Rage, fear in India’s Azamgarh over land acquisition for airport
Months-old protest becomes ‘fight for survival’ as mainly marginalised residents of eight villages resist gov’t’s move.
Day: February 7, 2023
Nintendo cuts its full-year earnings and revenue outlook, including operating income from ~$3.8B to ~$3.6B, and revises Switch sales forecasts from ~19M to ~18M (Bloomberg)
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Nintendo cuts its full-year earnings and revenue outlook, including operating income from ~$3.8B to ~$3.6B, and revises Switch sales forecasts from ~19M to ~18M — Nintendo Co. cut its full-year earnings and revenue outloo…
South Sudan ‘failed’ by international aid system as food crisis intensifies
Catholic charity Cafod says local NGOs are best placed to respond on the frontline but are being cut out of the process South Sudan is facing the world’s most severe food insecurity crisis, yet the local groups most effective at delivering aid are not …
EU to launch platform to fight Russian, Chinese disinformation – POLITICO Europe
EU to launch platform to fight Russian, Chinese disinformation POLITICO EuropeEU to deploy fake news experts in its offices globally: Borrell EuronewsEU steps up disinformation fight as threats to staff abroad rise EURA…
France hit by more strikes as part of protest against raising pension age
President Emmanuel Macron wants to increase the country’s retirement age from 62 to 64..
Earthquake death toll tops 7,200 in Turkey and Syria as race for survivors continues
Rescue workers fanned across Turkey and Syria Tuesday in a second day of desperate searches to find survivors from the massive earthquake and aftershocks that had the death toll climbing by the hour.
Rescuers work for second day to find quake survivors as death toll surpasses 5,000
Rescue workers fanned across Turkey and Syria Tuesday in a second day of desperate searches to find survivors from the massive earthquake and aftershocks that had the death toll climbing by the hour.
Balloon Bursts Hopes for End to Spiraling US-China Tensions
Monday was supposed to be a day of modest hope in the U.S.-China relationship.
Separatist rebels take New Zealand pilot hostage in Papua
Separatist rebels say they have set fire to a small plane carrying six people after it landed at a remote airport in Indonesia’s restive Papua province and taken its pilot, a New Zealand citizen, hostage.