Image Credit: InfoMigrants Thu 27 Apr 2023: Stockholm, Sweden – Murhaf Hamid had hoped he could earn enough money to buy a pizza with friends when he started selling “majblommor” flower pins in southern Sweden. Children aged 9 to 12 sell the pins as part of an annual campaign by Majblomman, Sweden’s oldest charity, to combat […]
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Thu 27 Apr 2023: Pope Francis took unprecedented decisions Wednesday for a pivotal bishops meeting, for the first time giving women the right to vote. The pontiff approved modifications to the norms governing the Synod of Bishops, a Vatican body that gathers the world’s bishops together for periodic meetings, the Vatican said in a statement. Changes […]
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Thu 27 Apr 2023: U.S. President Biden, had knowledge of a journalist’s question, according to a cheat sheet he held during a news conference on Wednesday. The disclosure occurred during a joint press conference with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, who emphasized North Korea’s growing nuclear threat as the two countries marked the 70th […]
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Thu 27 Apr 2023: Two Russian representatives for the ruling United Russia party in the State Duma passed away on Sunday, according to Newsweek. Both Dzhasharbek Uzdenov, 57, and Nikolay Bortsov, 77, who had been a State Duma deputy since 2003, passed away on the same day. While Uzdenov died after a “serious and prolonged […]
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Wed 26 Apr 2023: Following its parent company’s failure to give information requested by authorities on neo-Nazis using the network, a Brazilian court on Wednesday ordered the suspension of messaging app Telegram across the whole country, officials said. In the wake of an investigation into neo-Nazi behavior on social media, the court fined Telegram a […]
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Wed 26 Apr 2023: Muslim children in the United States have increasingly been reporting instances of anti-Muslim hatred in schools, although complaints of hateful sentiments and acts seemed to show an overall decline. According to the Progress in the Shadow of Prejudice report by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights organisation in […]
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Wed 26 Apr 2023: British Home Secretary Suella Braverman said in a TV interview on Wednesday that migrants who risk their lives to enter the UK in small boats are “criminals” as the government presses ahead with its crackdown on Channel crossings. Robert Jenrick, the immigration minister, said in a speech on Tuesday that “those […]
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Wed 26 Apr 2023: On Tuesday, Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa suggested that his nation need to take more action than just offer an apology for its part in the transatlantic slave trade. “Apologizing is sometimes the easiest thing to do: you apologize, turn your back, and the job’s done,” he said in parliament […]
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Wed 26 Apr 2023: First Republic Bank’s shares have plunged to a record low after the lender announced that depositors withdrew more than $100bn, prompting fears of further bank collapses after the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. First Republic’s stock closed down nearly 50 percent on Tuesday, after the San Francisco-based lender […]
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Wed 26 Apr 2023: US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday warned that failure by Congress to raise the government’s debt ceiling – and the resulting default – would trigger an “economic catastrophe” that would send interest rates higher for years to come. Yellen, in remarks prepared for a Washington event with business executives from California, said […]
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