Thu 13 February 2025: Some 28 people were injured when a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker drove a car into a crowd of people in Munich in what the state premier said was probably an attack on Thursday, as the German city prepared to host a top-level security conference. Police in the southern city said a […]
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Thu 13 February 2025: The suspension of foreign aid programs by US President Donald Trump puts 6.3 million people at risk of dying from HIV and AIDS over the next four years, a UN organization dealing with the viral disease warned on Friday. “There is still a lot of confusion… about how the waiver will […]
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Thu 13 February 2025: Half of Generation Z in the UK believe Britain is a racist country while only four in 10 young Brits say they are proud of their country, according to a newly published survey. Only 11% of Gen Z, age 18-27, said they would fight for Britain and 41% said there were […]
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Wed 12 February 2025: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he had a “lengthy and highly productive” conversation with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. “We discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, Energy, Artificial Intelligence, the power of the Dollar, and various other subjects,” Trump said on Truth Social. He said they each talked about the […]
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Wed 12 February 2025: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday said that he plans to offer a territorial exchange to Moscow if US President Donald Trump manages to organize negotiations with Russia. In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, Zelenskyy said that his country could give up territory it has controlled in Russia’s border region of Kursk, where Kyiv launched an incursion just over six […]
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Tue 11 February 2025: Google Calendar no longer shows the start dates for Black History Month, Pride Month, Women’s History Month, and other events. The company’s calendar used to mark those days in early February, March, and June but they are absent in 2025. A Google spokesperson, Madison Cushman Veld, provided the Guardian with a statement that […]
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Wed 12 February 2025: The FBI discovered about 2,400 records tied to US President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination, according to a report by Axios on Monday. The still-secret records are contained in 14,000 pages of documents the FBI found in a review prompted by President Donald Trump’s Jan. 23 executive order to release all […]
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Tue 11 February 2025: Pope Francis has criticised Trump’s push to carry out what the US president has called the largest deportation operation in US history. In a letter to US bishops, the pope affirmed the right of people to seek shelter and safety in other lands and said he was concerned with what is going on […]
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Tue 11 February 2025: Swedish police said that eight out of ten people killed in the attack on a school in the city of Orebro are of migrant origins and the other two are Swedish citizens. Stockholm police told Anadolu news agency that the perpetrator of the attack, Rickard Andersson, is a 35-year-old Swedish citizen, “suffered from […]
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Tue 11 February 2025: Following an executive order by US President Donald Trump aimed at the suspension of foreign aid, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) said food products worth $489 million are at risk of spoiling. “Recent widespread staffing reductions across the agency … coupled with uncertainty about the scope of foreign […]
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