Fri 29 December 2023: Former United States President Donald Trump has been kicked off the ballot for the 2024 presidential primary in Maine after a state official determined the Republican frontrunner is ineligible due to his support of insurrection. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, announced the decision to remove Trump from the […]
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Thu 28 December 2023: The Eiffel Tower, one of the world’s top tourist attractions, was closed Wednesday after staff went on strike, the landmark’s operator said. The one-day stoppage on the 100th anniversary of the death of engineer Gustave Eiffel, who built the tower, was to protest against “the current way it is managed”, the […]
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Thu 28 December 2023: Retailers and producers of fruits and vegetables in France are preparing for the effects of a legislation that forbids the use of single-use plastics, which goes into effect on January 1, as the world gets ready to ring in the new year. The enactment of the law is a step toward […]
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Wed 27 December 2023: The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Wednesday for allegedly using the newspaper’s articles without permission and creating artificial intelligence products. The newspaper is the first US media organization that has sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright issues. The lawsuit that was filed in the Southern District of New […]
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Wed 27 December 2023: In March of this year, Ukraine asked its European allies for a quarter of a million shells a month. Its full battle plan, then-Defence minister Oleksiy Reznikov said, required at least 350,000. Ukraine was then rationing itself to just 110,000 a month and needed Europe to help make up the difference. […]
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Abu Obeida — spokesman for Hamas’ military wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigade (FILE PHOTO). Wed 27 December 2023: Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Wednesday denied Iranian claims that its Oct. 7 attack against Israel was in revenge for the killing of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in 2020. Soleimani was assassinated in a US […]
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Tue 26 December 2023: For a slew of antisemitic comments he made in 2022, Kanye West offered apologies to “the Jewish community.” In a statement posted in Hebrew on his Instagram account, where he has 18.2m followers, he wrote (as translated by Google): “I sincerely apologise to the Jewish community … It was not my intention […]
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Mon 25 December 2023: International Cricket Council (ICC) stopped Usman Khawaja’s latest attempt to show his support for human rights awareness on Sunday, December 24. The Australian cricketer displayed a ‘peace symbol’ on his shoes and bat during the training session at Melbourne Cricket Ground ahead of the upcoming Boxing Day Test against Pakistan but was denied […]
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Mon 25 December 2023: Millions of single mums face a stressful Christmas as cost of living pressures force them to cut back on presents, food and heating. Analysis of Office for National Statistics (ONS) data found that 1.1 million households with single mothers are forced to use less gas or electricity in their homes, while […]
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Sun 24 December 2023: Denmark’s Maersk is preparing to resume shipping operations in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, citing the deployment of a US-led military operation designed to ensure the safety of commerce in the area. The shipping giant paused sending vessels through the Bab al-Mandeb Strait earlier in December because of […]
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