Mon 06 January 2025: Russia claimed on Monday that its forces had captured the city of Kurakhove, a key Ukrainian stronghold and supply hub in the Donetsk region. The Russian Defense Ministry, in a statement, said the settlement was defended by some 15,000 Ukrainian troops. “The liberation of Kurakhove deprived the Kyiv regime of the […]
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Mon 06 January 2025: Opposition parties called for a significant increase in addiction funding in Scotland after it emerged that more than 1,500 drug-addicted babies have been born in recent years. The Scottish Liberal Democrats said data from the country’s health boards showed that around 200 babies were born each year with neonatal abstinence syndrome […]
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Mon 06 January 2025: Chinese automaker giant BYD surpassed US rival Tesla by delivering approximately 600,000 battery-powered vehicles between October and December. According to both companies’ production and sales results for the year 2024, Tesla delivered 495,570 electric vehicles (EVs) during the fourth quarter, while BYD delivered 595,413 units. However, for the whole year, BYD […]
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Sun 05 January 2025: – According to Dignity in Dying, a campaigning group, the bill allows people ‘to live life in the knowledge that none of us will be forced to suffer as we die’ – ‘We are hugely concerned that changing law would put pressure on vulnerable people to end their lives prematurely,’ the […]
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Sun 05 January 2025: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz condemned Elon Musk’s “erratic” comments and his open support for the extreme-right AfD party in an interview published Saturday. The world’s wealthiest man — who owns social media platform X — has in a string of posts attacked several European leaders and ruffled feathers on the continent. […]
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Sun 05 January 2025: Artificial intelligence (AI) could significantly influence users’ decision-making processes by analyzing “intention, behavior, and psychological data,” according to a study published Monday. The research, conducted by Britain’s Cambridge University’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, explores a new digital market known as the “intention economy.” This model is designed to […]
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Sun 05 January 2025: A Fox News report fuelled the spread of misinformation online – including a claim the suspect was an illegal immigrant. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the 42-year-old suspected driver in the New Year’s truck attack in New Orleans, was a United States citizen and US Army veteran. But within hours of the attack – […]
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Sat 04 January 2025: Overcrowding in French prisons is worsening each month, with new government figures revealed that facilities are housing nearly 81,000 inmates in spaces designed for about 62,000 people – forcing thousands to sleep on floor mattresses. Justice Ministry data for December 2024 puts the overall prison occupancy rate at 129.5 percent, RFI […]
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Sat 04 January 2025: The United Kingdom lost about 37 shops a day during 2024 in yet another brutal year for the high street, data suggested. Almost 13,500 retail stores closed for good in the last 12 months, a rise of 28% on 2023 – although the losses were below the levels seen each year […]
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Sat 04 January 2025: Whenever school holidays loom, many parents find themselves caught in an emotional tug-of-war: on the one hand, relief at bidding farewell to homework battles, bedtime struggles, and the lamenting of lost lunchboxes; on the other, terror at the daunting prospect of a barrage of “whys” and “buts” from their relentless interrogators. […]
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