Tue 06 February 2024: Oil prices slightly increased in early trade on Tuesday as markets awaited more cues on supply amid the Middle East conflict. The international benchmark crude Brent traded at $78.19 per barrel at 10.28 a.m. local time (0728 GMT), a 0.26% increase from the closing price of $77.99 a barrel in the […]
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Tue 06 February 2024: The UK has announced plans to invest more than 100 million pounds ($125 million) in artificial intelligence (AI) research and training. In line with plans unveiled on Tuesday, the government would establish nine new AI research hubs around the United Kingdom, fund studies looking into the ethical application of AI in […]
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Mon 05 February 2024: The Kremlin on Monday warned that the seizure of Russia’s assets by Western countries, believed to be worth $300 billion that were frozen after Moscow launched its “special military operation” in Ukraine in February 2022, will be challenged in court. “If such decisions are made, they will be deeply illegal. They […]
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Mon 05 February 2024: Global same-store sales – or sales at restaurants open at least a year – rose 3.4 percent in the October-December period last year, well below the 4.7 percent increase Wall Street was expecting, according to analysts polled by FactSet. Customers in the Middle East were angered after McDonald’s Israel – which […]
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Mon 05 February 2024: Boeing, a US aircraft manufacturer, announced on Sunday that it has discovered additional issues with the fuselage of its flagship 737 model. These issues do not now pose a threat to aviation safety, but they will require “rework” on a large dozens of aircraft. “This past Thursday, a supplier notified us […]
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Mon 05 February 2024: At least 112 people have died as a result of Chile’s wildfires, and hundreds more are still missing, authorities said Sunday. President Gabriel Boric on Sunday warned that casualties would rise “significantly” as forest fires continued to blaze in the central region of Valparaiso. “It is Chile as a whole that […]
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Sun 04 February 2024: The death toll from Ukraine’s shelling of a bakery in the Russian-controlled Luhansk region has risen to 28, Moscow said Sunday. “In Lysychansk, the search and rescue operation continues at the site of the collapse of the bakery building … 28 people, including one child, died,” said a statement by Russia’s […]
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Sat 03 February 2024: Several thousand teachers have marched to the streets of Paris, beginning at Place Edmond Rostand in the 6th arrondissement and ending at the National Education Ministry. Protesters on Thursday issued “a warning to the government that remains deaf,” denouncing a lack of interest in and treatment of public schools, as well […]
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Sat 03 February 2024: In response to the rapidly spreading forest fires in the country’s center that have already claimed the lives of at least ten people, Chile has declared a state of emergency. President Gabriel Boric announced the measure on X, posting that “all forces are deployed in the fight against the forest fires.” […]
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Sat 03 February 2024: A former CIA software engineer has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for leaking classified information and possessing child sexual abuse material. Joshua Schulte, 35, was found guilty in 2022 of four counts each of espionage and computer hacking and one count of lying to FBI agents after handing over […]
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