Mon 01 January 2024: The upcoming BRICS summit in Russia this October is set to undergo a significant transformation as it expands its membership to include five new nations alongside the original founding five – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Saudi Arabia along with the UAE, Egypt, Iran and Ethiopia joined Brics on January […]
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Mon 01 January 2024: Pope Francis emphasized the importance of gratitude and hope at a solemn service on New Year’s Eve. The 87-year-old head of the Catholic Church led the service on Sunday and delivered the homily with the traditional hymn of praise “Te Deum” (Thee, O God) in St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. […]
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Mon 01 January 2024: A case of the chronic wasting disease in Yellowstone National Park has raised concerns of spread to humans. In what scientists call a “slow-moving disaster”, a “zombie deer disease” is spreading across the United States after a case was detected in Yellowstone National Park. The lethal disease has no cure and […]
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Mon 01 January 2024: A massive earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 has hit Ishikawa in central Japan, triggering a tsunami warning and advisories for residents to evacuate and prepare for possible aftershocks. A tsunami around 1 metre high (3.3 feet) struck parts of the west coast along the Sea of Japan, with a […]
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Mon 01 January 2024: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that his country will be stronger in the upcoming year, regardless of the obstacles it faces. “And just like last Dec. 31, today we say: ‘We do not know for certain what the new year will bring us.’ But this year we can add: ‘Whatever it […]
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Sun 31 December 2023: Hundreds of sealed court filings pertaining to the late sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein are set to be made public this week, and several prominent names — including Britain’s Prince Andrew and former President Bill Clinton — are expected to appear in the documents. Personal flight logs kept by one of Epstein’s […]
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Sun 31 December 2023: Israel’s relentless bombardment of Gaza for nearly three months has destroyed 70 percent of the homes in the besieged Palestinian enclave, according to the Government Media Office. No further details were provided but an earlier report said more than 200 heritage and archaeological sites were destroyed in the Israeli bombardment considered […]
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Sun 31 December 2023: The world economy has proved more resilient than most analysts anticipated at the start of 2023. In particular, global inflation has fallen without big surges in unemployment. But policymakers, desperate to engineer a “soft landing“, are not out of the woods yet. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), […]
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Sun 31 December 2023: The US claimed that a Chinese spycraft, which traversed above the US earlier this year, was in communication with China through the services of a US-based internet provider. Unnamed US intelligence officials alleged that, based on investigations, a US internet company provided services to maintain the communication network of the Chinese […]
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US Navy servicemen on board the missile destroyer USS Gravely [File photo} Sun 31 December 2023: The United States military says it has sunk three boats waging an attack on a container ship in the Red Sea as it continues its patrol mission to counter threats from Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Helicopters from two US […]
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