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26 January 2025, 08:15
Preview Prosecutors have decided not to charge rocker Marilyn Manson with sexual assault
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26 January 2025, 08:15
Preview Anish Sarkar, who turns four on Sunday, plays chess eight hours a day as he is now on the journey to becoming a grandmaster
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26 January 2025, 08:15
Preview US President Donald Trump has said America could gain new territories soon
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26 January 2025, 08:15
Preview US President Donald Trump has reportedly reversed the Biden-era ban on supplying Israel with bunker-busting bombs
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26 January 2025, 08:15
Preview Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said Ukraine will never join NATO and will face major challenges with its EU membership bid
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26 January 2025, 08:15
Preview The CIA now assesses “with low confidence” that Covid-19 more likely originated from a lab leak
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26 January 2025, 08:15
Preview Polling stations have opened in Belarus for the presidential election
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26 January 2025, 08:15
Preview US President Donald Trump has confirmed that he has frozen foreign aid
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26 January 2025, 08:15

Jan 24 (IPS) - CIVICUS speaks with Olivia Sohr about the challenges of disinformation and the consequences of the closure of Meta’s fact-checking programme in the USA. Olivia is the Director of Impact and New Initiatives at Chequeado, an Argentine civil society organisation working since 2010 to improve the quality of public debate through fact-checking, combating disinformation, promoting access to information and open data.

Read the full story, “‘The Closure of Meta’s US Fact-Checking Programme Is a Major Setback in the Fight Against Disinformation’”, on globalissues.org

26 January 2025, 08:15

NEW YORK & NAIROBI, Jan 24 (IPS) - A report released today on the International Day of Education sounds alarm as the number of school-aged children in crisis worldwide requiring urgent support to access quality education reaches a staggering 234 million—an estimated increase of 35 million over the past three years fueled by intensifying armed conflict, forced displacements, more frequent and severe weather and climatic events, and other crises.

Read the full story, “Report Exposes Silent Global Emergency as More Crises-Affected Children Need Urgent Education Support”, on globalissues.org