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2024-07-01 01:25:08

BREAKING: Politico reports that members of Biden's family 'privately trashed his top campaign advisers at Camp David this weekend, blaming them for the president’s flop in Thursday’s debate' and urged Biden to 'fire or demote people in his political high command'

2024-06-28 00:29:06

JUST IN: 🇧🇴 Bolivia's central bank allows financial institutions to use cryptocurrencies, reversing ban in place since 2020.

2024-06-27 00:21:09

BREAKING: Reports that two Iranians are dead in Israeli strike near Damascus

2024-06-25 22:53:10

BREAKING: Brazil’s Supreme Court has voted to decriminalize the possession of marijuana for personal use

2024-06-25 22:22:07

BREAKING: Plane carrying Julian Assange lands on US territory Saipan Island in the western Pacific

2024-06-24 22:04:10

BREAKING: Newsweek reports two NASA astronauts are still orbiting earth, two weeks since they were supposed to be back on land, as engineers work to 'fix a series of helium leaks on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft'

2024-06-23 23:47:06

JUST IN: Israeli strikes on targets in southern Lebanon

2024-06-20 18:05:10

Military spending, 2023. (Current US Dollars)
🇮🇷 Iran: $10.2 billion
🇮🇱 Israel: $27.4 billion
(SIPRI)

2024-06-20 17:04:07

World's cleanest airports, 2024.
1. 🇯🇵 Tokyo Haneda
2. 🇰🇷 Seoul Incheon
3. 🇸🇬 Singapore Changi
4. 🇶🇦 Doha Hamad
5. 🇯🇵 Centrair Nagoya
6. 🇯🇵 Tokyo Narita
7. 🇯🇵 Kansai
8. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong
9. 🇹🇼 Taiwan Taoyuan
10. 🇨🇭 Zurich
(SkyTrax)

2024-06-20 08:12:10

BREAKING: Israeli defense minister Gallant set to visit the United States next week

2024-06-20 07:04:04

BREAKING: Reuters reports that Israeli tanks have pushed deeper into the western part of Rafah

2024-06-20 03:53:04

JUST IN: Kim Jong-Un gave a pair of dogs as a gift to Putin

2024-06-20 00:32:08

BREAKING: Ecuador impacted by nationwide blackout

2024-06-19 22:27:10

MEDICINE: New research reveals antidepressants such as SSRIs treat depression by enhancing brain region communication and promoting neuroplasticity, not by correcting a serotonin imbalance, according to a study published in Molecular Psychiatry journal.

2024-06-19 22:05:10

BREAKING: ACLU to file lawsuit against Louisiana, saying new law requiring the Ten Commandments in classrooms is unconstitutional.

2024-06-19 21:34:10

FINANCE: The chief executive of UBS says that 'Hong Kong, Singapore and the US are aggressively competing' for the 'wealth management crown that Switzerland holds today'

2024-06-18 19:04:08

JUST IN: Fox reports that Kansas has sued Pfizer over 'misrepresentations' and 'adverse events' of COVID-19 vaccine

2024-06-18 14:01:05

BREAKING: Bloomberg reports that whistleblower Sam Mohawk says Boeing 'mishandled and lost track of hundreds of faulty parts, some of which he said may have been installed on new 737 Max planes'.

2024-06-17 14:03:09

FRANCE: Bloomberg reports that the 'traditional norms that have kept nationalist groups out of power are falling apart' as the French establishment had a 'tacit agreement that prevented far-right parties from getting close to the levers of government'.

2024-06-17 10:21:10

BREAKING: The BBC reports that the Greek coastguard has 'caused the deaths of dozens of migrants' in the Mediterranean Sea over a period of three years, including nine people who 'were deliberately thrown into the water'.

2024-06-15 19:01:05

Share of 🇹🇷 Turkey's population living at below $6.25 a day
2003: 42%
2010: 18%
2019: 13%
(World Bank)

2024-06-15 17:31:10

Greenhouse gas emissions per person, world's largest economies.
🇨🇦 Canada: 19.6
🇺🇸 US: 18.2
🇷🇺 Russia: 17.1
🇯🇵 Japan: 9.2
🇨🇳 China: 9
🇩🇪 Germany: 9
🇬🇧 UK: 6.5
🇮🇹 Italy: 6.5
🇫🇷 France: 6.1
🇧🇷 Brazil: 4.9
🇮🇳 India: 2.4
(Climate Watch and The World Bank)

2024-06-15 17:02:04

World's richest people ($ billion)
🇺🇸 Elon Musk: 210
🇺🇸 Jeff Bezos: 201
🇫🇷 Bernard Arnault: 194
🇺🇸 Mark Zuckerberg: 176
🇺🇸 Larry Ellison: 168
🇺🇸 Larry Page: 144
🇺🇸 Sergey Brin: 140
🇺🇸 Warren Buffet: 133
🇺🇸 Bill Gates: 132
🇺🇸 Steve Ballmer: 129
🇮🇳 Mukesh Ambani: 115
(Forbes)

2024-06-15 16:03:09

Stock-market indices, past week.
🇫🇷 France: -6.2%
🇮🇹 Italy: -5.7%
🇪🇸 Spain: -3.6%
🇩🇪 Germany: -3%
🇬🇧 UK: -1.1%

2024-06-15 15:01:04

Price change over the past week.
Ethanol: +6%
Heating oil: +4.8%
Crude oil: +3.8%
Brent crude: +3.7%
Coal: +1.6%
Gasoline: +1%

2024-06-15 14:03:09

Share of 🇮🇳 India's population living under international poverty line
1987: 50%
2004: 39%
2018: 11%
(World Bank)

2024-06-15 10:24:10

BREAKING: Israeli military is striking Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon

2024-06-15 07:13:04

BREAKING: CBS News reports that US officials interpret recent strikes by Israel inside of Lebanese territory as 'preparing the battlefield for a sweeping assault by Israel Defense Forces'

2024-06-15 03:05:11

VIDEO: Donald Trump's comments on cryptocurrency
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/353bf5eccbd5538a60c4cf22294e69340080db576f284cba873d4f669fdd5b21.file

2024-06-12 06:36:08

BREAKING: Donald Trump says 'we want all the remaining Bitcoin to be made in the USA'

2024-06-12 03:13:17

BREAKING: President Biden approves the deployment of an additional Patriot air defense system to the Ukrainian Air Force

2024-06-12 03:13:17

BREAKING: Large blasts in Kyiv

2024-06-10 22:01:06

BREAKING: The 🇺🇸 FDA has recommended Eli Lilly's Alzheimer's drug donanemab, facilitating its full approval in the United States later this year.

2024-06-09 19:21:08

RESEARCH: Taking a one-week break from social media resulted in 'increased self-esteem and body image among young women in general' according to a study published in Body Image journal.

2024-06-09 14:16:09

INDIA: The Financial Times reports that the country's biggest telecommunications companies, led by billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Sunil Bharti Mittal, are set to 'launch satellite internet services as they challenge Elon Musk’s attempts to establish Starlink in the country'.

2024-06-09 04:02:09

BREAKING: North Korea has sent hundreds of balloons carrying garbage over the border with South Korea since yesterday

2024-06-08 13:05:12

JAPAN: Country's birth rate has fallen to a new record low for the 8th straight year, with the 727,277 babies born in 2023 the lowest since records began in 1899.

2024-06-08 04:56:06

CHINA: Over 13.4 million students have registered to sit the country's two-day national college entrance exam, a record-high.

2024-06-08 02:52:09

BREAKING: Astronaut William Anders, who was on Apollo 8, has died in a plane crash near Seattle.

2024-06-08 00:51:06

JUST IN: Egypt's reports record temperature of 50.9°C, equivalent to 123.6°F.

2024-06-07 23:50:07

BREAKING: 75.7% of working-age women in the United States are now employed, a new record high.

2024-06-07 22:49:10

JUST IN: Donald Trump calls himself a 'crypto president' at a tech fundraiser

2024-06-07 16:07:46

Best places to travel this September
1. 🇫🇷 Marseille
2. 🇯🇵 Kyoto
3. 🇲🇪 Montenegro
4. 🇸🇿 Eswatini
5. 🇨🇦 British Columbia
6. 🇩🇪 Munich
7. 🇨🇴 Cali, Colombia
8. 🇫🇷 Lille
9. 🇺🇸 Boston
10. 🇨🇾 Ayia Napa, Cyprus
11. 🇸🇪 Gothenburg, Sweden
12. 🇺🇸 Chicago
13. 🇫🇷 Corscia
(TimeOut)

2024-06-05 23:11:09

BREAKING: Israel's finance minister Bezalel Smotrich calls on PM Netanyahu to 'give the order' and 'go to war with Hezbollah'

2024-06-05 23:11:09

BREAKING: Israeli fighter jet activity around Beirut

2024-06-05 22:10:08

BREAKING: Mexico reports world’s first human case of H5N2 bird flu in a 59 year old who has died.

2024-06-05 22:10:08

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2024-06-05 19:04:09

UNITED STATES: Juror in a major fraud trial, involving seven people charged with stealing $40 million from a pandemic fund, has been dismissed after saying someone left a bag with $120,000 in cash if she voted to acquit the suspects.

2024-06-05 04:12:08

BREAKING: The Wall Street Journal reports a group backed by BlackRock and Citadel Securities is 'planning to start a new national stock exchange in Texas, aiming to take on what they see as onerous regulation at the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq'

2024-06-03 10:45:07

BREAKING: Claudia Sheinbaum to become Mexico's first female president after winning in a landslide, with opponents conceding defeat.

2024-06-02 21:24:08

JUST IN: Israel's defense minister Gallant says the war will not end until 'the dismantling of the Hamas government and its military power'

2024-06-02 20:53:10

BREAKING: Maldives has banned all Israelis from entering the country

2024-06-02 16:17:09

Youth unemployment
🇿🇦 South Africa: 59.7%
🇪🇸 Spain: 27.2%
🇮🇹 Italy: 20%
🇫🇷 France: 16.9%
🇹🇷 Turkey: 15.1%
🇨🇳 China: 14.7%
🇨🇦 Canada: 12.6%
🇬🇧 UK: 11.2%
🇦🇺 Australia: 9.7%
🇳🇱 Netherlands: 8.7%
🇺🇸 US: 8.2%
🇰🇷 South Korea: 6.8%
🇩🇪 Germany: 5.8%
🇯🇵 Japan: 4.5%
🇨🇭 Switzerland: 2%

2024-06-02 14:16:09

JUST IN: China's defense minister says the prospect of peaceful 'reunification' with Taiwan is being 'eroded' and that 'separatists' will be 'nailed to the pillar of shame'

2024-06-02 04:58:07

UNITED STATES: Bloomberg reports that 'buyers just are not showing up' in the US housing market and that sellers are 'cutting asking prices' at the highest rate since November, 2022.

2024-05-29 12:48:07

BREAKING: 🇮🇳 Delhi reports record high temperature of 52.3 degrees Celsius

2024-05-28 15:10:10

GDP per capita (current prices), 2023.
🇸🇬 Singapore: $84,730
🇦🇺 Australia: $65,430
🇯🇵 Japan: $33,810
🇰🇷 South Korea: $33,190
🇲🇾 Malaysia: $12,570
🇨🇳 China: $12,510
🇮🇩 Indonesia: $4,940
🇧🇩 Bangladesh: $2,620
🇮🇳 India: $2,500
🇵🇰 Pakistan: $1,460
(IMF)

2024-05-28 03:23:09

BREAKING: Reports of shelling on the Indonesian hospital near Rafah

2024-05-26 23:37:10

BREAKING: Mass casualty event at a Rafah UN Relief and Works camp

2024-05-24 19:26:05

UNITED STATES: The income needed to 'comfortably afford a home is up 80% since 2020', while median income over the same period has only risen 23%, according to Zillow.

2024-05-23 22:55:08

BREAKING: CIA director is set to meet the chief of the Mossad in an attempt to revive ceasefire-hostage talks

2024-05-23 20:23:09

UNITED STATES: Average age of vehicles in the country reaches a record 12.6 years, amid high prices and pandemic-related shortages, according to data by S&P Global Mobility.

2024-05-23 03:28:08

NEW ZEALAND: NBC News reports that a 50 year old man in the country has been fined over a video that showed him jumping into the water and trying to 'body slam' an orca whale that was swimming near his boat

2024-05-23 02:58:06

BREAKING: AFP reports China is conducting drills that involve the navy and air force 'surrounding' Taiwan, with Beijing saying it is a 'strong punishment' for 'separatist acts'.

2024-05-22 21:48:09

UNITED STATES: Vice President Kamala Harris says that 'we have now forgiven nearly $160 billion of student loan debt for over 4 million Americans'

2024-05-21 06:46:09

JUST IN: Reuters reports three of Donald Trump's foreign policy advisers met with Netanyahu earlier this week

2024-05-21 00:07:05

SCIENCE: Microplastics have been found in every tested human testicle, as well as dog testicles, as part of a study published in Toxicological Sciences.

2024-05-20 05:31:10

BREAKING: New image of wreckage of Iranian president's helicopter, which left no survivors.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/ec8d6c07c11b2f388ea6a2513c560a854dc74194756277e93214eb7525407808.file

2024-05-18 19:07:06

UNITED STATES: Bloomberg reports that 42% of those with household income of over $100,000 report being 'behind or delinquent' on 'Buy Now, Pay Later' payments

2024-05-17 15:22:05

SCIENCE: Vegetarian and vegan diets are 'significantly associated' with lower risk of ischemic heart disease and cancer, according to a study published in PLOS One.

2024-05-16 21:54:08

BREAKING: Texas Governor Greg Abbott has pardoned Daniel Perry who was convicted of killing Black Lives Matter protester Garrett Foster

2024-05-14 23:49:04

BREAKING: Biden will veto a Republican bill that would compel the United States to send all approved weapons to Israel

2024-05-14 22:46:09

JUST IN: GameStop and AMC Entertainment have closed up 61% and 32% in today's trading.

2024-05-14 22:14:06

JUST IN: 🇦🇷 Argentina reports annual inflation of 289% in April, the highest increase since 1991, despite a deceleration in the monthly rate.

2024-05-14 11:58:08

JUST IN: Australia's government forecasts $9.3 billion surplus for this financial year

2024-05-12 18:18:06

UNITED STATES: Donald Trump says that 'instead of a Biden tax hike, I’ll give you a Trump middle class, upper class, lower class, business class big tax cut'

2024-05-11 22:46:06

BREAKING: The Washington Post reports that the US is offering Israel 'sensitive intelligence to help the Israeli military pinpoint the location of Hamas leaders' in an effort to avoid an invasion of Rafah

2024-05-10 19:30:10

The purchasing power of 🇺🇸 $1 since 1930.
1930: $1
1960: $0.4
1990: $0.1
2023: $0.04

2024-05-08 21:34:08

🇯🇵 Japan's government says there are now 9 million vacant homes in the country, as it struggles with a declining and ageing population.

2024-05-08 21:02:07

JUST IN: Israel's Channel 12 reports that CIA chief told Netanyahu that there is still an opportunity for a ceasefire deal

2024-05-08 03:44:10

BREAKING: Axios reports that US House Republicans are preparing legislation to 'sanction International Criminal Court officials as a 'precaution' against potential arrest warrants of Israeli officials'

2024-05-07 23:06:08

BREAKING: The AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine is being withdrawn worldwide, after the pharmaceutical giant admitted it can cause a rare and dangerous side effect, according to The Telegraph.

2024-05-07 03:02:06

JUST IN: Australia's Prime Minister says the government 'does not support the intervention into Rafah'

2024-05-06 22:26:04

JUST IN: Rocket sirens sound in parts of southern Israel

2024-05-06 21:55:09

BREAKING: Heavy artillery attack on fringes of eastern Rafah

2024-05-06 21:24:10

BREAKING: Loud blasts heard near Rafah

2024-05-06 20:23:10

BREAKING: US State Department spokesperson says the US is 'quite concerned' by the closure of Al Jazeera's operations in Israel

2024-05-06 20:23:09

JUST IN: Erdogan calls on Western countries to pressure Israel into accepting ceasefire proposal

2024-05-06 19:22:09

BREAKING: Israeli army radio reports that Hamas accepting of ceasefire proposal, which is unacceptable to Israel, is an attempt to delay the Rafah operation.

2024-05-06 15:16:06

Highest oil consumption, barrels per day
🇺🇸 USA: 19.7 million
🇨🇳 China: 15.5 million
🇮🇳 India: 4.9 million
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 3.5 million
🇷🇺 Russia: 3.4 million
🇯🇵 Japan: 3.3 million
🇧🇷 Brazil: 2.9 million
🇰🇷 South Korea: 2.8 million
🇨🇦 Canada: 2.2 million
🇩🇪 Germany: 2.1 million

2024-05-06 11:42:07

BREAKING: The Financial Times reports that Arab countries have 'begun to swing behind the idea of a multinational peacekeeping force for Gaza and the occupied West Bank'

2024-05-06 08:31:09

JUST IN: Sirens sound in northern Israel

2024-05-05 22:00:11

BREAKING: Three Israeli soldiers killed in rocket attack earlier today

2024-05-05 17:19:09

Which country currently presents the best investment opportunities?

2024-05-05 01:17:06

JUST IN: Australia's government announces it will wipe out $3 billion in student debt

2024-05-04 03:38:10

BREAKING: The Washington Post reports that the US told Qatar that it 'should expel Hamas if the group continues to reject a cease-fire with Israel'

2024-05-03 21:24:25

JUST IN: Israel's foreign minister says Erdogan is a 'dictator who dreams of being a sultan' and that the 'Turkish economy will be hurt much more than the Israeli economy' amid trade halt

2024-05-03 20:23:11

RESEARCH: Labelling members of certain occupations such as nurses and teachers as 'heroes' possibly leads to exploitation and 'promotes worse treatment of the very groups that it is meant to venerate', according to a study in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

2024-05-02 11:20:09

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 President Biden says 'immigrants are what make us strong' as a country

2024-04-30 22:05:10

Cocoa prices (per tonne).
19th of April: $12,200
Now: $9,200
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/bc57d9ecc0a5ce39de32672f642d2ba53411dd8893037a4a2bdea1a7f22b92c3.file