Sat 01 June 2024: Ukraine has begun recruiting prisoners to bolster its infantry ranks against Russia, with over four thousand inmates applying so far. Under a new government deal, prisoners can have their sentences cleared if they serve in the army until the war ends, at which point they would be granted parole. “My mother […]
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Sat 01 June 2024: All UK political parties need to be honest about the painful fiscal choices facing the next government during the coming election campaign, the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank announced. The challenge awaiting the winner is greater than any government has faced since at least the 1950s and wishful thinking that […]
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Fri 31 May 2024: President Joe Biden has eased a restriction on Ukraine using US weapons within Russian territory to aid in defending the northeastern Kharkiv region from renewed Russian attacks. Multiple US officials, speaking anonymously, reported that Kyiv is now permitted to use these weapons on the border of Kharkiv, which has faced increased […]
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Fri 31 May 2024: According to the survey, 3 out of 4 Americans typically eat fast food once a week, but 62% say they are eating fast food less frequently due to its “luxurious” cost. About 78% of American consumers now consider fast food to be a “luxury” purchase due to the cost, a recent […]
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Fri 31 May 2024: The jury in Donald Trump’s hush-money payments trial has found the former U.S. president guilty of falsifying business records in relation to payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels. The guilty verdict marks the first felony conviction of a U.S. president. Speaking to reporters after the verdict, Trump called the trial a […]
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Wed 29 May 2024: Colombia’s Congress has approved a bill banning bullfighting. On Tuesday, lawmakers passed the bill with a vote of 93-2. Activists have long campaigned to end the controversial blood sport, a centuries-old colonial tradition in Colombia. The ban will be implemented gradually over three years, during which the state will be required […]
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Wed 29 May 2024: Pope Francis has issued an apology after he was quoted as having used a highly derogatory word to describe the LGBT community, the Vatican said. Italian media reported on Monday that Francis used the Italian term “frociaggine”, roughly translating as “f****try”, in a private meeting last week when he was asked […]
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Tue 28 May 2024: More than 730,000 customers in the U.S. state of Texas were still without power after storms hit the state, according to an update of PowerOutage.us on Tuesday morning. The numbers continued to climb and more than 300,000 outages occurred in Dallas County alone. Over 160,000 homes and businesses across the states […]
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Tue 28 May 2024: The French parliament on Monday began debate on a bill to legalize “assisted dying,” which the health minister says is not euthanasia, according to media reports. The draft law seeking to legalize “assisted dying” will be debated for two weeks in the lower chamber of parliament, or the National Assembly, with […]
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Tue 28 May 2024: Research from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has found that the proportion of women among the top earners in the UK’s financial and professional services sector has decreased since the COVID-19 pandemic. Between the first quarter of 2020 and the second quarter of 2023, women constituted 19.4 […]
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