Fri 10 January 2025: The US House of Representatives has voted to sanction the International Criminal Court to protest its issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister over Israel’s carnage in besieged Gaza. The vote on Thursday was 243 to 140 in favour of the “Illegitimate Court Counteraction […]
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Fri 10 January 2025: The global warming limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius (34.7 degrees Fahrenheit) set by countries was surpassed in 2024, the hottest year on record, according to a report. “2024 had a global average temperature of 15.10°C,” EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said in a report on Friday. It stressed: “2024 was […]
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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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Thu 09 January 2025: Lebanon’s newly elected President, Joseph Aoun, called Thursday for a comprehensive defence policy to counter Israeli assaults and for dialogue with neighbouring Syria, Anadolu Agency reports. Aoun was elected by the Lebanese parliament on Thursday, ending over two years of political vacuum since President Michel Aoun left office in October 2022. “I invite […]
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Thu 09 January 2025: Headteachers have warned that schools and colleges will be forced to make cuts if costs continue to outstrip the growth in school funding. In their annual report on education spending in England, the Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates that mainstream school funding per pupil will grow by 2.8% in cash terms […]
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Thu 09 January 2025: The number of untraceable privately-made “ghost guns” recovered at crime scenes surged nearly 1,600% between 2017 and 2023, according to the results of a new federal gun trafficking study released on Wednesday. The study’s results, announced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), come after President Joe Biden and Attorney […]
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Thu 09 January 2025: Germany on Thursday dismissed efforts by US President-elect Donald Trump to press NATO members to spend a staggering 5% of the gross domestic product on defense – more than double the military pact’s current spending target. “What Donald Trump is proposing is unrealistic. We won’t end up with 5%,” Vice Chancellor […]
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Thu 09 January 2025: At least 70 more Palestinians were killed in relentless Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, bringing the overall death toll since October 2023 to 46,006, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Thursday. A ministry statement added that some 109,378 others were injured in the ongoing assault. “Israeli forces killed […]
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Wed 08 January 2025: NASA has announced revisions to its Mars Sample Return Program, aiming to simplify the mission, reduce costs, and expedite the timeline for bringing Martian soil samples to Earth. The initial plan, which involved multiple spacecraft, is being restructured to address technical and financial challenges. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said Tuesday that the agency is now considering […]
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