Fri 08 March 2024: Israel’s police forces say that Israelis will be allowed to visit Al-Aqsa Mosque compound during the first week of Ramadan. The statement quoted by The Associated Press news agency raised concerns about the access for Palestinians to the revered site during the holy month. The authorities in Israel say they will […]
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Gonococci (or Neisseria gonorrhoeae) in an uretral pus. This bacterium is reponsible for Gonorrhea (blennorrhagia or clap), urethritis, vaginitis (sexually transmitted disease). Fri 08 March 2024: Europe has seen a worrying spike in sexually transmitted infections (STIs), the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said on Thursday. The ECDC said that this […]
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Fri 08 March 2024: Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has handed over Sweden’s instruments of accession to NATO to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a ceremony in Washington. “Good things come to those who wait,” said Blinken. “With receipt of this instrument of accession let me be the very first to welcome Sweden […]
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Fri 08 March 2024: State of emergency declared after unrest worsens and thousands of prisoners break out of jail. Haiti’s director of National Police has warned the capital is at war. Port-au-Prince has been overrun by gangs. A state of emergency has been declared after gang members attacked two prisons over the weekend – freeing […]
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A mural depicting an Inuit woman and a polar bear in Nuuk, Greenland. Thu 07 March 2024: Greenland’s Indigenous women have opted to sue Denmark for failing to meet their compensation claim of roughly 43 million kroner (approximately $6.3 million) for forcing them to use involuntary birth control in the 1960s and 1970s, Danish […]
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Wed 06 March 2024: UK finance minister Jeremy Hunt announced new tax cuts Wednesday as the ruling Conservatives try to haul back support from a resurgent Labour Party before this year’s general election. These are the main measures in a highly political budget designed to persuade voters to stick with the Tories rather than return […]
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Wed 06 March 2024: Western leaders are “playing with fire” by discussing the possibility of sending European troops to Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. “The French president is discussing the idea of sending a foreign contingent. They are all playing with fire,” Peskov said on the sidelines of the World Youth Festival, […]
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Wed 06 March 2024: Front-runner and former US President Donald Trump is the only contender left in the race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 after Nikki Haley officially ended her campaign. Haley expressed gratitude to people who supported her presidential campaign at an address to a group of supporters in Charleston, South Carolina, […]
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Wed 06 March 2024: Retired Canadian judge Andre Denis has been asked by Pope Francis to look into sexual assault allegations against the Archbishop of Quebec, according to media reports Monday. The allegations against Cardinal Gerald Lacroix stem from two incidents allegedly involving him that reportedly occurred in 1987 and 1988 in Quebec City in […]
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Tue 05 March 2024: Maria Branyas Morera, the world’s oldest living person, celebrated her 117th birthday in Catalonia, Spain, on Monday. “Old age is a kind of sacrament. You lose your hearing, but you hear more because you hear life, not noises… In the light of death, life takes on a specific, more definitive weight,” she […]
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