Wed 30 July 2025: US coffee chain Starbucks’ global comparable store sales decreased a larger-than-expected 2% year-on-year in the April-June quarter, according to the firm’s financial results released Tuesday. Comparable store sales in North America also fell by 2%. Starbucks’ international comparable store sales were flat in the same period, while sales in China increased […]
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Wed 30 July 2025: Tsunami waves have hit parts of Russia, Japan and the United States after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s eastern Kamchatka Peninsula. The quake struck 136km (84 miles) east of the coastal city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia’s far east, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Japan’s meteorological agency issued […]
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Wed 30 July 2025: Trump says he cut off his relationship with Epstein because the sex offender poached workers from his Florida resort. United States President Donald Trump has said that he ended his relationship with disgraced financier and convicted sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein because he “stole” young female workers from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Speaking to reporters […]
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Wed 30 July 2025: Only 32 percent of survey respondents said they approve of Israel’s conduct in Gaza, down 10 points from last year. Washington, DC – A new poll from the research firm Gallup suggests that only 32 percent of Americans approve of Israel’s military action in Gaza, a 10-point drop from September 2024, as […]
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Wed 30 July 2025: US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he did not plan to attend the G20 summit in South Africa, rehashing debunked claims of white citizens being systematically persecuted and killed in the country. Asked aboard Air Force One if he planned to attend the leaders’ summit in November, Trump said: “No, […]
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Tue 29 July 2025: Global hunger fell in 2024 for a third straight year, but conflict and climate shocks deepened crises in Africa and the Middle East. Global hunger levels declined for a third consecutive year in 2024, according to a new United Nations report, as better access to food in South America and India […]
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Tue 29 July 2025: At the unveiling of a new portrait of King Charles this week, humanoid artist Ai-Da shared the inspiration behind the layered and intricate piece, while emphasising it had no intention of “replacing” human creators. Designed to closely resemble a human woman, Ai-Da is among the world’s most advanced robots, featuring a […]
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Tue 29 July 2025: North Korea on Tuesday asked the US to accept its status as a nuclear weapons state before any new summit with President Donald Trump, state news agency KCNA reported. In a statement, Kim Yo Jong, the North Korean leader’s sister and vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, […]
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Tue 29 July 2025: The confirmed number of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks since the start of the war on Gaza has risen to at least 60,034, according to the Health Ministry in the besieged and bombarded territory. In its latest daily update, the ministry said the bodies of 113 Palestinians, including one killed in […]
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Tue 29 July 2025: In Eswatini, the arrival of five men deported from the United States under Washington’s anti-immigrant measures has sparked a rare wave of public protest. The five, nationals of Vietnam, Laos, Yemen, Cuba and Jamaica, were flown to Eswatini’s administrative capital of Mbabane on July 16 on a US military plane and […]
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