Wed 07 February 2024: It’s another day of farmers’ protests and debates over the future of agriculture in Europe. From Spain to Bulgaria, farmers want to have their voices heard. Meanwhile, the European parliament is debating empowering farmers and rural communities. A group of farmers held a demonstration Tuesday outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, angry […]
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Wed 07 February 2024: A Japanese defense and aviation company on Tuesday announced it is ending a strategic cooperation pact with Israeli military tech company Elbit Systems in the wake of last month’s interim International Court of Justice ruling on Israel. “We have currently suspended any new activities related to the memorandum of understanding and […]
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Wed 07 February 2024: Ukraine on Tuesday said it nationalized assets belonging to a Russian oligarch worth $13.2 million. The State Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said in a statement that all of Eduard Khudainatov’s shares in the Alliance-Ukraine Oil Company LLC, which it said is estimated at almost 500 million Ukrainian hryvnias, was directed […]
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Tue 06 February 2024: Kenya’s High Court in Malindi charged cult leader Paul Mackenzie on Tuesday with the murders of 191 children whose bodies were unearthed from the Shakahola forest. Survivors and victims’ families have said Paul Mackenzie urged followers to fast in order to “go see Jesus”. Mackenzie and 29 other defendants rejected the […]
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Tue 06 February 2024: US President, Joe Biden, reportedly called Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a “bad f-cking guy”, amid growing frustrations and tensions between the two over Tel Aviv’s ongoing war on the Gaza Strip. According to a report by Politico, unnamed sources who spoke to Biden recently said that the President has grown increasingly suspicious of […]
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Tue 06 February 2024: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol granted special pardon to over 450,000 people, including a former defense minister and presidential chief of staff, local media reported on Tuesday. The presidential order came on the occasion of Lunar New Year to be marked on Saturday, Feb. 10 this year. Among those pardoned […]
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Tue 06 February 2024: Dakar, Senegal – Plateau, the downtown Dakar neighbourhood that is home to the country’s National Assembly, was tense but quiet on Monday morning. Inside parliament, the assembly was anything but. Lawmakers were debating on President Macky Sall’s announcement to postpone general elections – originally scheduled for February 25 – for an additional […]
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Tue 06 February 2024: The UK has announced plans to invest more than 100 million pounds ($125 million) in artificial intelligence (AI) research and training. In line with plans unveiled on Tuesday, the government would establish nine new AI research hubs around the United Kingdom, fund studies looking into the ethical application of AI in […]
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Mon 05 February 2024: The Kremlin on Monday warned that the seizure of Russia’s assets by Western countries, believed to be worth $300 billion that were frozen after Moscow launched its “special military operation” in Ukraine in February 2022, will be challenged in court. “If such decisions are made, they will be deeply illegal. They […]
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Mon 05 February 2024: Global same-store sales – or sales at restaurants open at least a year – rose 3.4 percent in the October-December period last year, well below the 4.7 percent increase Wall Street was expecting, according to analysts polled by FactSet. Customers in the Middle East were angered after McDonald’s Israel – which […]
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