Sun 17 March 2024: Local media in the seaside town of Grindavik, Iceland, reported on Sunday that residents had witnessed their fourth volcanic explosion in the previous three months. The Grindavikurvegur, which connects the southwest town to the rest of the Reykjanes Peninsula, has seen lava flow over it, as reported by state radio RUV. […]
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Sun 17 March 2024: Former US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that there would be a “bloodbath” in the country if he is not reelected in the upcoming presidential election. Speaking to his supporters during a rally at Dayton International Airport in Vandalia, Ohio, Trump touched on “the possibility of an increasing trade war […]
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Sun 17 March 2024: Top-ranked Novak Djokovic will skip the Miami Open saying, less than a week after a surprise loss at Indian Wells, that he needs to balance his “private and professional schedule”. Djokovic’s announcement Saturday on his social media accounts follows his 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 defeat to unheralded Luca Nardi on Monday in the third […]
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Sun 17 March 2024: The main United Nations aid agency operating in Gaza has said that acute malnutrition was accelerating in the north of the Palestinian enclave as Israel prepared to send a delegation to Qatar for new truce talks on a hostage deal with Hamas. On Saturday, the UN Relief and Works Agency for […]
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Sat 16 March 2024: John Barnett, a 62-year-old whistleblower who worked for Boeing for 32 years, did not commit suicide. according to a family friend. He was discovered dead by apparent suicide by authorities in South Carolina. The Charleston County coroner’s office confirmed on Tuesday that Barnett died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. An inquiry […]
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Sat 16 March 2024: Archaeologists in Nuremberg, Germany, made a big discovery while excavating for the construction of a retirement home. They may have discovered the largest mass grave of plague victims in Europe. Archaeologists have discovered about 1,000 skeletons of plague victims in mass graves at Nuremberg, potentially containing over 1,500 people. While accurate […]
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Sat 16 March 2024: The volume of the international arms trade contracted by 3.3% between 2019 and 2023 compared to the preceding five-year period, according to a report released on Monday. However, during the same period, major arms imports into European countries increased by 94%, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said in its report. […]
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Sat 16 March 2024: Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced on Wednesday that her country would be expanding the number of Danes serving in the armed forces and requiring women to conscript. According to Frederiksen, the Nordic nation would be increasing the mandatory service period for both men and women from four months to eleven […]
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Voters cast ballots in Simferopol, Crimea Photo: AP Fri 15 March 2024: For the first time, people across Russia and in the annexed regions of Ukraine will vote for three days in the presidential election from today to Sunday. Results will follow shortly afterwards, and the winner will be inaugurated in May. The multiday […]
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Fri 15 March 2024: The UK government will today unveil a new definition of extremism which appears to target Muslims, despite an eruption of hate crimes against Jews and Muslims since the 7 October Hamas incursion in southern Israel. Critics say that the change risks infringing on freedom of speech. Earlier this month, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak […]
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