Thu 18 January 2024: “Tax the rich” remained one of the most popular slogans in recent years to bridge the gap between the rich and poor, as over the years, people have shown frustration over very wealthy people and corporations not paying their fair share of taxes. The same call was made on Wednesday (Jan […]
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Fri 12 January 2024: Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig have unearthed fascinating evidence that the brain undergoes important changes in wiring when we embark on the journey of learning a new language in adulthood. They organized a large intensive German learning program for Syrian refugees. They studied their […]
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Fri 29 December 2023: Global public debt climbed by 5.4% in 2023 to $97 trillion, with the US being the most indebted country with approximately $33 trillion of public debt, according to data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Many governments around the world introduced large-scale fiscal stimulus programs to protect the labor market and […]
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Wed 13 December 2023: The three-day Global Refugee Forum 2023 (GRF) kicked off here on Wednesday, with some 4,000 delegates from 165 countries expected to attend the forum. The delegates, including refugee leaders, heads of state, business leaders, among others, are to address the urgent challenges and long-term solutions needed for the current more than […]
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Sat 16 September 2023: Nuclear warheads in usable stockpiles are increasing, the Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor warned Monday, along with its partner, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. The monitor said that nine nuclear-armed states had a combined arsenal of 12,705 nuclear warheads at the start of 2022. An estimated 9,440 warheads – with […]
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Wed 29 August 2023: Hundreds of thousands of people are being forcibly engaged by organised criminal gangs into online criminality in Southeast Asia – from romance-investment scams and crypto fraud to illegal gambling – a report issued today by the UN Human Rights Office shows. Victims face a range of serious violations and abuses, including threats to […]
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Tue 22 August 2023: The release of the advanced chatbot ChatGPT in 2022 got everyone talking about artificial intelligence (AI). Its sophisticated capabilities amplified concerns about AI becoming so advanced that soon we would not be able to control it. This even led some experts and industry leaders to warn that the technology could lead to human extinction. […]
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Wed 19 July 2023: Ongoing forest fires in Canada have recently claimed the life of a 9-year-old child who had suffered an asthma attack during the crisis. According to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre’s website, there are more than 900 wildfires raging across the country at the moment. Italy’s regional meteorological agency reported that […]
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Tue 18 July 2023: The new head of the World Bank said Tuesday that growing divides between rich and poor nations risked deepening poverty in the developing world, at a meeting of G20 finance ministers in India. Many countries are still recovering from the double blow of the coronavirus pandemic and fallout from Russia’s war […]
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Sat 15 July 2023: Two children are drown on average per day while trying to cross Central Mediterranean due to the “absence of safe and legal routes,” the UN Children’s Agency, UNICEF, said on Friday. The number of children that have lost their lives while attempting to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe has doubled […]
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