Fri 24 January 2025: Solar power overtook coal in Europe’s electricity mix for the first time in 2024 while gas declined for the fifth year in a row, energy think tank Ember said in a report on Thursday. “Driven by expanding wind and solar power, renewables have risen from a share of 34 percent in […]
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Sat 25 January 2025: – UN human rights office spokesperson warns any attack on Goma ‘risks catastrophic impacts on hundreds of thousands of civilians’ GENEVA The UN refugee agency on Friday said it is “gravely” concerned about the safety and security of civilians and internally displaced people (IDPs) in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, […]
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Fri 24 January 2025: Hamas today released the names of four Israeli captives it is due to release tomorrow under the terms of the ceasefire deal. Al-Qassam Brigades spokesperson, Abu Obeidah, said Karina Ariev, Liri Albag, Naama Levy and Guy Gilboa-Dalal would be returned to Israel. The Yedioth Ahronoth daily said the three women and […]
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Fri 24 January 2025: French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a project to “mobilize” more young volunteers to boost the ranks of the country’s military amid the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. During an address to the armed forces on Monday, Macron explained the move by the need for France to adapt to an “accumulation […]
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Floral tributes left by members of the public are seen following the fatal knife attack on three young girls in July Fri 24 January 2025: Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana will likely spend the rest of his life in jail for murdering three girls. A teenager who murdered three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance […]
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Fri 24 January 2025: US President Donald Trump said Thursday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is “ready to negotiate a deal” to resolve the war waged by Russia. “He’s ready to negotiate a deal. They’d like to stop. He’s somebody that lost a lot of soldiers, and so did Russia,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “Russia lost […]
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Fri 24 January 2025: The International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan Thursday sought arrest warrants for Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, and Afghanistan’s interim Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani. Khan said his office filed two applications for warrants of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber II of the ICC over the situation in the war-torn nation. […]
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Fri 24 January 2025: Saudi Arabia on Thursday said it is planning to expand its investments and trade with the United States by an amount of $600 billion and possibly beyond over the next four years. This came during the first phone call between the kingdom’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and US President Donald […]
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Thu 23 January 2025: Head of transitional government makes request to EU central bank’s chief on sidelines of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus sought the assistance of European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde on Wednesday to recover billions of dollars stolen during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s regime. “Some […]
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Thu 23 January 2025: US president orders aid agency to cut ties with entities that have paid rebel group or opposed efforts to counter it. United States President Donald Trump has set in motion a process to redesignate Yemen’s Houthis as a “foreign terrorist organisation”, the White House has said. Trump’s executive order signed on […]
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