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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The strikes in the Odessa region were carried out not far from the Transnistrian section of the Moldovan-Ukrainian border. Mon 08 May 2023: Russian missiles have hit several cities across Ukraine overnight, killing at least one person and injuring five, Ukrainian authorities have said. “The Russian Federation (also) launched 16 missile strikes last night, in […]
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Sun 07 May 2023: The head of the Wagner group has said he has been promised as much ammunition and weaponry as he needs to continue his assault on the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. Yevgeny Prigozhin made the comment in a recorded message posted on his Telegram channel on Sunday morning. It comes just days after he […]
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Sun 07 May 2023: Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has called for the release of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during his trip to London. The left-wing leader was in the city to attend the coronation of King Charles III. Assange is currently locked up in the Belmarsh Prison, located in southeast London. […]
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