Sun 08 October 2023: The opposition Labour Party in the United Kingdom is on track to score a landslide victory in a national election next year, according to an opinion poll published on Saturday. Most of the polls put Labour, which gathers in northern England this weekend for its annual conference, roughly 20 points ahead […]
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Sat 07 October 2023: Canada is gripped by a surge in homelessness that has seen tens of thousands of people priced out of rental and real estate markets and left to live in the streets of the wealthy nation. Researchers warn government data is vastly underestimating the number of homeless across the country, as the […]
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Sat 07 October 2023: At least 198 people have been killed and 1,610 wounded in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza during Israel’s retaliation after a deadly multi-pronged attack by Hamas forces into Israel, the health ministry says. The growing casualty toll on Saturday came after the Palestinian group running the Gaza Strip launched the largest attack […]
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Sat 07 October 2023: Cannibalism, or eating another individual of the same species, was common in Europe some 15,000 years ago, a study published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews has revealed. It also revealed that people would eat their dead relatives, not out of compulsion but as part of culture and tradition. The research […]
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Sat 07 October 2023: Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX, has said his company could land a spacecraft on Mars within the next three to four years. The tech billionaire made remarks on Thursday during a virtual address at the International Astronautical Congress in Baku, Azerbaijan, where he engaged in a one-hour question-and-answer […]
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Sat 07 October 2023: NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg appointed a 10-person independent expert group Friday to support the assessment of the alliance’s approach to the South, especially the Middle East, North Africa and the Sahel regions, according to a statement. The group of diplomats, academics and soldiers. include former Turkish Ambassador to Paris, Ali Onaner. […]
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Fri 06 October 2023: Weather-related disasters forcibly displaced a staggering 43.1 million children across 44 countries over the past six years, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday. That figure translates to an alarming average of 20,000 children uprooted every day. The findings are contained in UNICEF’s latest report, Children Displaced in a Changing […]
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Fri 06 October 2023: The Biden administration is expected to announce a new weapons package for Ukraine next week as the Pentagon continues to use up funds discovered due to a multibillion-dollar accounting error, according to US officials. The funds have allowed Washington to send Kyiv military support despite the exclusion of new Ukraine aid […]
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Fri 06 October 2023: According to a recent survey, one-third of Americans today prefer not to identify with any religion. In contrast to earlier comparable polls, the number of people who simply identified as Christians has also drastically decreased. Between May 11 and May 15, Associated Press-NORC conducted the survey. The poll of 1,680 adults […]
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Fri 06 October 2023: Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her British counterpart Rishi Sunak have vowed to fight “illegal” migration to Europe, describing the issue as a humanitarian crisis, with shipwrecks of unsafe boats claiming more than 2,000 lives this year. “Every week, thousands of migrants cross the Mediterranean to reach Italy, entering Europe […]
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