Tue 11 July 2023: More than 700,000 households in Great Britain missed out on energy bill support, despite being eligible for it, according to a new analysis. In February, the government said more than 900,000 households in places such as park homes and houseboats could get a one-off £400 payment – even though they did […]
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Tue 11 July 2023: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to back Sweden’s bid to join NATO after a year of blocking the move, citing Turkish security concerns. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced on Monday that Erdogan agreed to forward Sweden’s membership bid to Turkey’s parliament. After talks in Vilnius, Lithuania, with Erdogan and […]
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(Al Jazeera) Tue 11 July 2023: Over the past year, the world population officially hit eight billion, and India surpassed China to become the world’s most populous country. People across the globe observe July 11 as World Population Day – designated by the United Nations to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population […]
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Tue 11 July 2023: Zelenskyy says it would be absurd if Ukraine is not offered a timeframe for NATO membership during the Vilnius summit. “It’s unprecedented and absurd when time frame is not set neither for the invitation nor for Ukraine’s membership. While at the same time vague wording about “conditions” is added even for […]
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Tue 11 July 2023: Nearly four out of ten students at Brown University, one of the most famous universities in America, now identify as LGBTQ sexual orientations, which has increased over the past ten years. The Brown Daily Herald, a newspaper for an Ivy League campus, conducted a poll last month and discovered that 38% […]
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Mon 10 July 2023: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stated that if the European Union begins long-stalled membership discussions with Ankara, he will support Sweden’s NATO candidacy. “First, open the way for Turkey’s membership in the European Union, and then we will open it for Sweden, just as we had opened it for Finland,” […]
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Vladimir Putin and Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin. File Photo: RIA Novosti Mon 10 July 2023: The Kremlin says that Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin on June 29, five days after the group marched towards Moscow in a short-lived rebellion. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Putin invited […]
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Mon 10 July 2023: Advocacy groups filed a lawsuit against Harvard University, accusing it of discriminatory practice of giving preferential treatment in the admissions process to applicants with familial ties to wealthy donors and alumni. The lawsuit, filed by the Lawyers for Civil Rights group on behalf of the Chica Project, the African Community Economic […]
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Sun 09 July 2023: A BBC presenter at the centre of claims he paid a teenager for explicit pictures allegedly appeared in his underwear in a video call, British tabloid The Sun has reported. The newspaper said the unnamed BBC star has been accused of paying a teenager more than £35,000 ($45,000) in exchange for […]
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy with the freed Ukrainian commanders returning from Turkey. Photograph: Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Twitter Sat 08 July 2023: Turkey has violated agreements by releasing detained commanders of a unit that for weeks defended a steelworks in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. Peskov, quoted by RIA news agency, said under […]
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