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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Fri 02 February 2024: A pro-Israel advert depicting “Gaza without Hamas” has been condemned by social media users. Watch our report below. SOURCE: AL JAZEERA ______________________________________________________________ FOLLOW INDEPENDENT PRESS: WhatsApp CHANNEL https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaAtNxX8fewmiFmN7N22 TWITTER (CLICK HERE) https://twitter.com/IpIndependent FACEBOOK (CLICK HERE) https://web.facebook.com/ipindependent Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!
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Fri 02 February 2024: Asian markets have rallied after the release of stronger-than-expected earnings results by Meta and Amazon sent the tech giants’ share prices surging. In Hong Kong, where stocks have slumped on weak economic indicators in mainland China, the Hang Seng Index on Friday rose around 2 percent in morning trading before paring […]
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Police say two rocks were thrown through the window of this Mississauga mosque, and are calling it a hate crime. (NCCM/X) Fri 02 February 2024: Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called an attack on a mosque in the Canadian city of Mississauga “cowardly, disturbing, and unacceptable”. “Islamophobia has no place in any of our […]
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