Fri 05 May 2023: Nearly half of Americans are anxious about the safety of the money they have in accounts at banks or other financial institutions amid turbulence in the U.S. banking system, according to a new poll released on Thursday. The poll, by research firm Gallup, revealed that 48 percent of U.S. adults say […]
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Fri 05 May 2023: The death toll from flooding and landslides, triggered by heavy rains in Rwanda and Uganda reached 140 on Thursday. The rains also destroyed more than 5,000 houses in Rwanda, leaving residents homeless, due to heavy downpour, that pounded the country Tuesday overnight, Anadolu Agency reported. On Thursday, Prime Minister Edouard Ngirente, […]
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Thu 04 May 2023: The UN agency for refugees announced on Thursday that it expects 860,000 refugees and returnees to leave Sudan and that it will require $445 million in funding from partners to sustain the displaced population until October, Anadolu Agency reported. According to a statement from the UNHCR, the Regional Refugee Response Plan […]
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Thu 04 May 2023: In the unrest-ridden northwest of Pakistan, gunmen attacked a school, killing several teachers and shooting another one of them in a separate attack. On Thursday, a group of gunmen attacked a government school where pupils were sitting exams in Kurram, a district in the northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan. The […]
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Thu 04 May 2023: After the Belgrade school massacre on Wednesday, the Serbian cabinet agreed on Thursday to President Aleksandar Vucic’s proposal to decrease the age of criminal culpability and implement other additional measures. Serbian newspaper Vecernje novosti (Evening news) reported. “The Ministry of Justice has been entrusted to consider possibility of changing the penal […]
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Thu 04 May 2023: The Kremlin said on Thursday that it knew Pope Francis was thinking about ways to end the conflict in Ukraine, but that it was not aware of any detailed peace plans from the Vatican. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Francis has offered to act as a broker between Moscow […]
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Thu 04 May 2023: The ongoing wrestlers’ protest intensified on Thursday morning after a scuffle broke out between protesting grapplers and Delhi Police at Jantar Mantar late Wednesday night. Ace wrestler Vinesh Phogat, who said that a Delhi police personnel manhandled and shoved protesting grapplers, today said “she will return all her medals”. Around 11 […]
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Thu 04 May 2023: Human Rights Watch says Muslims in Xinjiang are flagged as violent extremists for simply practising their religion. Taipei, Taiwan – Chinese authorities monitor the phones of ethnic minority Uighurs for the presence of 50,000 known multimedia files that are used to flag violent extremism, with possession of the Quran enough to trigger […]
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Thu 04 May 2023: Major employment market changes will occur over the next five years as more enterprises implement artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and the global economy deteriorates. the World Economic Forum (WEF) said in its latest report. AI and economic and social conditions are expected to result in 83 million job losses, with only […]
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Wed 03 May 2023: Russia alleged Wednesday that Ukraine attempted to assassinate President Vladimir Putin in an overnight drone strike on the Kremlin, draw denials from Kiev and heated retribution demands from nationalists in Moscow. Russia accuses Ukraine of attempt to kill Putin with drones Russia has accused Ukraine of attempting an overnight drone attack […]
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