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Alternative facts on TV
The term "alternative facts" was coined by Kellyanne Conway, a senior White House aide in Donald Trump's administration, when she tried to justify a lie by then press secretary Sean Spicer, who claimed that the crowd assembled in Washington, DC for Trump's inauguration in 2017 "was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration" in person in the world (January 22, 2017).
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Ten worst fires destroyed 280,000 hectares in 20 years
The destructive force of wildfires in Greece since 2003 has been illustrated in a study by the National Observatory of Athens, which showed 10 of the most severe ones destroyed more than 280,000 hectares of vegetation.
Sunny Weather in Bulgaria, in the morning with Reduced Visibility
Today will be sunny. Visibility will be reduced in the morning hours in places in the lowlands and around water bodies. It will be calm in most areas, but by the evening a weak south-southeast wind will appear, mostly in Eastern Bulgaria.
Anger and the election of competent, principled politicians
Mati fire expert witness paints picture of chaos
Testifying for the 10th day, Dimitris Liotsios, the forensic expert witness who investigated the circumstances that turned the fire in East Attica in July 2018 into a tragedy that resulted in 104 deaths, referred again to the chaos and confusion regarding the deployment of airborne means to fight the blaze.
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Trump legal woes force another moment of choosing for GOP
From the moment he rode down the Trump Tower escalator to announce his first presidential campaign, a searing question has hung over the Republican Party: Is this the moment to break from Donald Trump?
In Trump case, NY grand jury appears near end of its work
A New York grand jury investigating Donald Trump over a hush money payment to a porn star appears poised to complete its work soon as law enforcement officials make preparations for possible unrest in the event of an indictment.
‘Floating toilets’ help lake-dwelling poor
Pointing to the murky waters of the Tonle Sap, Si Vorn fights back tears as she recalls her four-year-old daughter dying from diarrhea after playing in the polluted lake.
Her family of 12 is among 100,000 people living in floating houses on Cambodia's vast inland waterway, and while their village has 70 houses and a primary school, it has no sanitation system.
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‘Climate change leading to extreme weather events in Türkiye’
The climate changes caused by the decrease in water resources, pollution and destruction of nature are causing many extreme weather events, which have increased at record levels in the last eight years nationwide, according to meteorological reports.
The extreme weather events broke records in all years after 2015 and have been increasing since 2018 in Türkiye, reports say.
Quake damage in agriculture hits 24 bln liras
The deadly earthquakes that hit Türkiye's south on Feb. 6 also had a significant impact on agriculture, amounting to a total financial loss of 24 billion Turkish Liras ($1.3 billion), according to a report by the Presidential Strategy and Budget Directorate.
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