Wed 06 March 2024: UK finance minister Jeremy Hunt announced new tax cuts Wednesday as the ruling Conservatives try to haul back support from a resurgent Labour Party before this year’s general election. These are the main measures in a highly political budget designed to persuade voters to stick with the Tories rather than return […]
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Wed 06 March 2024: Western leaders are “playing with fire” by discussing the possibility of sending European troops to Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. “The French president is discussing the idea of sending a foreign contingent. They are all playing with fire,” Peskov said on the sidelines of the World Youth Festival, […]
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Wed 06 March 2024: Front-runner and former US President Donald Trump is the only contender left in the race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 after Nikki Haley officially ended her campaign. Haley expressed gratitude to people who supported her presidential campaign at an address to a group of supporters in Charleston, South Carolina, […]
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Wed 06 March 2024: Farmers in India are resuming their march to the national capital New Delhi to press the government to guarantee a minimum support price for all crops besides other demands. “People from several states will start moving to Delhi from today,” Gurlal Singh Mann, a farm representative told Anadolu. Dozens of farmers’ […]
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Wed 06 March 2024: The war in Sudan threatens to trigger “the world’s largest hunger crisis”, a United Nations agency has warned. The World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday that more than 25 million people scattered across Sudan, South Sudan and Chad are “trapped in a spiral” of food insecurity. However, the brutal civil war […]
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Wed 06 March 2024: Two of the three people specifically singled out by the New York Times in an expose about rape during the October 7 attacks were not in fact victims of sexual assault, according to a report by the Intercept news organisation. A spokesperson for Kibbutz Be’eri, which the Times identified as the […]
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Wed 06 March 2024: Retired Canadian judge Andre Denis has been asked by Pope Francis to look into sexual assault allegations against the Archbishop of Quebec, according to media reports Monday. The allegations against Cardinal Gerald Lacroix stem from two incidents allegedly involving him that reportedly occurred in 1987 and 1988 in Quebec City in […]
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Tue 05 March 2024: Tuesday saw Bitcoin reach an all-time high, ending a more than two-year slump that had raised concerns about the long-term viability of the whole cryptocurrency industry. Bitcoin traded above $69,000 Tuesday morning, topping the previous record of $68,789 reached on November 10, 2021, according to CoinMarketCap. “Bitcoin reclaiming its all-time high yet […]
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Tue 05 March 2024: Palestinian group, Hamas, on Tuesday rejected accusations by a UN Special envoy for its fighters of sexually assaulting Israeli women during its 7 October cross-border attack into Israel, Anadolu Agency reports. Pramila Patten, the UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, said in a report on Monday that there are “reasonable grounds […]
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Tue 05 March 2024: French legislators on Monday voted to explicitly enshrine access to abortion in the Constitution, making their country the first in the world to do so. At total of 780 deputies and senators approved the introduction into Article 34 of the Constitution the sentence: “The law determines the conditions under which the […]
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