Wed 28 January 2026: A growing gender imbalance in births among Indian families living in the United Kingdom has raised concerns that unborn baby girls are being aborted due to a preference for sons. Official data analysed by the Office for National Statistics shows that between 2021 and 2025, around 118 boys were born for every 100 […]
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Wed 28 January 2026: Think your friends would be interested? Share this story! A new study published Tuesday by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) reveals the staggering human cost of the war, estimating that “nearly two million” military personnel have been killed, wounded, or gone missing. Russia‘s grinding invasion of Ukraine has […]
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Wed 28 January 2026: The trial against Meta and YouTube was scheduled to kick off with jury selection in California Superior Court. TikTok has agreed to settle a landmark lawsuit on social media addiction, according to one of the plaintiff’s lawyers, on the day the trial was due to start against two remaining companies. TikTok […]
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Wed 28 January 2026: Rwanda began the inter-state arbitration proceedings under the asylum partnership agreement in November. Rwanda has taken legal action against the United Kingdom’s refusal to disburse payments under a now-scrapped, controversial agreement for Kigali to receive deported asylum seekers, according to a Rwandan official and UK media reports. Rwanda launched arbitral proceedings […]
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Tue 27 January 2026: French lawmakers have approved a bill that would ban social media use for children under the age of 15, a move championed by President Emmanuel Macron as a way to protect minors. The bill was adopted by the lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, by a vote of 130 to […]
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Tue 27 January 2026: Low taxes and easy availability of sugary drinks and alcoholic spirits remain a politically convenient decision, shifting the true cost of consumption onto overstretched hospitals and grieving families. Samuel Omondi, a 34-year-old taxi driver in Nairobi, used to down two or three bottles of sugary soda during each gruelling 12-hour shift […]
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Tue 27 January 2026: During the protests that ripped through Iran in January, one person who gained attention was Reza Pahlavi. Pahlavi, who lives in a suburb of Washington, D.C., is the son of the late shah of Iran, who ruthlessly ruled the country before being deposed during the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Pahlavi emerged during the recent upheaval as a […]
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Mon 26 January 2026: A government review has raised concerns over contract terms that shift extra costs onto Bangladesh, recommending renegotiation of power imports to curb fiscal losses. An Adani Power coal-fired plant that exports electricity passes on Indian corporate taxes to Bangladesh and charges more than market rates, according to a recent report from […]
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Mon 26 January 2026: Artificial intelligence resulted in 8% net job losses in the UK over the past 12 months, the highest rate among other leading economies, according to a new study shared with Bloomberg. Research by the investment bank Morgan Stanley said the UK is losing more jobs than it is creating due to AI effect, and is […]
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Mon 26 January 2026: Authorities say the mass graves are not limited to Khartoum alone but extend to Wad Madani and large areas of central Sudan Two mass graves containing the remains of thousands of people were recently found in Khartoum, exposing a dark chapter in Sudan’s ongoing conflict between the army and the paramilitary […]
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