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Fri 14 January 2022: Facebook is facing a $3.2 billion class-action lawsuit in the United Kingdom for allegedly misusing user data. It has been accused of abusing its market dominance by gaining access to roughly 44 million consumers’ personal information. Liza Lovdahl Gormsen, a senior adviser at the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom, […]
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Fri 14 January 2022: Officials confirmed that several Ukrainian government websites were down on Friday morning as a result of a “massive” cyberattack. “As a result of a massive cyberattack, the websites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a number of other government agencies are temporarily down,” Oleg Nikolenko, the spokesperson for the Ministry […]
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Fri 14 January 2022: The number of new COVID-19 cases in Africa is continuing to decline despite the Omicron variant overtaking Delta as the leading variant on the continent. This is according to World Health Organisation (WHO) Africa Region Emergency Director, Dr Abdou Salam Gueye. Cumulative COVID-19 cases across the continent have crossed the 10 […]
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Fri 14 January 2022: Poorer nations last month rejected more than 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines distributed by the global programme COVAX, mainly due to their approaching expiry date, a UNICEF official has said. The figure shows the difficulties of vaccinating the global population despite growing supplies of jabs, with COVAX getting closer to […]
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Thu 13 January 2022: The UN Secretary-General has warned that millions of Afghans are on the verge of starvation, urging the international community to fund the UN’s $5 billion humanitarian appeal, release Afghanistan’s frozen assets, and restart its banking system in order to avert economic and social collapse. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told reporters on Thursday […]
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Fri 14 January 2022: Film stars including Mark Ruffalo, Susan Sarandon, Gael García Bernal and Viggo Mortensen, have backed Harry Potter actress Emma Watson, after her social media post about Palestinian solidarity drew ire from Israeli officials. “We join Emma Watson in support of the simple statement that ‘solidarity is a verb’, including meaningful solidarity with Palestinians […]
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Thu 13 January 2022: According to federal health officials in the United States, the Omicron COVID-19 form is so contagious that it will infect the majority of the country, and the pandemic has been compared to a “natural disaster.” Authorities are optimistic that the surge will subside quickly, even as Omicron continues to set new […]
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Thu 13 January 2022: The withdrawal of Russian-led forces from Kazakhstan has begun, according to local media on Thursday. At a farewell ceremony held at the Sagadat Nurmagambetov Land Forces Military University in Almaty, the former capital, peacekeeping forces from Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan were transferred back to their respective countries. Kazakhstan’s Deputy […]
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