Stricter lockdown rules have been introduced in Portugal amid surging coronavirus cases, with the pandemic setting grim records there and across Europe.
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“Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
Helen Keller
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Student refusing to cover nose with mask booted from university exams in Japan
The test-taker in Tokyo disobeyed exam supervisors’ instructions to cover their nose, despite being told to do so seven times in total.
DuckDuckGo Surpasses 100 Million Daily Search Queries For the First Time
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Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo reached a major milestone in its 12-year-old history last week when it recorded on Monday its first-ever day with more than 100 million user search queries. From a report: The achievement comes after a period of sustained growth the company has been seeing for the past two years, and especially since August 2020, when the search engine began seeing more than 2 billion search queries a month on a regular basis. The numbers are small in comparison to Google’s 5 billion daily search queries but it’s a positive sign that users are looking for alternatives. DuckDuckGo’s popularity comes after the search engine has expanded beyond its own site and now currently offers mobile apps for Android and iOS, but also a dedicated Chrome extension. More than 4 million users installed these apps and extension, the company said in a tweet in September 2020.
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Alexey Navalny remanded in custody for 30 days pending trial
Following a hearing inside a police station in the town of Khimki, near Moscow, a judge has placed Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny under arrest for 30 days pending trial. Navalny, who stands accused of violating the terms of his probation in the Yves Rocher case, will remain in custody until February 15.
Foxconn gets green light for $270M factory in Vietnam
Foxconn is set to build a new factory to produce tablets and computers in Vietnam, which could be part of Apple’s plan to widen its iPad and MacBook production lines outside of China.
Set to be located in the northern province of Bac Giang, the government said it is expected the facility will produce eight million units of products per year, with it chiefly made up of notebooks and tablets. Since Foxconn is a major assembly partner for Apple, it is possible some of this production could be for iPads and MacBooks.In November, it was claimed Apple asked Foxconn to move some of its iPad and MacBook production out from China to Vietnam, in a bid to diversify production. The US-China trade war was a pressure point on the company, forcing it to come up with ways to minimize the impact of inter-continental political maneuvers.
Vacina: questão humanitária — Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!
Das muitas leituras que podemos fazer a respeito desse momento de crise que estamos vivendo, existe duas questões fundamentais que podemos constatar. Primeira, a vacina é uma necessidade para o bem-estar da população. E segundo, temos que vencer todas as adversidades desse cenário complexo, onde se evolui muito na discussão, mas não se chegava a […]
Vacina: questão humanitária — Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!
RIP – Father Francisco Valdovinos, priest of Mecca church, dies of COVID-19
Father Francisco Valdovinos, the Catholic priest of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Mecca, has died of COVID-19. He was 58. The Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity announced his death on Facebook Sunday night. Over nearly three decades, Valdovinos served on behalf of the religious order in Puerto Rico and Costa Rica, as well as California and Tennessee.
Source: Father Francisco Valdovinos, priest of Mecca church, dies of COVID-19
FBI agents raided home in Stone Oak, arrest made | WOAI – (Tik Tok users in San Antonio reported him to FBI)
SAN ANTONIO – The FBI raided a home in the Stone Oak area and made an arrest on Sunday.
Agents were called out to a home which is owned by Matthew Mazzocco, who was called out on Tik Tok last week after the riot at the U.S. Capitol.
According to MySA.com, users on Tik Tok tied him to being at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday and Twitter users identified Mazzocco in a video recorded inside the Capitol.
Neighbors say he is a local loan officer.
Source: FBI agents raided home in Stone Oak, arrest made | WOAI
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