Fri 25 August 2023: Former United States President Donald Trump has returned to the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, with a post showing his mug shot from his booking at Fulton County Jail in Georgia earlier in the day. Trump reclaimed direct access on Thursday to the public on the platform that banned him following the […]
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Thu 24 August 2023: One in three private renters have been forced to borrow money to pay their rent in the space of a month, shocking new figures showed. Over two million people have turned to credit cards, overdrafts, family members or even payday loans to meet landlords’ demands, The Independent reported. The finding comes […]
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Thu 24 August 2023: Pro-Kremlin television station Tsargrad TV has reported, citing its own sources, that Prigozhin’s body has been provisionally identified, but that DNA analysis was still pending, according to the DPA news agency. The crash, which remains shrouded in mystery, has ignited speculation about how Prigozhin, an outspoken critic of top Russian defence […]
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Wed 23 August 2023: The Canadian government, under pressure over the rising cost of housing, could consider capping foreign student visas, which have rocketed in recent years, new Housing Minister Sean Fraser said on Monday. Official data show there were more than 800,000 foreign students with active visas in 2022, up from 275,000 in 2012. […]
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Wed 23 August 2023: The unwillingness of many leading countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to stand with NATO over the war in Ukraine has brought to the fore once again the term “Global South.” “Why does so much of the Global South support Russia?” inquired one recent headline; “Ukraine courts ‘Global South’ in push to challenge Russia,” declared another. […]
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Wed 23 August 2023: Sergei Surovikin, a former leader of Moscow’s military campaign in Ukraine, has been stripped of his duties as chief of the nation’s aerospace forces, a prominent journalist in Russia and media outlets have reported. On his Telegram channel on Tuesday, Alexei Venediktov, the well-connected former editor-in-chief of the now-defunct Ekho Moskvy […]
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Tue 22 August 2023: Greek authorities said the bodies of 18 people were found Tuesday in an area of northeastern Greece struck by a major wildfire. The charred bodies were found in a remote village in northern Greece on Tuesday, where wildfires have been raging for days, the fire brigade said as a heatwave hitting southern Europe […]
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Tue 22 August 2023: Experts are raising alarms over the “Bibby Stockholm” ship, which the UK plans to house irregular migrants, asserting that it falls short of meeting fundamental humanitarian standards, Anadolu Agency reports. Sureyya Sonmez Efe, a Turkish researcher with expertise in the legal statuses and rights of migrant workers and a faculty member at Lincoln […]
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Tue 22 August 2023: The US on Monday urged its citizens to leave Belarus “immediately” as Lithuania shut down two of six border crossings with the country amid growing tensions in the region. “Do not travel to Belarus due to Belarusian authorities’ continued facilitation of Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine, the buildup of Russian military […]
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Tue 22 August 2023: The average cost of petrol at UK forecourts has risen to break 150p a litre for the first time since the start of the year, despite close scrutiny of fuel prices during the cost of living crisis. The latest increase in pump prices means petrol is now 150.51p a litre, the […]
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