Tue 26 March 2024: The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed after a container ship ran into it. Media reports said that the vessel crashed into the bridge at about 1:30am on Tuesday, catching fire before sinking. Kevin Cartwright, of the Baltimore Fire Department, says up to 20 people are feared to be in the […]
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Tue 26 March 2024: Like the US and the UK, New Zealand has accused Beijing of malicious cyberactivity by claiming that state-sponsored hackers from China attacked parliament. New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters said Tuesday that the cyberattack was “unacceptable” and that his country’s concerns had been conveyed directly to Beijing. “Foreign interference of this […]
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Tue 26 March 2024: European Union regulators have opened investigations into Apple, Alphabet’s Google and Meta, in the first cases under a sweeping digital law designed to stop Big Tech companies from cornering digital markets. The European Commission, the 27-nation bloc’s executive, said on Monday that it was investigating the companies for “non-compliance” with the Digital […]
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Mon 25 March 2024: US presidential candidate Donald Trump says he would have reacted the same way Israel did after Hamas’s October 7 attacks but Israel is losing international support and should wrap up its war in Gaza. Trump told the Israeli newspaper Hayom in an interview that Hamas’s attacks were “one of the saddest […]
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Mon 25 March 2024: Senegal’s ruling coalition candidate Amadou Ba congratulates his rival Bassirou Diomaye Faye on winning the presidential election in the first round, the ruling coalition said Monday. Results trickling in since polls closed on Sunday evening in the first round of a delayed presidential election suggested Faye, 44, may have clinched an […]
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Mon 25 March 2024: The United Nations Security Council has demanded an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza and the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages as the United States abstained from the vote. The remaining 14 council members voted for the resolution on Monday. Speaking after the vote, […]
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Mon 25 March 2024: On Monday, March 25, medical professors in South Korea declared that they will cut back on their practice hours in support of medical students who have been on strike for more than a month. The government’s plan to boost medical school admissions has been met with protests from the trainee doctors. […]
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Mon 25 March 2024: France on Sunday (Mar 24) announced that it will be escalating its terror alert warning to the highest level. This decision, as per Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, has been taken in response to the recent shootings in Moscow. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Attal stated that the move, which […]
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Mon 25 March 2024: Oil prices increased on Monday amid global supply concerns supported by heightened geopolitical risks. International benchmark Brent crude traded at $85.21 per barrel at 10.29 a.m. local time (0729 GMT), a 0.45% rise from the closing price of $84.83 per barrel in the previous trading session. The American benchmark West Texas […]
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Mon 25 March 2024: UN experts on Friday expressed alarm about increasing reports of trafficking in persons, particularly women and girls, for purposes of sexual exploitation, as well as child recruitment in hostilities in Sudan. As the humanitarian crisis already caused the mass displacement of over 9 million people, the experts said in a statement […]
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