Sun 31 December 2023: Russia “will never retreat,” President Vladimir Putin proclaimed on Sunday in a New Year’s address to the nation. “We have proven more than once that we can solve the most difficult problems and will never retreat, because there is no force that can divide us, make us forget the memory and […]
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Sat 30 December 2023: U.S. retail sales excluding automobiles grew 3.1 percent year on year in the period from Nov. 1 to Dec. 24, 2023, according to preliminary data in the latest Mastercard Spending Pulse report issued on Tuesday. By contrast, the United States recorded 7.6 percent of year-on-year expansion in the same period of […]
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Sat 30 December 2023: Only one in 20 vehicle crimes end in a charge or summons despite soaring numbers of offences, figures suggested. Charge rates for car thefts, stealing from a vehicle and interference with a vehicle dropped from almost eight percent in 2019 to just 5.08 percent last year, The Daily Mail reported. This […]
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Sat 30 December 2023: Russia has devised an alternate plan to deal with the situation if the West tries to confiscate its frozen money through a “pseudo-legal” system that would violate the basic parameters of the international economy, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday, without disclosing countermeasures. “No US legal theory” concerning the confiscation […]
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Sat 30 December 2023: The Turkish Super Cup final between Galatasaray and Fenerbahce scheduled to be played in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh was called off over an apparent disagreement about the players’ jerseys. The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) and the two teams – who returned to Istanbul on Saturday after Friday’s postponed match – said […]
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Sat 30 December 2023: Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of millions of people who thought they were doing their browsing privately. US district judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, put a scheduled trial in the proposed class action, which was due to begin in February, on […]
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Fri 29 December 2023: The Asteroid 2020 KT4 belongs to the Apollo group of asteroids. These are Near-Earth Asteroids. The asteroid has come in Earth’s vicinity right in the holiday season. The asteroid is the size of a big aircraft, it is about 250 feet wide. It is hurtling through space at a huge speed […]
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Fri 29 December 2023: The attempt by Elon Musk’s X to overturn a California law requiring social media companies to disclose to the public the methods they use for content moderation on their platforms has failed. In September, X filed a lawsuit against the state of California, claiming that the new legislation violates upon the […]
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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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