Wed 19 March 2025: Audi, a brand of German automaker Volkswagen Group, announced Monday that it will lay off 7,500 jobs in Germany in areas such as management and development until 2029, according to a press release by the firm. “The economic conditions are becoming increasingly tougher, competitive pressure and political uncertainties are presenting the […]
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Wed 19 March 2025: Staff at several major National Health Service (NHS) hospitals in London have been prohibited from wearing pro-Palestinian symbols following complaints that they were “distressing and intimidating to vulnerable patients.” Barts Health NHS Trust confirmed the policy after a pro-Israel lobby group reported increasing concerns from Jewish patients who felt uncomfortable seeing […]
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Wed 19 March 2025: The world’s biggest video sharing platform, YouTube, has just turned 20. It was started inauspiciously in February 2005 by former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim – with a 19-second video of Karim exploring San Diego Zoo. That year, YouTube’s disruption of the media timeline was minimal enough for there to be no […]
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Democratic Republic of the Congo President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, meet with Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Doha, Qatar Wed 19 March 2025: The three countries call for ‘immediate and unconditional ceasefire’ in eastern DRC. Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwandan […]
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Wed 19 March 2025: Shutdown of US-funded news outlets ends more than 80 years of uncensored news broadcasts in China. Taipei, Taiwan – Chinese state media and pro-China commentators have welcomed the de facto shutting down of Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia (RFA) following the latest budget cuts by the administration of United States President […]
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Wed 19 March 2025: Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) is buying the gaming division of developer Niantic, whose titles include mobile game Pokémon Go, for $3.5 billion. This is the latest purchase for the kingdom, which in the past few years has made significant strides in becoming a global hub for esports and gaming, […]
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Wed 19 March 2025: India, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan were four of the five top arms importers globally between 2020 and 2024, a report released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) earlier this month has shown. Ukraine was the world’s largest importer of major weapons over the past five years, accounting for […]
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Wed 19 March 2025: The US National Archives released around 80,000 pages of declassified records late Tuesday related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) following an executive order by President Donald Trump. The documents, which have been uploaded to a portal maintained by the National Archives, are part of a long-awaited […]
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Tue 18 March 2025: According to a new study, the prehistoric giant predator, megalodon, may have been 9 meters longer than previously estimated. Previously believed to be about 15 meters long, the giant shark was actually found to have reached up to 24 meters. The researchers conducting the study stated that the megalodon had a thinner […]
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Tue 18 March 2025: The White House said Tuesday that an ongoing call between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is “going well” as the two nations seek to hammer out a deal to pause the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine for at least 30 days, and improve bilateral relations. The highly-anticipated call […]
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