As 2021 begins, most of Turkey is experiencing severe drought. Numerous reservoirs around Istanbul—the country's most populous city (15 million)—have reached their lowest water storage levels in 15 years. Crop production could be…
The New York Times
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Audra D. S. Burch
– Jan 18, 12:00 AM
He lived and died in a time of tumult and a racial awakening, so perhaps it is no surprise that the 35th national celebration of the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday has particular resonance amid one of the most…
Britain's biggest police force will start recording the ethnicity of people stopped in their cars in a move aimed at stopping the alleged targeting of people for “driving while black”. It follows a spate of cases last year when people…
TechCrunch
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Darrell Etherington
– Jan 18, 1:02 PM
Virgin Orbit scored a major success on Sunday, with a test flight that not only achieved its goals of reaching space and orbit, but also of delivering payloads on board for NASA, marking its first commercial mission, too. The launch was a success…
European Federation of Journalists
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https://europeanjournalists.org/wp-content/themes/efj/humans.txt
– Jan 19
In these first 15 days of 2021, the Turkish Journalists Union (TGS) already recorded five physical attacks against journalists in Turkey. The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) together…