Wed 06 March 2024: UK finance minister Jeremy Hunt announced new tax cuts Wednesday as the ruling Conservatives try to haul back support from a resurgent Labour Party before this year’s general election. These are the main measures in a highly political budget designed to persuade voters to stick with the Tories rather than return […]
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Wed 06 March 2024: Western leaders are “playing with fire” by discussing the possibility of sending European troops to Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. “The French president is discussing the idea of sending a foreign contingent. They are all playing with fire,” Peskov said on the sidelines of the World Youth Festival, […]
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Wed 06 March 2024: Front-runner and former US President Donald Trump is the only contender left in the race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 after Nikki Haley officially ended her campaign. Haley expressed gratitude to people who supported her presidential campaign at an address to a group of supporters in Charleston, South Carolina, […]
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Wed 06 March 2024: Retired Canadian judge Andre Denis has been asked by Pope Francis to look into sexual assault allegations against the Archbishop of Quebec, according to media reports Monday. The allegations against Cardinal Gerald Lacroix stem from two incidents allegedly involving him that reportedly occurred in 1987 and 1988 in Quebec City in […]
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Tue 05 March 2024: Maria Branyas Morera, the world’s oldest living person, celebrated her 117th birthday in Catalonia, Spain, on Monday. “Old age is a kind of sacrament. You lose your hearing, but you hear more because you hear life, not noises… In the light of death, life takes on a specific, more definitive weight,” she […]
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Tue 05 March 2024: Telegram has introduced new features to improve group communications. Among these is Boosts for Groups, which allows groups to advance through levels using member boosts or gifts. Higher group levels unlock premium features such as voice-to-text transcription and custom emoji packs, which improve the entire chat experience. Voice-to-Text transcription With Voice-to-Text […]
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Tue 05 March 2024: French legislators on Monday voted to explicitly enshrine access to abortion in the Constitution, making their country the first in the world to do so. At total of 780 deputies and senators approved the introduction into Article 34 of the Constitution the sentence: “The law determines the conditions under which the […]
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Tue 05 March 2024: On Monday, the US Supreme Court decided that none of the 50 states could bar Donald Trump from running for president. The Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to disallow the former president from running for the state’s Republican presidential primary was unanimously overturned by the nation’s highest court. The state court claimed […]
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Mon 04 March 2024: The Kremlin said on Monday that leaked military discussions between senior German military officers last week suggested that plans by Berlin to attack Russia are being “substantively and specifically” discussed. “This (conversation) in itself suggests that within the Bundeswehr (armed forces), plans to launch strikes on the territory of the Russian […]
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Mon 04 March 2024: Haiti’s government has declared a state of emergency and enforced a curfew following an outbreak of gang-led violence over the weekend that resulted in the escape of thousands of convicts after assaults on the country’s two largest prisons. Thousands of inmates escaped from a prison in Haiti on Sunday after armed […]
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