Hidden Roman city found in Zaragoza. — Express/File Thu 16 May 2024: At the La Cabañeta archaeological site in Spain, researchers have discovered the remains of a vast 2,000-year-old Roman plaza. According to a statement from the University of Zaragoza, this is the oldest public square found in the interior of the Iberian Peninsula. […]
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Thu 16 May 2024: New Zealand is experiencing a record exodus of citizens as a sluggish economy reduces job opportunities. Some 78,200 citizens departed in the year through March, Statistics New Zealand said Tuesday in Wellington. That’s up from 74,900 in the year through February. Adjusting for citizens returning home, net departures rose to a […]
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Wed 15 May 2024: Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico has been wounded in a shooting and taken to hospital. Fico was hit in the stomach after four shots were fired outside the House of Culture in the town of Handlova on Wednesday afternoon, Slovakian media reported. Police sealed off the scene, and Fico was taken […]
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Wed 15 May 2024: Web and mobile services try to understand the desires and goals of users by analysing how they interact with their platforms. Smartphones, for instance, capture online data from users at a large scale and low cost. Policymakers have reacted by enforcing mechanisms to mitigate the risks inherent in tech companies storing and processing their citizens’ […]
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Wed 15 May 2024: Authorities in the Canadian province of Alberta have issued evacuation orders for neighbourhoods in Fort McMurray, as a growing wildfire nears the community at the heart of Canada’s tar sands region. The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo on Tuesday afternoon gave residents of the Abasand, Beacon Hill, Prairie Creek and Grayling […]
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Mon 13 May 2024: Thousands of people in Canada’s westernmost province of British Columbia (BC) have been evacuated from their homes as authorities warn that a enormous wildfire continues to grow. In a video shared online late on Sunday, Cliff Chapman of the BC Wildfire Service said the Parker Lake Wildfire has exhibited “fast growth and high […]
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Mon 13 May 2024: Oil prices increased on Monday amid moderate investor profit-taking, supply uncertainties from tensions in the Middle East, and the possibility of the OPEC+ group’s extended supply cuts. International benchmark Brent crude traded at $83.09 per barrel at 11.22 a.m. local time (0822 GMT), an increase of 0.36% from the closing price […]
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Mon 13 May 2024: Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to remove Sergei Shoigu as defence minister as part of a cabinet reshuffle, making him secretary of the Security Council instead. Andrei Belousov, a former deputy prime minister who specialises in economics, will become the new defence minister, the Kremlin said on Sunday.The shake-up comes as Putin begins […]
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Sun 12 May 2024: A fourth Indian national has been arrested by Canadian authorities in connection with the killing of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada. Amardeep Singh, 22, a resident of Brampton, Surrey, and Abbotsford areas of Canada, has been charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder, PTI news agency reported. […]
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Sun 12 May 2024: Russian forces have taken four more villages in a two-day old offensive in Ukraine’s Kharkivregion, the defence ministry said Sunday. Russia claimed Saturday that it had taken six Ukrainian villages, including five in Kharkiv. The ministry said the Russian forces had “advanced deeply into the enemy defences” to take the new villages. Delayed […]
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