Mon 14 October 2024: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated on Sunday that due to North Korea’s arms and people transfers to Russian forces in Ukraine, his country’s defense ties with its allies would need to change. On Thursday, the South Korean claims that North Korea might have sent some military forces to support Russia […]
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Mon 14 October 2024: Kamala Harris is losing ground to Donald Trump with less than a month to go until the election for president of the United States, a series of polls suggest. Harris’s lead over Trump has narrowed or vanished outright as the race for the White House approaches the final stretch, according to […]
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Mon 14 October 2024: Low-income countries still poorer than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, report finds. The world’s 26 poorest countries are deeper in debt than at any time since 2006 and increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters and other shocks, the World Bank has said. The poorest economies are worse off today than they […]
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The Tomb of Christopher Columbus is located in the Seville Cathedral, Spain. Mon 14 October 2024: The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery. Several countries have argued over the origins and the final burial place of the […]
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Sun 13 October 2024: The Kremlin said on Saturday that Democratic Party presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s description of Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “murderous dictator” exposed how politicians in Washington sought to impose their views on the world. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov’s comment was the latest jab in exchanges revolving around the US presidential […]
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Sun 13 October 2024: Social media platform TikTok said it will slash hundreds of jobs, with a significant number of employees in Malaysia expected to be affected, as the company shifts to AI-assisted content moderation. TikTok, owned by China-based ByteDance, said Friday it would cut several hundred jobs around the world, without providing a breakdown […]
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Sat 12 October 2024: Job recruiters in today’s world use filtering systems powered by artificial intelligence (AI), allegedly “algorithmically discriminating” against people based on their race, gender, language and religion. Yeliz Bozkurt Gumrukcuoglu, a professor of private law at Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul, told Anadolu that tech giants like Meta, Google and Amazon have […]
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Sat 12 October 2024: The government of the United Kingdom (UK) on Thursday unveiled a new Employment Rights Bill, outlining reforms aimed at boosting economic growth and upgrading workers’ rights across the country. Presented to Parliament just before the Labour government marking its first 100 days in power, the bill is an attempt by the […]
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Fri 11 October 2024: Pope Francis on Friday met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Vatican to discuss the latest developments in Ukraine. The talks were “dedicated to the state of the war and the humanitarian situation in Ukraine, as well as the ways that could put an end to it, leading to a just […]
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Fri 11 October 2024: The volume of global merchandise trade is expected to increase by 2.7 percent in 2024, the World Trade Organization (WTO) said in an update of the Global Trade Outlook and Statistics released on Thursday. This prediction is slightly higher than the WTO’s earlier forecast of 2.6 percent made in April. According […]
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