Thu 05 October 2023: A new Reuters/Ipsos poll is showing that support is falling among Americans for supplying Ukraine with weapons, a warning sign for Kyiv, which relies heavily on US arms to fight Russia. The two-day poll, which closed on Wednesday, showed only 41 percent of respondents agreed with a statement that Washington “should […]
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Thu 05 October 2023: More than 60 Jamaican primary school kids were hospitalized after eating potent rainbow-colored cannabis candy, the Caribbean country’s education minister said on social media platform X, causing them to vomit and hallucinate. “I feel confident that together we will strengthen our safety and security regime to combat the unconscionable sale of […]
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Thu 05 October 2023: Climate change is one of the most profound challenges the world faces, remarked Pope Francis on Wednesday. In his apostolic exhortation, the pope warned that the world is collapsing and may be getting closer to the breaking point, adding that it is indubitable that the impact of climate change will increasingly […]
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Thu 05 October 2023: During the 78th UN General Assembly last month, world leaders criticized existing multilateral institutions and called for reform, said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday. “Without exception, leaders spoke of the importance of multilateral solutions. But leader after leader told me that our current multilateral institutions are not delivering-and called for […]
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Wed 04 October 2023: The world football governing body, FIFA, has partially lifted its ban on Russia competing in international football matches by allowing its under-17 girls and boys teams to take part in tournaments, a move that is likely to irk authorities in Ukraine and other parts of Europe. Teams from Russia were banned […]
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Assault rifles and missiles seized by the French navy lay on the deck of a ship at an undisclosed location [US military’s Central Command via AP] Wed 04 October 2023: The United States has transferred to Ukraine 1.1 million rounds of small arms ammunition that it seized from Iran, says US Central Command. The rounds […]
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots. Wed 04 October 2023: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Chemistry was awarded to researchers Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Alexei Ekimov for “the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots,” which […]
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Wed 04 October 2023: Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been ousted by the US House of Representatives as a result of internal strife and continuous opposition from the party’s right flank. The House voted to remove its leader for the first time in US history on Tuesday evening when it removed McCarthy from his […]
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A woman in front of her earthquake-damaged house in the old city in Marrakesh. [Fadel Senna/AFP] Wed 04 October 2023: Climate change is detrimental in every imaginable way, negatively affecting the global economy, agriculture, industry, sports and everything else people know, love and make use of, Anadolu Agency reports. But one aspect of this environmental […]
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Tue 03 October 2023: Grimes has initiated a legal action against her ex-partner Elon Musk concerning their three children. Under the alias Claire Boucher, the artist filed a “petition to establish parental relationship” in a California court on September 29. This request aims to legally identify the parents of children born to unmarried couples. Although […]
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