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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Sat 16 December 2023: Italy’s archaeologists uncovered a bakery prison in Pompeii that held slaves and used them as laborers to produce bread. In an article published on Friday, December 8, the news agency Reuters stated that the bakery was found while conducting excavations at the Pompeii ruins. In a statement, Italy’s culture ministry said […]
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Sat 16 December 2023: International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said Thursday a set of rules and the establishment of infrastructure are required to avoid the risks of cryptocurrencies. “Crypto assets are not going away. Bitcoin is trading at its highest value since April 2022. The crypto market cap doubled over the last […]
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Sat 16 December 2023: Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps’ push notifications, a U.S. senator warned on Wednesday. In a letter to the Department of Justice, Senator Ron Wyden said foreign officials were demanding the data from Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google and Apple (AAPL.O). Although details were sparse, the letter lays out yet another path by […]
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