Sat 18 December 2021: UK’s FTSE 100 slipped on Friday and was on course for a weekly loss, as concerns surrounding the fast-spreading Omicron variant and inflationary risks outweighed strong retail sales data. The commodity-heavy FTSE 100 index was down 0.1%, with oil majors Royal Dutch Shell and BP falling about 1% each, tracking weakness in crude prices as […]
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Sat 18 December 2021: Discussions at the United Nations on autonomous weapons ended without reaching an agreement to launch negotiations on an international treaty to regulate their use on Friday. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and several nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) had been pushing for negotiators to begin work on an international treaty that would […]
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Fri 17 December 2021: The United States is quietly working to expand the Trump-era Abraham Accords in the middle East, a senior Biden administration official said on Friday. “We’ve worked to strengthen the existing Abraham Accords and we are working quietly but quite judiciously to expand the Abraham Accords,” the official said during a conference […]
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Sat 18 December 2021: French authorities have urged people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 before the holiday festivities as infections surge and the government tries to avoid another lockdown. “The fifth wave is here and it is here in full force,” Prime Minister Jean Castex told a news conference on Friday, likening the spread of […]
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Fri 17 December 2021: As schools across the country sent out alerts to parents on Friday, the FBI said it was investigating a school shooting threat on the popular social media platform TikTok. The “school shooting challenge” video, which circulated on TikTok and claimed there would be multiple school gun attacks and bombings across the […]
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Fri 17 December 2021: Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, accepted “personal responsibility” for the ruling Conservative Party’s stunning defeat in the North Shropshire parliamentary by-election on Thursday, which saw the party lose a traditional stronghold in central England.n as a lawmaker to lobby for two firms that paid him more than […]
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Fri 17 December 2021: On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin wished Pope Francis a happy 85th birthday, telling him that they could work together to protect Christians. The remarks follow the pope’s announcement earlier this month that he was ready to travel to Moscow to meet with Patriarch Kirill, Russia’s Orthodox Church’s head. “It is […]
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Fri 17 December 2021: The 3rd Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit began Thursday with a meeting of high-level government officials in Istanbul, Turkey’s Communications Directorate said in a statement. The summit will continue with a meeting of foreign ministers Dec. 17. Concurrent sessions on health care, education, and agriculture with relevant ministers will be held also be […]
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Fri 17 December 2021: The Biden administration hits Chinese companies with export restrictions, citing national security and human rights. The Biden administration has slapped trade sanctions on several Chinese companies and institutions, citing national security and China’s oppression of its largely Muslim Uighur minority population. The US Commerce Department said on Thursday that it was […]
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Fri 17 December 2021: Miss World 2021 finale has been temporarily postponed after several contestants tested positive for Covid. The announcement was made on Thursday, just hours before the event was scheduled to start. The contestants are currently in isolation in Puerto Rico, where the finale was scheduled to take place. “Keeping in mind the […]
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