Sun 26 October 2023: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said his country needs more air defense systems in order to protect the grain corridor that has been operational since Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative in July. “We still need a very specific number of systems with a very specific name. The request […]
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Sun 26 October 2023: The Muslim community in the Netherlands is increasingly worried about the results of last Wednesday’s elections, in which Geert Wilders’ far-right Islamophobic Party for Freedom (PVV) emerged as the top party. Speaking to Anadolu, Muhsin Koktas, head of the Contact Body for Muslims and Government, said the victory of Wilders, who […]
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Sat 25 October 2023: Istanbul is hosting the 9th World Halal Summit and the 10th Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Halal Expo, two major events for products and services conforming to Islamic guidelines, known as halal. The events opened Thursday with the participation of 500 prominent companies from 45 countries and the gathering is expected […]
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Sat 25 October 2023: Americans spent $5.6 billion on online shopping on Thanksgiving Day, an increase from 5.5% last year. According to data from Adobe Analytics, consumers spent $5.6 billion on things like clothes, electronics, jewelry and toys while about $3.3 billion of the shopping happened over mobile devices, an all-time record for Thanksgiving. The […]
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Fri 24 October 2023: Venice will trial an admission fee and a daily limit on visitor numbers in its overcrowded centre from next April, in a scheme the Italian city’s mayor has hailed as a world first. The system is designed to manage the flow of tourists when visitor numbers are at their peak, local […]
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Thu 23 October 2023: The UK government has said it intends to review the proposed sale of the Telegraph Media Group to an Abu Dhabi-backed investment fund on public interest grounds. The fund, RedBird IMI, announced on Monday that it was set to take control of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph sister newspapers […]
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Wed 22 October 2023: The US Justice Department announced Tuesday it seized nearly $9 million worth of Tether — a cryptocurrency pegged one-to-one with the US dollar. The seized funds were traced to cryptocurrency addresses allegedly associated with an organization that exploited more than 70 victims through romance scams and cryptocurrency confidence scams, which are […]
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Wed 22 October 2023: More than 10,000 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion last year, the United Nations says, with about half of the deaths in the past three months taking place far behind the front lines. The actual toll is expected to be “significantly higher” than the official tally since corroboration […]
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Tue 21 October 2023: Anticipation is building on Wall Street as the arrival of Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) looms, heralding what is deemed as crypto’s breakthrough on the institutional stage. According to Bloomberg, the expected green signal from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for these ETFs is fuelling a fresh hype cycle, with […]
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Tue 21 October 2023: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday he is opening an investigation into the left-wing watchdog group Media Matters for publishing a report that said the social media platform X was placing pro-Nazi content next to ads. The repercussions to X were felt immediately after major advertisers such as Apple, Disney, […]
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