World News in Brief: Haiti aid response, strikes across Lebanon’s Blue Line, UNEP welcomes Iran prisoner release, healthcare for the displaced

PNP DeskApril 8, 2024September 19, 202408 mins

Since early March, the World Food Programme (WFP) has reached more than 500,000 people, providing school meals, social protection and emergency activities nationwide. The agency has also served some 500,000 hot meals to over 76,000 internally displaced persons in 57 sites in the greater Port-au-Prince metropolitan area. Aid partners have also delivered nearly four million…

Ukraine: Civilians bear ‘unbearable’ toll amid ‘unrelenting’ attacks

World News in Brief: UN ‘committed’ to aid Ukraine, blue helmets exit northern Mali, Chad update

PNP DeskOctober 16, 2023September 17, 202406 mins

That’s according to Humanitarian Coordinator Denise Brown, who led a convoy at the weekend carrying aid for around 1,000 civilians to Chasiv Yar, just six kilometres from the frontline in the Donetsk region. The UN aid coordination office OCHA warned on Monday that civilians are facing “daily attacks” along frontline areas in the east and…

The rise in popularity of Twitter alternative ‘Blue Sky’

PNP DeskJuly 4, 2023September 14, 202403 mins

The most popular social networking app Twitter alternative Blue Sky has disabled new signups for new users after its popularity skyrocketed. According to the report, a day after Twitter introduced a limit on the number of tweets, the Blue Sky app was facing problems, halting new user sign-ups to fix it. Although the Blue Sky…

Countries must forge ‘Global Blue Deal’ to protect the ocean: UNCTAD

PNP DeskMay 8, 2023September 12, 202407 mins

That’s according to the UN Trade and Development body UNCTAD’s Trade and Environment Review 2023, published on Monday, which analyses the world’s $3-6 billion ocean economy, and assesses how human activity and multiple global crises have significantly impacted sectors like fishing, seafood, shipping and coastal tourism. The report, presented at the 3rd UN Trade Forum in Geneva, calls for…

Now Gmail has also introduced ‘Blue Tick’ account verification

PNP DeskMay 5, 2023September 12, 202403 mins

Like other apps, Google has also offered a verification blue mark. Photo: File San Francisco: Following in the footsteps of Meta and Tutor, Google has now started working on its BlueTick feature, offering its own account verification. The blue mark may appear on the Gmail account name or on the round icon. According to Google,…

Twitter users who left the world also got blue ticks again

PNP DeskApril 24, 2023September 12, 202402 mins

File photo Confusion over the weekend was compounded when the accounts of some high-profile figures who are no longer in the world got blue ticks again, according to reports on micro-blogging website Twitter. Many celebrities have mentioned in their tweets that they did not pay Twitter Blue’s monthly fee of $8 but still have their…

Twitter’s free ‘Blue Tick’ service ends

PNP DeskApril 21, 2023September 12, 202403 mins

File photo After the end of the free ‘blue tick’ service of the social media site Twitter, the phase of removing the ‘blue tick’ from the accounts of important personalities and other users around the world has started. According to foreign media, the ‘blue tick’ has disappeared from the Twitter account of former US President…

Elon Musk has announced the deadline to remove the ‘blue tick’ from Twitter accounts

PNP DeskApril 12, 2023September 11, 202403 mins

File photo Elon Musk, the CEO of social media site Twitter, has announced the deadline for removing ‘BlueTick’ from users’ accounts. On his Twitter account, Elon Musk wrote that the deadline to remove BlueTick is April 20. According to foreign media, Twitter users who have a verified account with a blue checkmark will have to…

Twitter charges additional ‘blue tick’ fees in Saudi Arabia

PNP DeskApril 4, 2023September 11, 202403 mins

File photo Social media site Twitter charged higher fees for blue ticks from Twitter users in Saudi Arabia than in other countries. According to Arab media, organizations in Saudi Arabia who want Blue Tick on their accounts will have to pay about $65 more than organizations in the United States. According to Twitter, the fee…

Twitter removed the blue tick of “The New York Times”.

PNP DeskApril 3, 2023September 11, 202402 mins

London: Twitter has removed the blue tick of the famous American newspaper New York Times for not paying the verification fee, Twitter has started implementing the policy announced from April 1. Elon Musk sarcastically tweeted that the real tragedy of the New York Times is that their propaganda is no longer palatable, not read at…