Mon 17 March 2025: US officials expressed optimism Sunday that a Ukraine-Russia ceasefire deal could be reached in “weeks,” as President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are expected to discuss a possible truce. The United States this week proposed a halt in fighting in the three-year war after talks in Saudi Arabia, which Kyiv accepted. Washington and Kyiv’s European […]
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Mon 17 March 2025: The Swedish government has decided to ban smartphones in schools. Swedish Minister of Education Lotta Edholm announced in a press conference that smartphones would be banned in primary and secondary schools nationwide. Based on scientific research, Edholm stated that students would feel better in class without their phones. She explained that smartphones distract students and […]
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Mon 17 March 2025: US President Donald Trump said more key files, including those related to convicted pedophile and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy, will be released soon. In an interview on Sunday on the Full Measure news program, Trump said: “The Kennedy records are getting out. […]
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Sun 16 March 2025: All full-time staff at Voice of America (VOA), the largest US government-funded international broadcaster, were informed Saturday that they had been placed on administrative leave. Crystal G. Thomas, human resources director at the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the agency overseeing VOA and other state-funded news organizations, sent an email […]
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Sun 16 March 2025: A majority of voters are unhappy with the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) handling of federal workers, according to a new poll. When asked about “the way Elon Musk and DOGE are dealing with workers employed by the federal government,” 60 percent of respondents in the Quinnipiac University poll of registered […]
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Sun 16 March 2025: Up to 30,000 jobs could be cut as part of Labour’s plan to overhaul the NHS, it was reported on Friday. The figure is far higher than the 10,000 roles set to be axed by abolishing NHS England, The Daily Mail reported. When steep cost-cutting elsewhere is added to closing down […]
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Sun 16 March 2025: According to a New York Times report, the travel ban could affect at least 40 countries United States President Donald Trump‘s administration is mulling a new travel ban that is expected to affect citizens from dozens of countries to varying degrees, The New York Times reported. Quoting anonymous officials, the report published […]
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Image is for illustration purpose. Sat 15 March 2025: The intense race in artificial intelligence has now extended into the robotics field, driven by companies like Google, OpenAI, and Tesla, which are working to integrate AI with the physical world. One of Google’s subsidiaries, DeepMind, introduced two AI models specifically designed for robots: Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER. According to the […]
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Sat 15 March 2025: Weakness in sentiment reflects a deterioration in expectations for the future across multiple facets of the economy, including personal finances, employment, inflation. Consumer sentiment in the United States has plunged to a nearly two-and-a-half-year low, and inflation expectations have soared amid worries that President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, which have ignited […]
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Image is for illustration purpose only. Sat 15 March 2025: In the U.S. state of Tennessee, a man was injured when his dog accidentally fired a gun while he was lying in bed. Jerald Kirkwood, who lives in Memphis, told police that his dog accidentally shot the gun while he was lying in bed. According to local media reports, Kirkwood’s […]
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