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November 20, 2024 1:44 PM
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In the US, President-elect Donald Trump has named Mehmet Oz, to his team as his nominee to head the Medicaid and Medicare Services, the federal government's healthcare programme for the old and needy. Oz, a physician and a TV personality, will now serve as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Servi...
November 20, 2024 1:42 PM
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a 200 million dollar policy-based loan to support Sri Lanka in strengthening its financial sector. This marks the second subprogram under ADB’s Financial Sector Stability and Reforms Program towards stabilising the country’s economy and manage the financ...
November 20, 2024 1:32 PM
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India has called upon the Developed countries to fulfill the agreed commitments relating to the adapting finance needs of Developing countries. In a statement at the High-Level Ministerial Dialogue Climate Change Adaptation, during the CoP29 to the UN Climate Change Summit at Baku in Azerbaij...
November 20, 2024 1:09 PM
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In Ukraine, the Parliament has approved the government's 2025 budget, which prioritises military expenditures, social support and economic recovery. The Ukrainian Finance Ministry today announced that approximately 54 billion US Dollars, will be allocated for security and defense, out of a total bud...
November 20, 2024 10:24 AM
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree approving Russia's updated nuclear doctrine. The decree, published on the Kremlin website, stated that aggression by any state in a military coalition or bloc against Russia or its allies is seen as aggression by the entire bloc as a whole. It sai...
November 20, 2024 9:10 AM
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Russia's Defence Ministry has said that Ukraine has fired US-supplied longer-range missiles at Russian territory for the first time, a day after Washington gave its permission for such attacks. The ministry said yesterday, the strike had targeted the Bryansk region bordering Ukraine to the n...
November 20, 2024 6:03 AM
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The 19th G20 Summit has ended with Brazil's President Lula Da Silva handing over the presidency to President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday. In his closing address, President Lula talked about various initiatives taken under Brazil's presidency. The initiatives are, launching of Gl...
November 19, 2024 9:13 PM
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Germany has said it assumes that the damage caused to two telecommunication cables in the Baltic Sea was an act of sabotage. German Defence Minister Boris said today it is difficult to believe that the cables between Finland and Germany, and between Sweden and Lithuania, were accidentally severed. &...
November 19, 2024 9:07 PM
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Israel's military announced today that it killed Ali Tawfiq Dweiq, the commander of Hezbollah's medium-range rocket unit, in an airstrike on southern Lebanon yesterday. In a statement, the Israeli military said, Ali Tawfiq Dweiq was killed by the Israeli Air Force in the village of Kfar Jouz,...
November 19, 2024 8:42 PM
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A Hong Kong court today sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists to jail terms of up to 10 years. The activists were prosecuted under the national security law for their roles in pro-democracy protests. This was the biggest trial under the national security law, which China imposed on the city shortly a...
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