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BBCBillionaire Elon Musk has hailed Twitter as a bastion for freedom of expression ever since he acquired the social media site two years ago. But over the course of 2024, X, as it is now called, has evolved from what felt like a communal town square into a polarised hub where views and posts seem even more controversial. Certain profiles that have shared misleading takes on politics and the news, some of which have been accused of triggering hate, have recently shot to prominence.All of this matters because X might not have as many users as some other major social…
Songs by Supriya / Courtesy of Prime VideoWaack Girls is a dance drama centered around six womenA woman dances in the spotlight, the glittering tassels of her dress quivering and swaying to the rhythm of her movements.But it is his arms that catch the light; they undulate, spin and whip the air at breathtaking speed, almost like the blades of a fan.These are the opening visuals for a web series recently released on Amazon Prime Video called Waack Girls, a drama centered on six women who learn a new dance form to become their town's first all-female waacking group.Few people…
Two people competing in Australia's annual Sydney-Hobart yacht race have died in separate incidents, police say.Both crew members died in separate incidents after being struck by a boom – the large pole attached horizontally to the bottom of a sail. Event organizers said the incidents occurred on the Flying Fish Arctos and Bowline.The first boats are expected to arrive in the Tasmanian town of Hobart later Friday or early Saturday. Many have already abandoned due to bad weather. New South Wales (NSW) Police said the first incident was reported to officers shortly before midnight local time (12:50 GMT) on Thursday…
Estonia's telecommunications operator reported on Thursday that data transmission between Estonia and Finland had been disrupted. The failure is said to have affected four different submarine cables that run through the Gulf of Finland. The cause of the outage is unknown, and Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications spokeswoman Laura Laster said the outage did not affect end users. Disruption of submarine cable in the Gulf of Finland. 4-strand interference The relevant authorities were informed of the outage on Wednesday, and on that day power transmission via the Estonian-Finnish electricity bus EstLink 2 was also interrupted, with the Finnish…
Three people were killed and at least four were injured in a bus accident near Hadsel, Norway. The car slipped and fell from the shore into the frozen water. Police said the road conditions at the time of the accident were very difficult. The accident happened on Thursday afternoon on the E10 near Hadsel in the Lofoten Islands. According to witnesses, the driver failed to control the vehicle, which broke the protective barrier, and as a result, the bus plunged into the lake and partially drowned. Police say the road conditions at the time of the accident were terrible. A…
Three people were killed and at least four others were seriously injured in an accident involving a bus carrying 58 passengers on Thursday afternoon. The car skidded down an embankment and into icy water. The incident occurred on the E10 road near Hadsel in the Lofoten Islands. Witnesses said the driver failed to maintain control of the vehicle, destroying the protective barrier and causing the bus to fall into the lake and partially sink. According to a police statement, road conditions at the time of the accident were dire. The snowstorm limited visibility, covered roads with ice and brought wind…
Israel's flag carrier El Al said it suspended all flights from Tel Aviv to Moscow due to “changes in Russian airspace”. In a statement, the airline said it would “reassess the situation” within a week. This decision is related to the reports about the shooting down of the plane in Kazakhstan by a Russian missile. The decision of the Israeli airline is the result of preliminary assessments that the plane of the Azerbaijan airline, which crashed yesterday in Kazakhstan, was shot down by the Russian air defense system.During the next assessment, El Al Israel Airlines will decide whether the route…
New facts about the plane crash in Kazakhstan. In some places, the plane's fuselage has holes like a chest, and this can be clearly seen in the photos. Could such damage be caused by the birds whose flock hit the plane according to the first information of the media? Experts believe that this damage was caused by anti-aircraft weapons.Before the plane of the Azerbaijan airline company fell to the ground, it was allegedly shot down by the Russian army. The traces on the side of the plane – according to Euronews with reference to the sources of the Azerbaijani government,…
Residents of the following towns were ordered to evacuate due to the fire that has been burning in the Grampians National Park in Australia for more than a week. According to the fire service, the flames consumed about 80 thousand hectares or almost a third of the park. It is already too late for people in some neighborhoods to evacuate.The fire broke out in the Grampians National Park in Victoria about two weeks ago. So far, the fire has covered almost 80 thousand hectares of green area, which is about a third of the entire area of the park. On…
During Thursday's Israeli airstrike on Sana'a airport, missiles landed “meters” from the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Yemen. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on social networks that he and his colleagues are safe. Houthi rebels said on Thursday that Israel had fired on targets in Sana'a and the Yemeni port of Hodeidah. Reuters, in turn, noted that the Houthis have been shelling Israel in recent days. The Israeli army said that in addition to the military infrastructure of the Houthis in Sana'a and Hodeidah, it also attacked targets in ports and other energy facilities. In recent days, the…