Tue 26 April 2022: It may come as a surprise, but former US President Donald Trump has said that he will not be returning to Twitter. As soon as it was announced that Tesla CEO Elon Musk had successfully purchased Twitter, the social media site was flooded with tweets and memes celebrating the controversial figure’s […]
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Tue 26 April 2022: Three months into Russian invasion of Ukraine, UN agencies are struggling to reach civilians under siege in the east. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will start a difficult three-day trip to Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday amid criticism for the limited role played by the United Nations in the management of the […]
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Mon 25 April 2022: Elon Musk, a billionaire entrepreneur, has agreed to buy Twitter Inc. for $44 billion, using one of the world’s largest leveraged buyout deals to take private a 16-year-old social networking platform that has become a focal point of public debate and a flashpoint in the debate over online free speech. The […]
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Mon 25 April 2022: Twitter’s stock jumped sharply Monday on news that the firm may soon accept Elon Musk’s hostile takeover bid, a remarkable turnaround from the board’s initial “poison pill” defense to fend off the billionaire entrepreneur’s hostile takeover strategy. The acquisition, which The Wall Street Journal reported could be announced later today, would […]
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Mon 25 April 2022: The war in Ukraine has killed 215 children so far, the office of the prosecutor general said on Monday, adding that the number of wounded children stood at 391. Some 1,500 educational institutions have been damaged in Russian attacks, including 102 which were completely destroyed, according to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s […]
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Mon 25 April 2022: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday met UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Ankara. The meeting held at the Presidential Complex was closed to the press. A spokesperson for Guterres said last week that the secretary-general will have a working meeting and lunch on April 26 with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey […]
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Mon 25 April 2022: At the age of 119, a woman who was believed to be the world’s oldest died. According to the nation’s main broadcaster, Kana Tanaka, a Japanese woman, died in hospital last week. Guinness World Records verified her as the world’s oldest living person in 2019. When another Japanese woman, Chiyo Miyako, […]
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Mon 25 April 2022: President Emmanuel Macron of France has won a second term in office, defeating his far-right opponent Marine Le Pen in a runoff election by a substantial majority. On Sunday, his supporters exploded in applause when the results were projected on a huge screen near the Eiffel Tower in the Champ de […]
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Mon 25 April 2022: The US has announced new military aid for Ukraine and promised that its diplomats will return to Lviv in the coming week, as its top diplomat and defence chief completed a secretive trip to the Ukrainian capital. Blinken and Austin told Zelenskyy and his advisers that the US would provide more […]
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Sun 24 April 2022: The Moscow Patriarchate stated on Sunday that Pope Francis urged Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to unite as “true peacemakers” for Ukraine and to pray for one another. “May the Holy Spirit transform our hearts and make us true peacemakers, especially for war-torn Ukraine, so that as soon as […]
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