Fri 27 December 2024: The estimated net worth of Elon Musk, the owner or founder of seven companies, including electric car giant Tesla, aerospace firm SpaceX and social media platform X, surpassed $400 billion this week, marking a new milestone for the world’s richest person. After Tesla and SpaceX’s shares hit record-high levels, Musk’s wealth […]
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The team used machines to unearth graves, but used hand tools once coffins were located. (Supplied) Fri 27 December 2024: Archaeologists have completed the largest mass exhumation in Australian history from an old cemetery, which led to the discovery of almost 2,000 bodies that were believed to have been moved from the old graveyard over […]
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Fri 27 December 2024: The holiday season is here, and streets are filled with festive sparkles, twinkling lights and cheerful Christmas songs. While many of us are looking forward to spending the holiday period with family and friends, Christmas is anything but jolly for others. Some people are dreading to spend the period without loved […]
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Fri 27 December 2024: Russian companies have started using Bitcoin and other digital assets in international payments, the Russian finance minister said on Wednesday. In a statement to the Russian state channel Rossiya-24, Anton Siluanov said that Bitcoins mined in Russia can be used in the experimental process for international payments, and such payments have […]
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Fri 27 December 2024: At least 10,457 people perished while trying to reach Spain’s coasts irregularly in 2024, migration NGO Caminando Fronteras said Thursday. This makes 2024 the deadliest year in Spain’s modern migration history, according to the group. It also reaffirms Spain as having one of the world’s deadliest migration routes. Each day, an […]
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Thu 26 December 2024: Senior Azerbaijani officials on Thursday confirmed to Anadolu the validity of earlier media reports suggesting that an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash near the Kazakh city of Aktau on Wednesday was caused by a Russian missile system. This came after Azerbaijani media, citing government sources, reported that the preliminary results of the […]
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Thu 26 December 2024: In Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film Dr Strangelove, the world teeters on the edge of nuclear annihilation, not because of some grand strategic masterstroke by a villain, but due to paranoia, hubris and the failure to interrogate our own assumptions. The war room is filled with men so consumed by ideology and self-interest […]
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Thu 26 December 2024: More than 200,000 homes across Bosnia and Herzegovina were without electricity for a second day on Wednesday, authorities said, after a snowstorm the day before caused widespread disruption across several Balkan countries. Mainly in northwestern and central Bosnia, towns and villages suffered ongoing power outages, the country’s two power utilities said. The snowfall had stopped on Wednesday, […]
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Thu 26 December 2024: US President Joe Biden vowed Wednesday to bolster Ukraine militarily against Russia after its overnight aerial attacks. “I have directed the Department of Defense to continue its surge of weapons deliveries to Ukraine, and the United States will continue to work tirelessly to strengthen Ukraine’s position in its defense against Russian […]
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Wed 25 December 2024: United States President-elect Donald Trump has promised to step up the use of the death penalty during his second term in office, saying he will go after “rapists, murderers, and monsters”. Trump’s announcement on Tuesday came after outgoing President Joe Biden used his presidential pardon powers to reduce the sentences of nearly […]
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