Wed 21 May 2025: Statement from Biden’s office comes after US President Donald Trump expressed doubt over timing of diagnosis. Former United States President Joe Biden was not diagnosed with prostate cancer before last week, and received his “last known” blood test for the disease more than a decade ago, his office has said. The […]
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Tue 20 May 2025: The EU approved on Tuesday its 17th sanctions package against Russia. “The EU has approved its 17th sanctions package against Russia, targeting nearly 200 shadow fleet ships,” the bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas announced on X. She added that new measures also address “hybrid threats and human rights.” Underlining that […]
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Tue 20 May 2025: The Russian president is said to have denied Kadyrov’s request. The health of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who earlier this month sought to resign, is deteriorating rapidly, sources and observers have told Al Jazeera. But Russian President Vladimir Putin does not want Kadyrov to be succeeded by his third son, they […]
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Mon 19 May 2025: After more than two hours, the call between Trump and Putin is over, according to Russian state media. The Russian president described the talks as “substantive, candid and very useful,” the RIA Novosti news agency said. He also “expressed gratitude to Trump for the US role in resuming direct negotiations between […]
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Mon 19 May 2025: The founder of the Telegram messaging app, Pavel Durov, said he refused a request by the head of France’s intelligence service to ban Romanian conservative voices ahead of the country’s elections. Romania’s centrist Bucharest mayor, Nicusor Dan, won the presidential election on Sunday in a shock upset over a hard-right, nationalist rival who had pledged to […]
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Mon 19 May 2025: Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, has been placed on leave until an investigation conducted by the UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) is completed. “The investigation into alleged misconduct by the Prosecutor is conducted by the OIOS upon request by the […]
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Sun 18 May 2025: A large-scale prisoner exchange involving 1,000 captives each from Ukraine and Russia may take place next week, Ukrainian intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov said Saturday following peace negotiations in Istanbul. “I hope it will happen next week,” Budanov told Ukrainian broadcaster TSN. “There will be an exchange — whoever we can take, we will take. And give it back in the same way,” […]
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Sun 18 May 2025: A next-generation smart bandage developed by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) can analyze fluids from chronic wounds and detect infections days in advance. This “skin laboratory” is designed to accelerate wound healing and continuously monitor the patient. Led by Wei Gao, the team demonstrated in 2023 through animal studies that the bandage could […]
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Sun 18 May 2025: One in 12 British women and girls are victims of violence every year and the Government will struggle to keep its promise to cut numbers by half, according to a report. The shocking findings were published in a report on Friday by the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee. Anna Dixon, […]
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Sat 17 May 2025: More than 295 million people faced acute hunger in 2024, with the outlook ‘bleak’ due to funding cuts for aid efforts. Global hunger hit a new high last year with the outlook for 2025 “bleak,” according to a United Nations-backed report. Acute food insecurity and child malnutrition rose for a sixth […]
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