Fri 05 April 2024: Keerthi Subramanian, a shop clerk in South London, earns 10.42 pounds ($13.15) an hour. From Monday that will go up by 1.02 pounds ($1.29) to 11.44 pounds ($14.44) as a new United Kingdom minimum wage kicks in. That is not much help, she says. “At just over 10 pounds, I wasn’t […]
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Fri 05 April 2024: McDonald’s has said it will buy its 30-year-old Israel franchise from Alonyal, taking back ownership of 225 outlets that employ more than 5,000 people. The US fast-food chain has been subject to boycotts and protests since Alonyal announced shortly after the October 7 attack by Palestinian group Hamas that it would […]
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Fri 05 April 2024: In an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt, former US President Donald Trump says Israel is receiving bad press and creating negative public sentiment because of its social media strategy, which includes posting images of destruction in the Gaza Strip. The former president has long cast himself as a stalwart defender […]
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Thu 04 April 2024: Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed on Thursday claims suggesting that Russia could be targeted by “Islamic fundamentalists,” maintaining that Russia has warm relations with Muslims. Speaking at the 12th Congress of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia in Moscow, Putin said Russia enjoys amicable relations with its domestic Muslim […]
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File – IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi meets with female surveillance soldiers at an army base on the Gaza border, March 12, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces) Thu 04 April 2024: The Israeli military has designated tens of thousands of people in Gaza as assassination targets, relying on an AI targeting system […]
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Thu 04 April 2024: Taipei, Taiwan – More than half of people in Southeast Asia would side with China over the United States if forced to choose, a survey has found, underscoring Beijing’s growing influence in the region. In the State of Southeast Asia 2024 survey released this week, 50.5 percent of respondents said they would […]
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Thu 04 April 2024: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing growing political pressure to stop selling weapons to Israel after seven aid workers, including three British nationals, were killed by an Israeli air attack on Gaza. Three opposition parties and some MPs in the governing Conservative Party said on Wednesday the British government should […]
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Wed 03 April 2024: Russia announced on Wednesday, April 3, that the number of persons signing contracts to enlist in the military forces of the country has dramatically increased. According to a Reuters report, the devastating attack on a music venue outside of Moscow last month, which left at least 144 people dead, is the […]
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Wed 03 April 2024: Gaza has suffered $18.5 billion worth of damage to buildings and vital infrastructure, a joint report by the United Nations and the World Bank revealed yesterday. This, the international bodies said, is equivalent to 97 per cent of the combined GDP of the occupied West Bank and Gaza for the year […]
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Wed 03 April 2024: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a bill that envisages lowering the age of people eligible for mobilization from 27 to 25 years, the parliament’s press service reported Tuesday. The bill was adopted by the parliament in May 2023. The new legislation envisages that Ukrainian men with no prior combat experience could […]
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