Tue 19 December 2023: The number of people experiencing homelessness in the US soared 12% to hit an all-time high, fueled largely by people who became homeless for the first time, according to data released Friday. The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) 2023 Point-in-Time estimate found that more than 650,000 people were without […]
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Mon 18 December 2023: Some 56 organisations have written an open letter to European legislators demanding safeguards on human rights in the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum ahead of final negotiations on the proposal this week. International NGOs including Amnesty, Oxfam, ActionAid and Save the Children, alongside smaller frontline organisations working at European borders have […]
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Mon 18 December 2023: UK human rights group CAGE, which was set up to defend victims of the “war on terror”, is marking its 20th anniversary this week with a celebration of its achievements. The organisation will also be reinvigorating its strategy, announcing its formal rebranding as “CAGE International” and launching its new manifesto around […]
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Mon 18 December 2023: Serbia’s ruling populist party comfortably won Sunday’s parliamentary elections, according to an early official vote count, but political tensions rose over allegations of irregularities in a local election race in the capital, Belgrade. The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) has won 47% of the vote with half of the votes counted, said […]
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Mon 18 December 2023: In northeastern Australia, severe flooding closed off villages and sent people to the rooftops in an attempt to escape the rising waters, forcing hundreds of people to be evacuated. Military helicopters were sent to help communities cut off by the floodwaters, and more than 300 people were rescued in the state […]
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Sun 17 December 2023: X Corp owner Elon Musk urged Italians and other people in developed countries to have more children “or the culture of Italy, Japan, and France will disappear.” US billionaire Elon Musk stated during a political festival organized by Italian leader Giorgia Meloni’s far-right Brothers of Italy party that having more children […]
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Sun 17 December 2023: When he was eleven years old, Alex Batty went on vacation to Spain; nevertheless, he didn’t show up in France for another six years. Alex Batty, a British teenager, returned to the UK six years after leaving for a planned two-week family vacation in Spain. After that vacation, Batty never went […]
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Sun 17 December 2023: The Russian president has dismissed the United States’s claims that Moscow could attack a NATO country in the future as “complete nonsense”, saying such a conflict would run counter to his country’s interests. Vladimir Putin made the statement in an interview with Russian state TV on Sunday, weeks after US President […]
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Sun 17 December 2023: In a survey of 5,000 European consumers across Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Spain, Adevinta found that half (50%) of all respondents plan to spend less this Christmas due to the high cost-of-living. As a result, a majority of people (64%) are considering purchasing second-hand items over the festive period […]
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Sat 16 December 2023: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday promised “harsh” punishment for foreign interference in next year’s election, where he will seek to extend his decades-long grip on power into the 2030s. “Any interference in Russia’s internal affairs will be punished, and punished harshly, according to Russian laws,” Putin said during a meeting […]
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