Tue 09 January 2024: Far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders, seeking to woo partners for a coalition government after the Nov. 22 elections in the Netherlands, has withdrawn an anti-Islamic bill, local media reported on Monday. Wilders sent a letter to Martin Bosma, head of the lower house of the parliament, seeking to withdraw a 2018 […]
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Mon 08 January 2024: Pope Francis called Monday for a global ban on surrogacy, calling the practice “deplorable.” “A child is always a gift and never the basis of a commercial contract. Consequently, I express my hope for an effort by the international community to prohibit this practice universally,” he told ambassadors accredited to the […]
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Mon 08 January 2024: More than 1 million people in England died prematurely in the decade after 2011 owing to a combination of poverty, austerity and COVID, according to “shocking” new research by one of the UK’s leading public health experts. The figures are revealed in a study by the Institute of Health Equity at University College […]
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Mon 08 January 2024: The Nazi salute and other hate symbols are illegal in Australia. Legislation prohibiting the salute and the display or sale of symbols affiliated with terrorist groups went into force on Monday, as the Australian government responded to an increase in hate and anti-Semitic acts in recent months, particularly during Israel’s bombardment […]
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Sun 07 January 2024: Celebrating Orthodox Christmas, President Vladimir Putin has pledged to support soldiers defending Russia as his army sent another barrage of drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight. Speaking on the eve of Sunday’s Orthodox Christmas, the Kremlin chief promised military families that his government would offer increased backing to “Russian warriors” engaged […]
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Sun 07 January 2024: Americans are becoming increasingly less optimistic about how democracy is working in the United States, according to a recent survey. The Gallup poll, released Friday, found that only 28 percent of adults in the US are satisfied with democracy — a record low. That number is down from the prior record, 35 […]
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Sat 06 January 2024: Canada’s unemployment rate remained steady at 5.8% in December, according to official figures released Friday by Statistics Canada. The figure came in lower than the market expectation of 5.9%. “Employment was virtually unchanged in December,” Statistics Canada said in a statement. “The employment rate fell 0.2 percentage points to 61.6%, as […]
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Sat 06 January 2024: Alaska Airlines has said it is grounding its fleet of Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft after a window and piece of fuselage blew out midair, forcing an emergency landing in Portland, in the US state of Oregon. The incident took place shortly after takeoff on Friday and the gaping hole caused […]
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Sat 06 January 2024: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a decree on providing citizenship to foreigners contracted to the country’s military since the start of the Ukraine war. The decree, published on the government portal, said foreign citizens that have entered into a contract with the armed forces or other “military formations” since […]
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Fri 05 January 2024: Kyiv on Friday claimed that Russia conducted airstrikes on Ukraine using North Korean missiles, mirroring a statement made a day earlier by the US. “There is no longer any disguise… As part of its outright genocidal war, the Russian Federation for the first time struck at the territory of Ukraine with […]
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