Mon 15 January 2024: Pope Francis said Sunday that retirement remains an option open to all popes, but he is not contemplating it at present. “I am still alive,” Francis responded when asked how he was by TV host Fabio Fazio, who interviewed the pontiff for about an hour during his show on the commercial […]
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Mon 15 January 2024: Geopolitical strife and tight financing conditions will slow global economic growth, while artificial intelligence (AI) will increase inequality, according to leading economists. The survey, released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Monday before its annual meeting in the Swiss resort of Davos, weighed the analysis of 60-plus chief economists from both the […]
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Sun 14 January 2024: A volcano located north of the Icelandic fishing community of Grindavik erupted early Sunday (Jan 14), barely hours after inhabitants in the region were evacuated, according to authorities. This is Iceland’s fifth volcanic explosion in roughly three years. The most recent occurred on December 18 in the same area southwest of the capital, Reykjavik. The Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) reported that the eruption occurred at 8:00 a.m. (0800 GMT). “A crack has opened up on both sides of the dykes that have begun to be built north of Grindavik,” the Met Office wrote. According to the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO), the lava was advancing towards the town and had reached a distance of approximately 450 meters […]
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Sun 14 January 2024: Sexual, psychological and physical violence has taken place in several countries within the ultra-conservative Society of Saint Pius X, Swiss newspaper Le Temps reported Saturday after a months-long investigation into the breakaway Catholic group. The society “cannot escape accusations of control, sexual violence and a cult of secrecy”, the newspaper wrote, […]
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Sat 13 January 2024: Jacinda Ardern, the former prime minister of New Zealand, wed Clarke Gayford, her lifelong partner, in a private ceremony on Saturday, January 13, following a delay brought on by her government’s strict COVID-19 regulations in the nation. After roughly five years of courtship and ten years of dating, the couple got […]
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Sat 13 January 2024: The Russian energy giant Gazprom announced on Saturday that it set a new record for daily gas deliveries to China on Jan. 12. “The supply via the Power of Siberia gas pipeline has again exceeded the company’s daily contractual obligations,” the company said in a statement, without specifying how many hydrocarbons […]
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Sat 13 January 2024: The number of British homes that failed to pay their energy bills surged by almost 40 percent compared with a year ago, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed on Thursday. The data released on Thursday showed that the total Direct Debit failure rate in December 2023 increased by […]
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Fri 12 January 2024: Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said on Thursday that the GDP of the United Kingdom (UK) is approximately 140 billion British pounds (178.7 billion US dollars), or 6%, less than it would have been as a result of Brexit. During an address in the City of London, Khan cited a report […]
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Fri 12 January 2024: On Thursday, the value of the Turkish lira fell to an all-time low of more than 30 liras per US dollar, Xinhua reported. The exchange rate for one dollar at 10:25 a.m. local time (0725 GMT) was 30.01 lira. The value of the Turkish lira has dropped by more than 37% […]
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Thu 11 January 2024: The current US presidential administration is actively exerting pressure on other nations, urging them to seize Russian assets, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday. Commenting on media reports claiming that the Joe Biden administration supported amendments to legislation drafted to make the seizure of the Russian frozen money legal, Peskov […]
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