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The Walt Disney Company has announced it is taking steps to “pause all other businesses in Russia” following the invasion of Ukraine. © PA Archive DisneyIt is the latest in a long line of companies to suspend its business activity in the country as the conflict entered its 15th day. Earlier this week, some of the world’s biggest brands including McDonalds, Apple and Coca-Cola announced similar decisions to stop its work in the country due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Disney’s announcement comes one week after the company delayed the theatrical release of its films in Russia in response to the ongoing…

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US actor Jussie Smollett has been sentenced to 150 days in jail after a jury found he had lied to police about being the victim of a hate crime. © Getty Images Smollet, seen here in March 2019, is known for his role in the TV series EmpireThe former Empire star, 39, was found guilty in December of five charges of felony disorderly conduct after making false reports about the hoax attack. The sentence also includes 30 months of probation and $145,000 (£110,780) in restitution and fines. Following the sentence, Smollet said: “I did not do it!”. The trial stemmed from…

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People in Japan’s northeast offered prayers and carried out searches for the missing on Friday, 11 years after an earthquake and tsunami left 18,500 people dead or unaccounted for and triggered a devastating nuclear meltdown in Fukushima. © STR In the Tohoku region devastated by the tsunami, some met in the early morning along the coast to offer prayers© Charly TRIBALLEAU People take part in silent prayers in memory of earthquake and tsunami victims 11 years after the nuclear meltdown in FukushimaA minute’s silence was held at 2:46 pm (0546 GMT), the moment a 9.0-magnitude quake — among the strongest ever recorded…

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By Elaine Lies and Hyonhee Shin © Reuters/KIM KYUNG-HOON FILE PHOTO: Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a news conference in Tokyo TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol said they had agreed on Friday to ramp up three-way ties with the United States in responding to North Korea’s evolving military threat. Kishida told reporters after a phone call with Yoon the two agreed to stay in close contact over North Korea and shared the view it would be good to meet as soon as possible. North Korea recently used what would be its…

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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Warsaw’s mayor is appealing for international help as the city becomes overwhelmed by refugees, with more than a tenth of all those fleeing the war in Ukraine arriving in the Polish capital. © Provided by Associated Press Ukrainian refugees wait at Przemysl train station, southeastern Poland, on Friday, March 11, 2022. Thousands of people have been killed and more than 2.3 million have fled the country since Russian troops crossed into Ukraine on Feb. 24. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)Some seek to wait out the war or settle in the city, while others merely use Warsaw as a transit…

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Russia has moved to block Instagram after its parent company, Meta, said it would allow calls for violence against Vladimir Putin and Russian soldiers involved in the invasion of Ukraine to appear on the social media platform. © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Chesnot/GettyRussian prosecutors demanded that access to Instagram be blocked on Friday after media reports of the relaxation of its policies on hate speech related to the war.Russia’s general prosecutor’s office said in a statement it had moved to recognise Meta as an “extremist organisation and ban its activities on the territory of Russia”, claiming the platform had…

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Earth’s interior is not a uniform stack of layers. Deep in its thick middle layer lie two colossal blobs of thermo-chemical material. To this day, scientists still don’t know where both of these colossal structures came from or why they have such different heights, but a new set of geodynamic models has landed on a possible answer to the latter mystery. Representational ImageThese hidden reservoirs are located on opposite sides of the world, and judging from the deep propagation of seismic waves, the blob under the African continent is more than twice as high as the one under the Pacific ocean. After…

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Dozens of companies have posted job ads for tech roles on a website called Remote Ukraine that’s been set up to help firms around the world hire Ukrainians. A surprisingly large amount of tech that enables our every day lives is built by engineers and software developers in Ukraine. WhatsApp, Grammarly, Gitlab and Solana were all founded or co-founded by Ukrainians, while Google, Samsung and Amazon all have research and development centers in the country. Companies are lining up to try to hire coders who have been caught up in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. © Provided by CNBC Male and female…

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Negotiations in Vienna aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal were called off indefinitely on Friday after Russia upended the talks by raising objections to Moscow’s participation while under the new U.S. sanctions imposed in punishment for its invasion of Ukraine. © Stephanie Lecocq/AP European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.The European Union’s foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell announced the decision to “pause” the talks in a tweet, citing “external factors” for the decision to break off the talks. Negotiators for the seven countries involved have spent most of the past year huddled in Vienna 2015 trying to find ways to…

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A drone that is likely to have been used in the fighting within Ukraine has crashed in Croatia after possibly traveling over multiple NATO countries. © AP/Darko Bandic Police inspect site of a drone crash in Zagreb, Croatia, FridayThe drone is predicted by experts to be a Soviet-era Tu-141 “Strizh” reconnaissance drone, with the Croatian government saying it flew through Croatia, Hungary and possibly Romania, The Associated Press reported. The “pilotless military aircraft” crashed outside Croatia’s capital city of Zagreb on Thursday after it ran out of fuel, Croatian officials said. The drone entered Croatia at a speed of 430 miles per hour and…

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