Tue 29 October 2024: Hundreds of Syrians in the Netherlands have protested outside The Hague against the Dutch government’s plan to potentially declare parts of Syria under Bashar Al-Assad’s regime as “safe”. Under a deal agreed by the Dutch government’s coalition parties last week, Amsterdam is set to abolish permanent residency status for new refugees […]
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Tue 29 October 2024: North Korea sent around 10,000 troops to eastern Russia and to fight in Ukraine within “the next several weeks,” the Pentagon said Monday. “We have seen reports from over the weekend indicating that DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) soldiers have started arriving in western Russia. “We believe that the DPRK […]
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Tue 29 October 2024: Far-right British Islamophobic activist, Tommy Robinson, on Monday began serving an 18-month sentence for contempt of court by repeating libellous claims against a Syrian refugee, local media reported, Anadolu Agency reports. Robinson, 41, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was accused of “thumbing his nose at the court” in front of millions of […]
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Mon 28 October 2024: A Catholic priest in Germany was sentenced to four years in prison on Monday for sexual contact with minors via the internet. The Fulda regional court found the 43-year-old priest guilty of engaging in sexual online chats with minors between September 2021 and July 2022. The priest was accused of contacting […]
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Mon 28 October 2024: Former US President Donald Trump holds a narrow national lead of 0.1%, and remains on top in seven key battleground states by an average of 0.9% with just one week to go before Americans elect the 47th president of the United States. An average of polling compiled by the RealClearPolitics website shows […]
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Mon 28 October 2024: North Korea helping Russia in Ukraine is “very dangerous,” U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday as NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte confirmed that North Korean troops are in Russia and that military units have been deployed to a border region. Putin’s ‘desperation’ NATO chief Mark Rutte on Monday decried the […]
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Sun 27 October 2024: The birth rate in Germany has fallen sharply from 1.58 children per woman in 2021 to 1.35 this year, according to a report published Wednesday by the ifo Institute for Economic Research. The COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the resulting loss of real income due to high inflation “have led […]
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Sun 27 October 2024: The governing Georgian Dream party is leading the crucial parliamentary elections, according to early results announced by the electoral body, but the pro-Western opposition groups are claiming victory, setting the stage for confrontation over the future of the former Soviet republic. Early official results with 70 percent of precincts counted, showed the governing […]
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Sun 27 October 2024: Shoplifting offences reported by police in England and Wales have risen to a fresh 20-year high, according to official figures, as retailers continue to warn about violence against shop workers. A total of 469,788 offences were logged by police forces in the year to June 2024, a 29% increase compared with the 365,173 […]
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Sat 26 October 2024: Fall for me as a teenager meant football games, homecoming dresses – and haunted houses. My friends organized group trips to the local fairground, where barn sheds were turned into halls of horror, and masked men nipped at our ankles with (chainless) chain saws as we waited in line, anticipating deeper […]
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