EXPLAINER | WHY THE WORLD’S FIVE RICHEST PEOPLE BAG MORE WEALTH AS POVERTY GAP WIDENS

  LVMH chief Bernard Arnault (middle), Amazon’s Jeff Bezos (top left), investor Warren Buffet (bottom left), Tesla CEO Elon Musk (top right) and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison (bottom right). Tue 16 January 2024: Poverty inequality across the world is exploding, with the rich hoarding a disproportionate amount of global wealth while the already vulnerable are […]

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LIONEL MESSI NAMED FIFA BEST MEN’S FOOTBALLER OF 2023

Tue 16 January 2024: Inter Miami’s Argentine superstar Lionel Messi was named the FIFA Best Men’s Footballer while Barcelona’s Aitana Bonmati was named the FIFA Best Women’s Footballer in the 2023 Best FIFA Football Awards ceremony held on Monday in London. Manchester City’s treble-winning Spanish manager Pep Guardiola bagged the 2023 FIFA Best Men’s Coach […]

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IRAN SAYS IT STRUCK ‘TERRORIST’ SITES IN SYRIA, IRAQ WITH BARRAGE OF MISSILES

Tue 16 January 2024: Iran fired a barrage of ballistic missiles at positions of “terrorist groups” in Syria and Iraq late Monday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement. The IRGC said a “spy headquarters” and a “gathering of anti-Iran terrorist groups” in Syria were destroyed with ballistic missiles, as cited by […]

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HOUTHIS TARGET US-OWNED CONTAINER SHIP OFF COAST OF YEMEN: CENTCOM

  FILE PHOTO Mon 15 January 2024: The Houthi group on Monday targeted a US-owned container ship off the coast of Yemen, the US military said. “On Jan. 15 at approximately 4 p.m. (Sanaa time), Iranian-backed Houthi militants fired an anti-ship ballistic missile from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen and struck the M/V Gibraltar Eagle, a […]

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US INFORMED THE HOUTHIS PRIOR TO THE STRIKE… AND SO THEY PREPARED: REPORT

Mon 15 January 2024: The American side alerted the Houthis before launching strikes on their sites in Yemen, last week Thursday (January 11,2024), Sky News Arabia reports. Source familiar with matter told Sky News Arabia that the United States informed the Houthis before carrying out air strikes on their sites in Yemen. American and British […]

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MASSIVE PROTESTS IN PARIS OVER FRANCE’S CONTROVERSIAL IMMIGRATION LAW

Mon 15 January 2024: Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of the French capital Paris on Sunday to protest against the government’s contentious immigration law, which was recently passed with the support of far-right lawmakers in parliament. Responding to a call from more than 400 associations, unions and political parties, they braved the cold […]

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NORTH KOREA SAYS IT TESTED SOLID-FUEL MISSILE WITH HYPERSONIC WARHEAD

Mon 15 January 2024: North Korea said it has tested a new solid-fuel missile fitted with a hypersonic warhead as it continued efforts to develop more powerful, harder-to-detect weaponry. The launch took place on Sunday afternoon and came as Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui headed to Moscow amid concerns in the United States and elsewhere […]

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