Wed 11 December 2024: One in 160 people were estimated to be homeless in England on a given night this year, new research from Shelter has suggested. The charity said its research into people living in temporary accommodation, sleeping on the streets and living in hostels is “the most comprehensive overview of recorded homelessness in England”. But its […]
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Wed 11 December 2024: Transport services in Italy and France are set to face significant disruptions as workers launch a series of strikes over economic policies and labor rights, with the protests coinciding with the holiday travel season. In Italy, a 24-hour general strike scheduled for Dec. 13 will impact airline, rail, and public transport […]
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Wed 11 December 2024: A newly-published research on Tuesday shed a light on widespread anti-Muslim bias in British media with GB News accounted for half of UK news channels coverage about Muslims and Islam, much of it with negative portrayals. Following a two-year analysis, the research produced by the Centre for Media Monitoring (CFMM) showed […]
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Tue 10 December 2024: A court in Italy has ruled that Germany must pay an additional €4 million ($4.2 million) in compensation to relatives of those killed in a Nazi massacre in the village of Pietransieri during World War II, bringing the total compensation amount to €15 million ($15.8 million). An appeals court in L’Aquila, […]
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Tue 10 December 2024: The companies have asked an appeals court to temporarily block the law that would enforce a ban on the app in the United States. China-based ByteDance and its short-video app TikTok have asked an appeals court to temporarily block a law that would require that parent company ByteDance divest TikTok by January […]
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Mon 09 December 2024: The US’ oldest dictionary, Merriam-Webster, a direct descendant of the pioneering 1806 dictionary by Noah Webster, has picked “polarization” as the word of 2024. The dictionary said on its website that the term was widely used in US media during the presidential election to highlight divisions in society. It also reflected […]
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Mon 09 December 2024: Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has announced that the United States will provide nearly $1bn in additional military aid to war-torn Ukraine, as it attempts to fend off an ongoing Russian invasion. In unveiling the aid package on Saturday, Austin offered some pointed remarks aimed at the incoming administration of US […]
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Sat 07 December 2024: House prices in the UK increased by 4.8% at an annualized pace in November, the fastest rate of growth in two years, according to Halifax data on Friday. On a monthly basis, house prices rose 1.3% in November, marking the largest monthly rise since June 2022. The average property price rose […]
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Sta 07 December 2024: The intelligence partners of the “Five Eyes” have warned about the radicalisation of young people online, the news agency Reuters reported on Thursday (Dec 5) citing a research paper from the alliance. The Five Eyes, which includes the United States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, said in the paper that […]
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Fri 06 December 2024: With around 1.1 billion tourists travelled internationally in the first nine months of 2024, international tourism has reached 98 percent of the figures prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, according to the United Nations tourism agency (UN Tourism). In its Tourism Barometer report issued on Wednesday, the […]
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