Sun 23 March 2025: After five weeks in hospital with pneumonia, the Pope will be discharged from hospital today to prepare for two months of rest at the Vatican. Before he begins his recovery, he is expected to offer a blessing from the window of his hospital room. Followers expecting to see the Pope in […]
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Sun 23 March 2025: Canada is launching an ad campaign Friday in 12 US states to counter American tariffs, according to Foreign Minister Melanie Joly. “We’ve already put $60 billion worth of counter-tariffs on American goods,” Joly said in an interview with CNN. Noting that the tariffs “are a tax on hardworking Americans,” she argued […]
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Sun 23 March 2025: China’s marriage rate is in steep decline. There were 6.1 million marriage registrations nationwide in 2024, down from 7.7 million the previous year. This decline has prompted Chen Songxi, a Chinese national political adviser, to propose lowering the legal marriage age from 22 to 18. The drop in China’s marriage rate has been driven […]
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Sun 23 March 2025: The removal of the bounty comes days after Afghan group releases US citizen. The United States has lifted a $10m reward for information leading to the arrest of a major Taliban leader, Sirajuddin Haqqani, an Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs spokesperson says. Despite the announcement on Saturday, the FBI still lists […]
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Sat 22 March 2025: The comments by US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff on Gaza and the now-shattered ceasefire in an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson. Witkoff’s “bridge” plan, presented last week, aims to extend the Gaza ceasefire into April, beyond Ramadan and Passover, to allow time for negotiations on a permanent cessation of […]
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Sat 22 March 2025: When OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2022, it rapidly became one of the world’s most visited websites and, upon its eventual release in the app store, the most downloaded app. Since then, nearly every company has been racing to integrate Generative AI into their products—whether as standalone applications, embedded features, or even standalone […]
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Sat 22 March 2025: An eruption by Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano, located in the southeastern part of Flores Island, spewed ash clouds more than 8km (5 miles) into the air, disrupting flights and raising emergency warnings to the highest level for residents and tourists. Indonesia’s Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation warned locals and […]
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Sat 22 March 2025: US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff has suggested Hamas could remain in Gaza for a short period if it agreed to disarm. But ultimately, he added, Gaza cannot be run by a “terrorist organisation.” The comments came in a wide-ranging interview that was broadcast late Friday on the […]
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Sat 22 March 2025: At least 8,938 people lost their lives on migration routes in 2024, making it the deadliest year on record, according to new data from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) released on Friday. The toll surpasses the previous record of 8,747 deaths in 2023, continuing a five-year trend of increasing fatalities, […]
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Sat 22 March 2025: US President Donald Trump has ordered the revocation of security clearances of several high-profile political rivals, including former Vice President Kamala Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In a late-night memo on Friday, Trump directed all federal agencies to immediately strip access to classified information for over a dozen […]
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