Author: News Desk

Sydney, Australia: The Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, has joined the WorldPride March along with 50,000 people across the Sydney Harbour Bridge. in support of pride and recognition of the long fight for equality for the LGBTQI community. The Australian PM stated that it was an honour to acknowledge those who had fought to advance human rights. “It was incredible to walk across Sydney Harbour Bridge with WorldPride this morning, supporting human rights campaigners from Australia and across the world,” Mr. Albanese shared. “No matter who you are, who you love, or where you live, you should be valued, equal,…

Qatar: The United Nations Secretary General Mr. Antonio Guterres has condemned rich countries for throttling poor nations with “predatory” interest rates and crippling fuel prices. During his speech at the UN’s Least Developed Countries (LDC) summit in Qatar, Mr. Guterres stated that wealthy nations should provide $500 billion annually to help others “trapped in vicious cycles” that block their efforts to boost economies and improve health and education. “You [LDCs] represent one in eight people on Earth. I have enormous admiration for your remarkable efforts to achieve and sustain graduation. But your countries are also trapped in vicious cycles that…

Geneva, Switzerland: After assertions by the United States that the virus was probably leaked from a Chinese laboratory and which have prompted vehement denials from Beijing, the World Health Organization has encouraged all nations to share what they know about the origins of COVID-19. This week, US Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Mr. Christopher Wray stated to Fox News that the FBI believed the COVID-19 pandemic’s origin was “most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan,” a city in China that is home to a virus research lab and where the first COVID infections occurred in late 2019. “Not so…

Cambodia: Foreign diplomats expressed concern over a 27-year prison sentence given to the opposition leader of Cambodia Mr. Kem Sokha after his conviction for treason in what was described as a highly politicised trial, prompting the government to accuse Western nations of political interference and arrogance. Mr. Kem Sokha, the 69-year-old co-founder of the nation’s now-banned opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), was found guilty of putting together a covert scheme in cooperation with foreign organisations to depose Prime Minister Mr. Hun Sen, who has ruled Cambodia with an iron fist for nearly 40 years. Mr. Kem Sokha disputed the…

United States: Tom Sizemore, the actor best remembered for roles in Saving Private Ryan and The Relic, passed away at the age of 61, according to a statement from his manager. The actor went into a brain aneurysm at his Los Angeles home on February 18th 2023. Sizemore has remained in a coma in the intensive care unit. According to his manager, the actor passed away peacefully at a hospital in Burbank, California. With his well-received roles in “Natural Born Killers” and the cult classic crime film “Heat,” Sizemore shot to fame. But serious substance dependency, abuse allegations and multiple…

South Korea: The telomere, also known as the fuse, is now known to be abnormally short in the cells of senior people who are generally healthy but have detected early signs of depressive symptoms and cognitive decline, such as memory loss. This finding was made by researchers in South Korea. Every one of our chromosomes has a small, slow-burning “fuse” linked to their ends, and as we age naturally, each of our cells loses more and more of that essential line. The randomised controlled trial adds more support to the theory that all cells eventually reach a point where they…

United States: Wayne Shorter, one of the best jazz saxophonists, passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 89. Shorter was a well-known player on the jazz scene in the late 1950s and is recognised for influencing much of jazz music in the 20th century. Miles Davis, Carlos Santana, and Herbie Hancock were just a few of the legends the 12-time Grammy winner performed with. Shorter’s spokesperson stated that he passed away on 2nd March 2023 with his family by his side. https://twitter.com/thejazzestate/status/1631393478423748626?s=20 A consistent theme emerged in the flood of social media tributes that is ‘gone, but not…

Canada: Sunshine Earth Labs, a Canadian biosciences company, announced that it has received a licence to produce and sell cocaine, reflecting the federal health agency’s efforts to enhance the security of the nation’s addicts. The licencing agreement follows a bold policy change that decriminalised small amounts of cocaine, heroin, and other hard narcotics in an effort to combat an opioid addiction crisis that has claimed thousands of lives. British Columbia received a criminal code exemption from Ottawa for the three-year experimental project with the intention of eradicating the stigma attached to drug use that prevents individuals from getting help. Activists…

United States: Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company for NASA, has sent four astronauts to the International Space Station. This crew include the first person from the Arab world to go for an extended monthslong stay. Shortly after midnight on 2nd March 2023, the Falcon rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, lighting up the night sky as it travelled up the East Coast. The trip to the International Space Station (ISS), a laboratory orbiting some 420KM (250 miles) above Earth, was expected to take nearly 25 hours, with rendezvous planned for about 06:15 GMT on 3rd…

Sri Lanka: A new report has stated that Sri Lanka’s economic downturn has resulted in a full-blown hunger crisis, with half of the families in the island nation forced to reduce the amount they feed their children. The Save the Children report warned that the Sri Lankan government and the international community must act now to prevent the country’s children from “becoming a lost generation.” Since the Sri Lankan government defaulted on its debt in 2021, soaring inflation and food, medicine, and fuel shortages, as well as a lack of stable employment, have left families in crisis. According to the World…