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UK finance minister Hunt to present budget on March 15
British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Monday he would present a budget on March 15 next year and had commissioned the Office for Budget Responsibility to prepare an economic and fiscal forecas…
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Six dead including 73-year-old suspect in shooting near Canada’s Toronto
Six people including the 73-year-old suspect died and one was seriously injured in a shooting at a residential building in the city of Vaughan in Canada’s Ontario province on Sunday night, local poli…
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Qatar expects 16% revenue rise in 2023 budget on higher oil prices
Qatar approved its 2023 fiscal year budget on Monday with revenue estimated to increase 16.3% next year, its finance minister said, thanks to rising average oil prices. Total annual revenue is estima…
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Putin heads for Belarus as Russian drones target Ukrainian capital
Russian President Vladimir Putin heads for Belarus on Monday, fuelling Ukrainian fears he intends to pressure his ally to join a new offensive, as Russian drones attacked Kyiv in the latest assault t…
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Vatican dismisses Trump’s die-hard supporter, anti-abortion leader from priesthood
Father Frank Pavone, a leader of the U.S. anti-abortion movement and a strong supporter of former president Donald Trump, has been dismissed from the Catholic priesthood for “blasphemous” social medi…
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Fire near French city of Lyon kills 10, including five children
Ten people, including five children aged three to 15, were killed in a fire in the early hours of Friday in a residential building in Vaulx-en-Velin, near the French city of Lyon, Interior Minister G…
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World’s largest freestanding cylindrical aquarium bursts in Berlin
An aquarium in Berlin that was home to around 1,500 exotic fish burst early on Friday, prompting around 100 emergency responders to rush to the scene at an inner-city leisure complex, emergency servi…
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South Africa’s Ramaphosa guns for party leadership after ‘Farmgate’ scandal
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to win reelection as leader of his party this weekend, after he was spared impeachment proceedings over a scandal dubbed “Farmgate” involving milli…
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‘The world should not relax’, Russia preparing for long war – Ukrainian military cry out
Russia is digging in for a long war in Ukraine and still wants to conquer the entire country, a senior Ukrainian military official said on Thursday. Brigadier General Oleksiy Gromov told a military b…
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More woes for Britain as nurses strike in bitter pay dispute
National Health Service nurses in Britain staged a strike on Thursday, their first ever national walkout, as a bitter dispute with the government over pay ramps up pressure on already-stretched hospi…