Mon 13 January 2025: More than 500,000 patients in the UK experienced trolley waits of at least 12 hours at accident and emergency (A&E) services last year, a new research showed on Monday. Corridor care in hospitals is being “normalized” at hospitals, warned the research conducted by the Liberal Democrats, as it emerged there were […]
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Mon 13 January 2025: US President Joe Biden has awarded Pope Francis the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction, the highest civilian honor granted by the president. The White House in a statement on Saturday said Biden bestowed the award to the pope during a phone call. It described the pontiff as “the People’s Pope […]
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Mon 13 January 2025: Images and videos purporting to show the historic Hollywood sign engulfed in flames are spreading across X and other social media platforms as wildfires rage through Los Angeles, California. But the visuals are fakes, some likely generated by artificial intelligence; the landmark had not been affected as of January 10, […]
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Mon 13 January 2025: The World Bank said that only six out of 26 countries classified as low-income are projected to reach middle-income status by 2050 if there is no sustained improvement in their growth rates. The findings come in a section published by the World Bank of the Global Economic Prospects Report, which will be released in […]
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Sun 12 January 2025: The US increased the reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to $25 million on Friday as he was sworn in for a third term in office. The Biden administration is also increasing the reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan Interior and Justice Minister Diosdado […]
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Sun 12 January 2025: The death toll in the Los Angeles wildfires has climbed to 16 as the relentless blazes continue to rage for a fifth consecutive day, authorities said. Five of the deaths were attributed to the Palisades fire and 11 resulted from the Eaton fire, the LA County medical examiner’s office confirmed. At […]
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Sun 12 January 2025: Nearly 60,000 people in England and Wales sought help as energy bills soared by 20% over the past year, according to a network of charities on Friday. Citizens Advice revealed that it supported 60,000 households struggling to cope with the spiraling cost of gas and electricity – double the figure recorded […]
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Sat 11 January 2025: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has not been invited to the Jan. 20 inauguration of incoming US President Donald Trump, an EU Commission spokesperson said on Friday. Asked by an Anadolu reporter about EU-US ties, Paula Pinho cited a social media message by von der Leyen and European Council […]
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Sat 11 January 2025: The US Supreme Court, in a hearing on Friday, appeared in favor of upholding the sell-or-ban law approved by Congress in April that restricts access to social media platform TikTok, according to multiple news outlets. The nine justices listened to oral arguments from lawyers of TikTok, who appealed against a lower […]
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Sat 11 January 2025: YouTubers and other digital content creators are selling their unused video footage to artificial intelligence (AI) companies seeking exclusive videos to better train their AI algorithms, oftentimes netting thousands of dollars per deal, Bloomberg News on Friday cited industry source. “OpenAI, Alphabet Inc.’s Google, AI media company Moonvalley and several other […]
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