Tue 23 July 2024: U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned on Tuesday following intense criticism of the agency’s failure to prevent an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally, as reported by various media outlets. The Secret Service has not yet responded to requests for comment. Security Lapse at Campaign […]
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Mon 22 July 2024: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would risk “political suicide” should he give territorial concessions to Russia, Kiev’s mayor has said. “How can we explain to the country that we need to give up pieces of our territory that cost the lives of thousands of our fighting heroes? Whatever move he makes, our […]
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Mon 22 July 2024: The Council of the European Union adopted a regulation on Monday, removing the visa exclusion previously applied to holders of Serbian passports issued in Kosovo by the Serbian Coordination Directorate. This regulation will come into effect after its publication in the EU Official Journal. Ethnic Serbs Gain Visa-Free Travel to EU […]
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Mon 22 July 2024: The number of companies in England and Wales going bust jumped to the highest in over a year in June, as many succumbed to the pressure of high interest rates. There were 2,361 company failures, 17% more than in the same month a year earlier, the government’s Insolvency Service said on […]
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Mon 22 July 2024: Shortly after U.S. President Joe Biden announced he would not run for a second term, his Republican opponent, Donald Trump, remarked that “crooked Biden wasn’t fit to run” for president and that Vice President Kamala Harris will be “easier to defeat” in November’s election. “All those around him, including his Doctor […]
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Sun 21 July 2024: United States President Joe Biden says in a letter on X he is stepping down as a candidate in the 2024 election, endorses Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee. Dozens of congressional Democrats have publicly urged the 81-year-old to step aside after his shaky debate performance last month against Republican challenger Donald Trump, 78. My […]
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Sun 21 July 2024: Russia said on Sunday that it prevented a pair of US strategic bombers from crossing its border. A statement by the Russian Defense Ministry said the country’s “means of airspace control” detected a group of air targets over the Barents Sea as they were approaching the border. The statement said Russian […]
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Sun 21 July 2024: Doctors at the Verdi Cevallos Hospital in the city of Portoviejo, located in the tropical zone of Ecuador, removed a giant ball of hair from the stomach of a 24-year-old woman , in a surgical intervention, which was “successful.” This was reported by the Hospital on Wednesday on its social media account X, in […]
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Sun 21 July 2024: For several months now, Dana Alshaer and hundreds of others at a top Australian university have been raising their voices for Palestinians suffering through Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, Anadolu Agency reports. Alshaer is one of the founders and main organisers of UniMelb for Palestine, a collective of students, staff and alumni of […]
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Sat 20 July 2024: A global tech outage that was related to a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft devices, Microsoft said in a blog on Saturday. “We currently estimate that CrowdStrike’s update affected 8.5 million Windows devices, or less than one percent of all Windows machines,” it said in the […]
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