Wed 19 March 2025: A SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore safely splashed down off the coast of Florida on Tuesday after they spent more than nine months aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Also on board were NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, who returned […]
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Wed 19 March 2025: Audi, a brand of German automaker Volkswagen Group, announced Monday that it will lay off 7,500 jobs in Germany in areas such as management and development until 2029, according to a press release by the firm. “The economic conditions are becoming increasingly tougher, competitive pressure and political uncertainties are presenting the […]
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Wed 19 March 2025: The US National Archives released around 80,000 pages of declassified records late Tuesday related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) following an executive order by President Donald Trump. The documents, which have been uploaded to a portal maintained by the National Archives, are part of a long-awaited […]
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Tue 18 March 2025: The White House said Tuesday that an ongoing call between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is “going well” as the two nations seek to hammer out a deal to pause the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine for at least 30 days, and improve bilateral relations. The highly-anticipated call […]
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Tue 18 March 2025: Crimes and offences of racist, xenophobic and anti-religious nature rose by 11 percent in France last year, the country’s interior ministry reported. The report mentions 9,350 incidents and 6,985 fines in 2024, with the police recording “more than 16,000 racist, xenophobic or anti-religious offences across the country” that year, Middle East […]
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Mon 17 March 2025: NASA announced that astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will return to Earth tomorrow evening aboard a SpaceX spacecraft. American astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams, who have been stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) for over nine months, are finally returning to Earth. NASA stated that the two astronauts will be brought back tomorrow evening on a […]
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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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