Sat 29 June 2024: President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia should resume producing midrange missiles, previously banned under the now-defunct INF Treaty, amid rising tensions with the United States. This follows Moscow’s accusation that Washington supplied Ukraine with ATACMS missiles used in a recent attack on Crimea, killing four. Russia has vowed a strong response […]
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Fri 28 June 2024: Support for Macron dropped 6 points to 36%, the worst showing since March, according to Toluna-Harris Interactive poll for LCI TV published on Friday, Bloomberg reported. Separate polls are putting National Rally on course to be the biggest group in the lower house of parliament, with Bloomberg’s poll of polls projecting […]
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Fri 28 June 2024: In their first debate since the 2020 election, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump exchanged sharp barbs on a range of issues including global conflicts, immigration, and US democracy. Held at CNN’s studios in Atlanta, Georgia, the debate took place unusually early in the election cycle, before either candidate […]
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Fri 28 June 2024: An original watercolor illustration for the first edition of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone sold for a record $1.9 million at Sotheby’s auction house in New York, becoming the most valuable Harry Potter item ever sold. The artwork for the first book in the series, created by Thomas […]
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Fri 28 June 2024: In their first debate since the 2020 election, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump exchanged sharp barbs on a range of issues including global conflicts, immigration, and US democracy. Held at CNN’s studios in Atlanta, Georgia, the debate took place unusually early in the election cycle, before either candidate […]
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Thu 27 June 2024: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Keir Starmer faced off in a heated debate on Wednesday, exchanging personal attacks as they made their final pitches to voters ahead of next week’s election. Trailing in the polls by around 20 points, Sunak accused Starmer of dishonesty on issues like migration, […]
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Thu 27 June 2024: Amazon.com is set to introduce a new section on its shopping site featuring inexpensive items shipped directly to overseas consumers from Chinese warehouses, according to a report by tech news site The Information, which cited slides shown to Chinese sellers. This new marketplace, Amazon’s boldest move yet to compete with discount […]
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Wed 26 June 2024: The UK Conservative Party has withdrawn support from two candidates due to an election date betting scandal, according to reports on Tuesday. A party spokesperson confirmed that Craig Williams and Laura Saunders would no longer receive backing for the general elections on July 4. This decision follows allegations of their involvement […]
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Wed 26 June 2024: A year after Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s murder, court cases in Canada and US focusing on alleged Indian overseas murder plots is testing New Delhi’s ties with Ottawa and Washington. A year after Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar was killed outside a community shrine near Vancouver, a series of diplomatic and […]
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Wed 26 June 2024: Russia has banned 81 media outlets from European Union countries in response to broadcast bans imposed on several Russian state media outlets by Brussels last month. The 27-member bloc had banned four Russian media outlets from broadcasting in May for what it called the spread of propaganda about the war in […]
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