Sun 21 January 2024: Is it possible for there to be ghosts? – Madelyn, age 11, Fort Lupton, Colorado Certainly, lots of people believe in ghosts – a spirit left behind after someone who was alive has died. In a 2021 poll of 1,000 American adults, 41% said they believe in ghosts, and 20% said they […]
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Sun 21 January 2024: Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said Thursday that an ammunition shortage is preventing Kyiv from winning on the battlefield. “The shortage of ammunition and shell starvation is a very urgent problem that our armed forces are currently facing,” Umerov said at the opening of a conference in Paris on the creation of an artillery coalition […]
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un 21 January 2024: Farmers in Germany seeking sustainable agriculture, demonstrated Saturday with tractors in front of the headquarters of the Social Democratic Party (SPD in Berlin. The farmers are opposed to the government’s plan to remove agricultural diesel subsidies. Hundreds of demonstrators, led by the coalition of SPD with the Greens and the Free […]
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Bodie California Ghost Town is a gold mining Wild West town. Sun 21 January 2024: By the time 2100 rolls around, the almost 30,000 cities that make up the American landscape might seem very different. According to a recent study, by the end of the century, the population of over half of these cities […]
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Sat 20 January 2024: Russian media claimed on Saturday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “made a difficult decision” to fire Commander-in-Chief Valeriy Zaluzhnyi. The Russian daily MK.ru claimed, citing sources in Ukraine that Saturday’s meeting of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine prompted Zelenskyy to reshuffle military and law enforcement ranks. According to […]
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Sat 20 January 2024: More than 50,000 people have staged a demonstration against rising extremism, xenophobia and racism in Germany’s major northern port city of Hamburg. The rally, called “Hamburg is rising against far-right extremism and Neo-Nazi networks,” took to the streets on Friday. Thousands rally against rising far-right extremism, racism in Germany The rally, […]
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Sat 20 January 2024: In a recent report by the World Economic Forum (WEF), experts suggest that the eradication of gender inequality from the world could take as long as 169 years. The report highlights a concerning deterioration in the global situation of gender inequality compared to estimates from 2019. Initially, before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
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Fri 19 January 2024: As part of an ongoing antitrust action, the European Commission called for input from stakeholders on concessions made by Apple to open up its tap-and-go mobile payment systems on Friday. Apple has pledged to give third-party mobile wallet and payment service providers access to and interoperability with the Near Field Communication […]
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Fri 19 January 2024: The UK on Friday proscribed Hizb ut-Tahrir as a terrorist organization, making it a criminal offence to belong to the group, or invite support for it. The Home Office made the announcement after the House of Commons approved a draft order laid on Monday. “This order makes belonging to Hizb ut-Tahrir […]
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Fri 19 January 2024: Italy approved a law on Thursday to introduce penalties up to 60,000 euros (65,000 U.S. dollars) on those who damage artworks and historical monuments. In a series of protests, activists in Italy have in recent years spilled paint into Rome’s Trevi Fountain and Venice’s Grand Canal, dumped soup on an iconic […]
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