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Headlines of the week: 6–12 February 2023
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Cambodia's Hun Sen orders shutdown of last independent local news outlet — ground.news: 66 sources — 12 February 2023 (LINK)
New Zealand cancels flights as deluge from cyclone looms — ground.news: 57 sources — 12 February 2023 (LINK)
— Air New Zealand cancels domestic and international flights to and from Auckland. Cyclone Gabrielle expected to dump up to 10 inches of rain on the nation's largest city. Two weeks ago, Aucklanders experienced the wettest day ever recorded in the city. Gusts of about 130 kilometers per hour (80 miles per hour) expected.
Earthquake death toll tops 28,000, Turkey starts legal action — reuters — 12 February 2023 (LINK)
Diplomats battle it out in runoff for Cyprus' presidency: winner will face the tough challenge of trying to revive stalemated peace talks with breakaway Turkish Cypriots — ground.news: 37 sources — 12 February 2023 (LINK)
Sojourner Truth's real 'Ain't I a Woman?' speech was nothing like the famous one we all read — upworthy.com — 12 February 2023 (LINK)
El Salvador's bitcoin risks 'have not materialized,' IMF says — theblock.co — 11 February 2023 (LINK)
Harry Styles, Beyonce and Wet Leg win at U.K.'s Brit Awards — ground.news: 69 sources — 11 February 2023 (LINK)
Russia's Casualties In Ukraine Nearly Triple America's Vietnam Losses As War Approaches 1 Year Mark — benzinga — 11 February 2023 (LINK)
Swiss court orders Nestlé to pay $2.8m to bullied ex-employee — bloomberg/straits time — 11 February 2023 (LINK)
— "We sincerely regret the almost 12 years of litigation and wish to bring this legal matter to a final close,"a Nestlé spokesperson said.
Harry Styles, Beyonce and Wet Leg win at U.K.'s Brit Awards — ground.news: 69 sources — 11 February 2023 (LINK)
FullFact lists the fake news on the Turkey earthquake — fullfact.org — 10 February 2023 (LINK)
The pandemic killed off 64 airlines — CNN — 11 February 2023 (LINK)
— Economy fares have increased by an average of 36% for 2023, according to data from Flight Centre, a UK-based booking agency. Fares to New Zealand, for example, have increased 81% year on year, they say, while flights to South Africa from the UK are up by 42% in economy and 70% in business. Overall, bookings are still down — by 22% globally for the first quarter of 2023, compared to 2019, according to ForwardKeys, who analyze data from the International Air Transport Association ticketing database — in other words, the world's legacy carriers. The Caribbean is suffering the least — just 3% down on 2019 bookings — while Asia Pacific is still lagging at 46% down.
Cactus Is Replacing Snow In Switzerland Mountains, Sparking Global Warming Concern — ndtv — 11 February 2023 (LINK)
El Salvador's bitcoin risks 'have not materialized,' IMF says — theblock.co — 11 February 2023 (LINK)
British organised crime boss arrested in Thailand — Guardian — 11 February 2023 (LINK)
A $162,500 per year Swiss boarding school — possibly the world's most expensive — says it's embracing AI tech like ChatGPT to help students learn — Business Insider — 11 February 2023 (LINK)
Nicaragua sentences Catholic bishop to 26 years in prison — npr — 10 February 2023 (LINK)
Iran frees dissident Farhad Meysami after photos of his emaciated condition cause outrage online — CNN — 10 February 2023 (LINK)
U.S. Blacklists Chinese Companies It Links to Balloon Program — wsj ● — 10 February 2023 (LINK)
Moldova's government collapsed Friday as pro-Western Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita resigned, adding to a series of crises that have gripped the small nation since Russia invaded its neighbor, Ukraine. — ground.news: 97 sources — 10 February 2023 (LINK)
Lyft posts worst trading day ever after grim earnings report shows the company falling behind Uber, drops 36% — Business Insider — 10 February 2023 (LINK)
More than half of Twitter's top 1,000 advertisers stopped spending on platform, data show — CNN — 10 February 2023 (LINK)
700,000 in danger of glacial lake floods in Switzerland — lenews.ch — 10 February 2023 (LINK)
Carlos Saura, who led Spanish art cinema's revival, dead at 91 — ground.news: 63 sources — 10 February 2023 (LINK)
Chariots Of Fire director Hugh Hudson dies aged 86 — ground.news: 32 sources — 10 February 2023 (LINK)
Bed Bath & Beyond Canada going out of business, closing 54 stores — cbc.ca — 10 February 2023 (LINK)
Twitter went down because an employee accidentally deleted data, and there was nobody left on the team responsible due to Elon Musk's cuts, report says — Business Insider — 10 February 2023 (LINK)
"Petulant" Elon Musk fired Twitter engineer for explaining why fewer people are reading his tweets — salon — 10 February 2023 (LINK)
— Musk fired an engineer who said there was no evidence the algorithm was biased against him
Republicans grilled ex-Twitter executives about censorship. They found out Trump requested takedowns — mashable — 9 February 2023 (LINK)
Bahamas songbird is under threat of extinction – but preserving old pine forests will help save it — theconversation.com — 10 February 2023 (LINK)
Climate activist paid $2,000 a month for role in Canada's BC highway blockades — dailyhive — 10 February 2023 (LINK)
Estonia's EU "Digital Residency" Is Popular In China — And Taiwan — worldcrunch.com — 10 February 2023 (LINK)
— "E-Residency of Estonia" card allows the holder to connect remotely to Estonia's government and business networks and enjoy services such as opening a bank account, forming a company, making financial payments and other services essentially equivalent to those of an Estonian resident. China accounts for the fifth largest contingent of digital residents after Russia, Ukraine, Germany and Finland, and the number one that's not on the European continent.
New AI methods to tackle the illegal wildlife trade on the internet — phys.org — 9 February 2023 (LINK)
Canada declares moratorium on deep-sea mining at global ocean conservation summit — nationalobserver — 9 February 2023 (LINK)
U.S., UK impose sanctions on Russian cybercrime group Trickbot — pbs — 9 February 2023 (LINK)
Geneva mediation expert on Ukraine-Russia negotiations: 'It's important to explore the various options' — source — 9 February 2023 (LINK)
News Corp to cut 1,250 jobs after missing second-quarter estimates — Guardian — 9 February 2023 (LINK)
Yahoo laying off 20% of staff — roughly 1,600 people: report — reuters / cbc.ca — 9 February 2023 (LINK)
Microsoft Kills Its Industrial Metaverse Team After 4 Months — theinformation.com — 9 February 2023 (LINK)
Tennis star hit with lifetime ban after being found guilty of 135 counts of match-fixing — mirror.co.uk — 9 February 2023 (LINK)
EU calls out Twitter for incomplete disinformation report — AP — 9 February 2023 (LINK)
Rep. Gaetz introduces resolution to halt U.S. aid to Ukraine → — ground.news: 12 sources — 9 February 2023 (LINK)
Nicaragua government frees more than 200 political prisoners — ground.news: 178 sources — 9 February 2023 (LINK)
Scientists finally discover how our sixth sense works — thebrighterside — 9 February 2023 (LINK)
Generative AI Copyright Overview Part 1 — jdsupra.com — 9 February 2023 (LINK)
— In a previous case a U.S. circuit court ruled: "Google's commercial nature and profit motivation do not justify denial of fair use" for digitizing the texts of published and copyrighted books. But "the works produced by a generative AI system may serve as a significant market substitute — this weighs against fair use."
Hope fading as deaths in Turkey, Syria quake pass 11,000 — ground.news: 125 sources — 8 February 2023 (LINK)
Swiss Red Cross shakeup sparks ramification fears: worst internal crisis ever — genevasolutions — 8 February 2023 (LINK)
— As the winter holidays were about to start, the Swiss Red Cross issued a statement in December announcing that it was "separating" from its director, Markus Mader, and thanking him for his many years of service. A few days later, four members of its management council were added to the list of departures. A spokesperson in the group's headquarters in Bern said the decision had been taken due to "differences of opinion".
Putin approved supply of missiles that shot down MH17 in 2014, investigators say — ground.news: 8 sources — 8 February 2023 (LINK)
How rich countries and big pharma companies hinder the human right to science — swissinfo — 8 February 2023 (LINK)
Switzerland gives 2,500-year-old stone head sculpture back to Peru — abc.net.au — 9 February 2023 (LINK)
Disney's CEO, Bob Iger, Just Announced 7,000 Layoffs in the Worst Possible Way — inc — 9 February 2023 (LINK)
Life-altering drug delivers incredible results in pancreatic cancer treatment — thebrighterside — 9 February 2023 (LINK)
— A small molecule inhibitor that attacks the difficult to target, cancer-causing gene mutation KRAS, found in nearly 30 percent of all human tumors, successfully shrunk tumors or stopped cancer growth in preclinical models of pancreatic cancer, researchers from Penn Medicine's Abramson Cancer Center showed.
GitLab layoffs drive software company's shares down 12% — seekingalpha.com — 9 February 2023 (LINK)
It started 50 years ago with a used freighter. Now Geneva-based MSC is the world's largest shipping company — nzz — 9 February 2023 (LINK)
"An Irreversible Injustice": Missouri Executes Leonard "Raheem" Taylor Despite Doubts Over His Guilt — theintercept — 8 February 2023 (LINK)
7 Best Ski Gloves of 2023, According to Outdoor Experts: overall best Hestra Army Leather Heli Ski Glove ($160) — goodhousekeeping — 9 February 2023 (LINK)
UK's top court rejects challenge to Brexit deal's N.Ireland protocol — ground.news: 17 sources — 8 February 2023 (LINK)
Google's AI bot mistake wipes $100bn off shares — BBC — 8 February 2023 (LINK)
Google AI chatbot Bard offers inaccurate information in company ad — reuters — 8 February 2023 (LINK)
— It suggests the JWST was used to take the very first pictures of a planet outside the Earth's solar system, or exoplanets. This is inaccurate. The first pictures of exoplanets were taken by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in 2004, as confirmed by NASA.
ChatGPT Can Be Broken by Entering These Strange Words, And Nobody Is Sure Why — vice — 8 February 2023 (LINK)
Swiss space telescope makes enigmatic discovery — swissinfo — 8 February 2023 (LINK)
Groundbreaking study identifies the cause of ADHD: mutation in CDH2, a gene that encodes N-cadherin, which is responsible for helping in brain synapse activity and formation — thebrighterside — 8 February 2023 (LINK)
How rich countries and big pharma companies hinder the human right to science — swissinfo — 8 February 2023 (LINK)
Microsoft's new Bing and Edge hands-on: Surprisingly well-integrated AI — source — 7 February 2023 (LINK)
FTX Lawyers Sullivan & Cromwell Bill $7.5M for First 19 Day's Bankruptcy Work — coindesk — 8 February 2023 (LINK)
— The 151 staff assigned to the case worked a combined 6,500 hours in November looking at legal disputes, hacks, and corporate governance
Ukraine says Russia endures deadliest day as fighting escalates — theglobeandmail — 7 February 2023 (LINK)
Uganda ends mandate of UN Human Rights Office — source — 7 February 2023 (LINK)
Russian court upholds shutting top independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta — ground.news: 12 sources — 7 February 2023 (LINK)
North Korea stole more cryptocurrency assets in 2022 than in any other year and targeted the networks of foreign aerospace and defence companies, according to a currently confidential United Nations report seen by the Reuters news agency — ground.news: 31 sources — 7 February 2023 (LINK)
'Evil' Met Police officer who was unmasked as serial rapist jailed for at least 30 years — ground.news: 93 sources — 7 February 2023 (LINK)
Rishi Sunak's reshuffle in UK: putting the Treasury in charge — The Guardian — 7 February 2023 (LINK)
U.S. stocks swing as investors mull Powell remarks — finance.yahoo.com — 7 February 2023 (LINK)
UK energy company BP's profits double to $27.7 billion — ground.news: 55 sources — 7 February 2023 (LINK)
Russia's Lavrov arrives in Mali for talks with junta leaders — source — 7 February 2023 (LINK)
Microsoft's new Bing and Edge hands-on: Surprisingly well-integrated AI — source — 7 February 2023 (LINK)
Meta settles lawsuit over its infinity–symbol logo — seekingalpha — 7 February 2023 (LINK)
UN Chief Fears World Headed For 'Wider War' Over Ukraine-Russia — ground.news: 12 sources — 6 February 2023 (LINK)
China: UN experts alarmed by separation of 1 million Tibetan children from families and forced assimilation at residential schools — source — 6 February 2023 (LINK)
Steady rains set off mudslides that kill at least 36 in Peru — ground.news:46 sources — 6 February 2023 (LINK)
Mali junta expels UN mission's human rights chief over 'destabilising' actions — ground.news: 14 sources — 6 February 2023 (LINK)
— The decision comes after a UN Security Council briefing was critical of Mali.
Officials: Israeli troops kill 5 Palestinian gunmen in raid — ground.news: 56 sources — 6 February 2023 (LINK)
Five Argentine rugby players sentenced to life for murder — ground.news: 31 sources — 6 February 2023 (LINK)
Marines Charged in Capitol Riot Got Highly Sensitive Spy Jobs After Jan. 6 — theintercept — 6 February 2023 (LINK)
Pakistan's prime minister on Monday ordered authorities to unblock Wikipedia, the government announced, just days after the online encyclopedia was restricted for "blasphemous content" — ground.news: 70 sources — 6 February 2023 (LINK)
Presentation of findings of the UN Greening the Blue Report 2022 in Geneva and online 9 February — genevaenvironmentnetwork — 6 February 2023 (LINK)
Ukraine is [not?] set to replace Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov amid a series of corruption scandals, and ahead of an expected Russian offensive, according to a top Ukrainian lawmaker — ground.news: 65+ sources — 6 February 2023 (LINK)
— There'll be no changes at the top of Ukraine's defense ministry this week, David Arakhamia, leader of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's party in parliament, wrote on his Telegram channel. On Sunday, Arakhamia said Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov would be replaced, following a corruption scandal over which his deputy had already resigned. Reznikov had said he would only resign if Zelenskyy asked him to.Arakhamia said the military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov would become the new defense minister.
On Monday he wrote "There will be no personnel changes in the defense sector this week," without further details.
