APPLE, GOOGLE IN TALKS TO BRING GEMINI AI TO IPHONES: BLOOMBERG

Mon 18 March 2024: Tech giant Apple is in negotiations with Google to introduce the Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) engine to iPhones, a Bloomberg report said on Monday. According to the report, the iPhone maker recently also had discussions with OpenAI, the developer of the immensely popular ChatGPT, for a possible licensing of their AI […]

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PUTIN CEMENTS RUSSIAN RULE FOR ANOTHER SIX YEARS AFTER LANDSLIDE VICTORY WITH NO SERIOUS COMPETITION

Mon 18 March 2023: President Vladimir Putin won a record post-Soviet landslide in Russia’s election on Sunday, cementing his already tight grip on power in a victory he said showed Moscow had been right to stand up to the West and send its troops into Ukraine, Reuters reported. Putin, a former KGB lieutenant colonel who […]

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EXIT POLLS SHOW PUTIN LEADING WITH 87% IN THE RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Sun 17 March 2024: Russian President Vladimir Putin is leading with 87% of the vote in Russia’s presidential contest, according to exit poll results released by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center, According to the center, Nikolai Kharitonov of the Communist Party is in second place with 4.6%. The head of the Liberal Democratic Party […]

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AMERICANS TO FACE ‘BLOODBATH’ IF HE IS NOT REELECTED, SAYS FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP

Sun 17 March 2024: Former US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that there would be a “bloodbath” in the country if he is not reelected in the upcoming presidential election. Speaking to his supporters during a rally at Dayton International Airport in Vandalia, Ohio, Trump touched on “the possibility of an increasing trade war […]

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NIGER SUSPENDS MILITARY COOPERATION WITH US “WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT”

Sun 17 March 2024: In a setback to US security interests in the region, Niger terminated its military deal with the US “with immediate effect,” according to Colonel Amadou Abdramane, the government military spokesman. The agreement allowed US military personnel and civilian defense professionals to conduct operations from Niger, which is home to a significant […]

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‘WE WANT SONKO’: SENEGAL OPPOSITION BOOSTED AFTER LEADERS FREED BEFORE VOTE

Sat 16 March 2024: Celebrations broke out among Senegal’s opposition supporters after two of their top leaders were freed from jail 10 days before the country’s delayed presidential election. Firebrand politician Ousmane Sonko and his close aide Bassirou Diomaye Faye were released late on Thursday in a move that could boost the opposition’s chance to win in the March 24 […]

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