Day: February 17, 2023
A Life in Exile: Ukrainian Refugees in Germany, One Year Later
Just over a year ago, Vladimir Putin sent his army into Ukraine, forcing millions of Ukrainians into flight. Hundreds of thousands ended up in Germany. We checked in with some of them to find out how they have adjusted to their new lives.
UK Monopoly Regulator Investigating Google’s Search Deal With Apple
Google has been paying Apple a portion of search revenue generated by people using Google Chrome on iOS, The Register reported Friday, citing a source. This is one of the aspects of the relationship between the two tech goliaths that currently concerns…
Bodies of 18 migrants found in abandoned truck in Bulgaria
Police in Bulgaria have discovered an abandoned truck containing the bodies of 18 migrants who suffocated to death
Gunbattle raging after attack on police compound in Pakistan’s Karachi
A gunbattle was raging Friday night inside a Pakistan police compound in the port city of Karachi, officials and witnesses said, just weeks after a bomb blast at a police mosque in the country’s northwest killed over 80 officers. The police are frequen…
FBI investigating hack of its own computer network
It was not immediately clear when the incident occurred
Kharkiv’s year of war: ‘A bomb can fall on your home any time – and your life is over’
Ukraine’s northeastern city of Kharkiv put up a fierce resistance when Moscow’s forces launched their full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022. Russian troops eventually withdrew back to their side of the border, 40 kilometres north of Ukraine’s secon…
Remarkable survival stories continue 11 days after killer earthquakes
One harrowing video shows a dust-covered man being pulled from debris in Turkey asking to borrow a phone to check on his family.