Wed 02 July 2025: The euro increased to its highest since 2021 against the US dollar on Tuesday after annual inflation in the eurozone hit the European Central Bank (ECB)’s target of 2%. The currency was up 0.1% against the dollar to 1.1821 as of 0930GMT, the highest since August 2021. The rise was due […]
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Wed 02 July 2025: New measures to protect the UK from “covert foreign influence” took effect Tuesday to strengthen national security, according to the British government. “National security will be bolstered as the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS) launches today, one of the foundations of the government’s Plan for Change” scheme, it said. It noted […]
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Tue 01 July 2025: US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would look into deporting billionaire Elon Musk as their feud reignited over a Republican-backed spending bill. “I don’t know. We’ll have to take a look,” Trump told reporters when asked if he would deport Musk. His remarks came after the Tesla CEO renewed his […]
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Tue 01 July 2025: Billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday stepped up his opposition to US President Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” pledging to launch a new political party if the controversial omnibus bill is approved by Congress. “It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a […]
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Tue 01 July 2025: Police in Turkiye have detained four people over a cartoon published by the satirical magazine LeMan, which critics say appeared to depict Prophet Muhammad and Prophet Moses shaking hands in the sky as missiles fell below in a war-like scene – a claim the magazine denies. The cartoon, published last week, […]
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Tue 01 July 2025: A punishing heatwave gripped southern Europe on June 30, prompting authorities to issue health and wildfire warnings as temperatures are expected to soar again. France, Italy, Portugal and Spain have been sweltering for several days as the mercury climbed to 44 degrees Celsius in some places. “This is unprecedented,” Agnes Pannier-Runacher, France’s ecology transition minister said as […]
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Tue 01 July 2025: Total air passenger demand around the globe was up 5% in May 2025 on a yearly basis, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said on Monday. Total air capacity, measured in available seat kilometers, was also up 5% over the same period. The load factor was at 83.4% in May, down […]
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Fri 27 June 2025: US President Donald Trump has said the United States signed a trade deal with China on Wednesday, without disclosing the details. “Well, we just signed with China yesterday, right? Just signed with China,” Trump said at the One Big Beautiful Bill Event at the White House on Thursday. “In the China […]
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Thu 26 June 2025: US President Donald Trump has launched a sharp attack on Zohran Mamdani, the Muslim Democratic candidate and outspoken supporter of Palestine, following his victory in the party’s primary for New York City mayor, describing him as an “extreme communist” and a “communist lunatic”. In a post published on Truth Social on Wednesday, Trump […]
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Thu 26 June 2025: An estimated 142,000 millionaires are set to relocate to a new country this year, with the UK set to lose a record 16,500 in the coming 12 months, according to a report. With a decade of poor economy performance and sweeping tax reforms introduced by the Conservative and Labour government, affluent […]
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