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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Sat 11 January 2025: Global economic growth is projected to remain at 2.8 percent in 2025, unchanged from last year, according to a UN report released on Thursday. Despite falling inflation, improving labor market conditions, and monetary easing, global growth is predicted to remain below the pace seen before the pandemic, and the world economy […]
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Fri 10 January 2025: Ukraine’s Finance Ministry announced on Friday that it has secured 3 billion euros (about 3.09 billion U.S. dollars) from the European Union (EU) backed by the revenues of the frozen Russian assets. The funds are part of the EU’s contribution to the Group of Seven (G7) Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration for Ukraine […]
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Fri 10 January 2025: The Met Office on Thursday issued fresh snow and ice warnings as temperatures across the UK are expected to plummet to as low as -16C in some areas. The cold snap is set to bring hazardous conditions, with several regions on high alert. A yellow warning for snow and ice remains […]
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Fri 10 January 2025: Thousands of homes have been destroyed by nearly a half-dozen wildfires tearing through Los Angeles communities Thursday evening as the grim death toll was confirmed to have risen to 10. The remains of two victims of the Palisades Fire were found as authorities continue their search, multiple news outlets quoted the […]
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Fri 10 January 2025: US tech billionaire Elon Musk on Thursday reiterated his strong support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party ahead of the Feb. 23 general elections in Germany. “If you are unhappy with the situation, you must vote for change. And that is why I’m really strongly recommending that people vote […]
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Fri 10 January 2025: Europena Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says that Greenland’s sovereignty must be respected. Russia is closely monitoring Donald Trump’s territorial claims to Greenland, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has said, after the US president-elect refused to rule out the possibility of using military force to acquire the Danish territory. “We are […]
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Thu 09 January 2025: The number of right-wing extremist crimes in Germany reached a new high last year, local media reported on Monday. By Nov. 30, 2024, police had registered 33,963 “politically motivated, right-wing crimes,” reported the RND media group, citing a response from the Interior Ministry to an inquiry by the parliamentary fraction of […]
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