Wed 10 May 2023: Former Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin and her husband Markus Räikkönen are to divorce, the couple said on Instagram on Wednesday. Marin and Räikkönen got married in the summer of 2020 after being together for around 16 years. They met when they were 18-year-old students. They have a daughter together who […]
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Wed 10 May 2023: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed a decree on annual military training for Russian reservists. The document, published on the government portal, instructs local and regional authorities to take relevant measures to organize training. The two-month military training for Russian citizens, who are in the reserve of the armed forces, […]
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Wed 10 May 2023: Conservative commentator rails against mainstream media in clip announcing ‘new version’ of his top-rated show. Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has announced he will bring a “new version” of his top-rated show to Twitter. Carlson made the announcement in a clip posted on Twitter in which he railed against the […]
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Tue 08 May 2023: A US jury has decided that Donald Trump sexually abused writer E Jean Carroll in the 1990s and then defamed her by calling her a liar, striking a legal blow to the former US president as he seeks re-election in 2024. The verdict was read out in a federal court in […]
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Tue 08 May 2023: According to new research, implementing essential and affordable health care interventions, such as aspirin, for expectant mothers could avert the deaths of over 1 million newborns or stillbirths in developing nations annually. An international team of researchers also estimated that one-quarter of the world’s babies are born either premature or underweight, […]
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Tue 08 May 2023: The Paris police force is the subject of heavy criticism after it allowed a group of 600-odd neo-Nazis to openly parade through the capital city last Saturday. Apart from the police force, France’s interior minister is also facing heat from the opposition and the public over inaction. The march on Saturday […]
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Tue 08 May 2023: The chief of Russia’s Wagner Group has accused a Russian military unit of fleeing positions near Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, in his latest scathing attack against Russia’s military leadership. “Today, everything is being done so that the front line crumbles. Today, one of the defence ministry’s units fled one of our […]
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Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly. Mon 08 May 2023: Canada has declared Zhao Wei, a Chinese diplomat allegedly behind the intimidation of a conservative lawmaker, “persona non grata,” Foreign Minister Melanie Joly announced on Monday. “Canada has decided to declare persona non grata Mr. Zhao Wei,” Joly said in a statement. Canada will not […]
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Mon 08 May 2023: Spanish police arrested a couple who robbed 93 churches in 82 towns in northern Spain, the country’s interior ministry said on Monday. The Civil Guard has arrested a couple who are accused of at least 93 robberies in churches in 82 towns, the majority in Cantabria but also in Asturias and […]
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Mon 08 May 2023: Australia’s centre-left Labor government has pledged to include 14.6 billion Australian dollars ($9.88bn) in the federal budget for cost-of-living relief for families and businesses, promising it will not stoke inflation. The plan announced on Monday is designed to directly ease price pressures and inflation, the federal government said, which retreated slightly […]
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