Mon 09 December 2024: Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has announced that the United States will provide nearly $1bn in additional military aid to war-torn Ukraine, as it attempts to fend off an ongoing Russian invasion. In unveiling the aid package on Saturday, Austin offered some pointed remarks aimed at the incoming administration of US […]
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Sat 07 December 2024: House prices in the UK increased by 4.8% at an annualized pace in November, the fastest rate of growth in two years, according to Halifax data on Friday. On a monthly basis, house prices rose 1.3% in November, marking the largest monthly rise since June 2022. The average property price rose […]
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Sta 07 December 2024: The intelligence partners of the “Five Eyes” have warned about the radicalisation of young people online, the news agency Reuters reported on Thursday (Dec 5) citing a research paper from the alliance. The Five Eyes, which includes the United States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, said in the paper that […]
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Fri 06 December 2024: With around 1.1 billion tourists travelled internationally in the first nine months of 2024, international tourism has reached 98 percent of the figures prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, according to the United Nations tourism agency (UN Tourism). In its Tourism Barometer report issued on Wednesday, the […]
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Fri 06 December 2024: More than half of British employers plan to raise their prices and cut jobs in response to the new government’s first budget, according to a survey published by the Bank of England on Thursday. Almost 60% of firms expected to lower their profit margins to cope with an increase in social […]
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Fri 06 December 2024: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered new insights into the Spiderweb protocluster, a massive “city of galaxies” forming 10 billion light years from Earth, European Space Agency (ESA) reported on Wednesday. By observing the protocluster as it appeared just 4 billion years after the Big Bang, astronomers identified previously […]
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Fri 06 December 2024: The Bahamas on Thursday said it had rejected a proposal from the incoming Trump administration to take in deported migrants, as the next US president seeks to follow up on pledges to slash immigration. Donald Trump’s team has drawn up a list of countries to which it wants to deport migrants […]
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Thu 05 December 2024: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that Honda has announced a recall involving approximately 205,760 SUVs in the United States due to concerns of potential fuel leak. Specifically, Honda Passport and Pilot models manufactured between 2023 and 2025 are part of the recall. The reason for this is that […]
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Thu 05 December 2024: United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Keir Starmer unveiled “a plan for change” on Thursday as his Labour government seeks to regain public trust amid declining approval ratings. Delivering a major speech in Buckinghamshire, Starmer outlined six “milestones” the government aims to achieve, including building 1.5 million homes, revitalizing the National Health […]
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Thu 05 December 2024: More than three-quarters of US adults say that news organizations are biased when presenting news on social and political issues, according to a new survey. The survey from the Pew Research Center released Tuesday found that 77 percent of surveyed Americans believe media organizations are biased. This is a slight decrease […]
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