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Biden bets on 'Bidenomics' for 2024 victory
AFP, Published on 28/06/2023
» WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden is gambling his 2024 re-election on a continued strong US economy and manufacturing resurgence with a speech Wednesday launching his newly branded "Bidenomics."
France braces for protests after 'unforgivable' police shooting
AFP, Published on 28/06/2023
» PARIS - France braced for more angry protests Wednesday after the killing of a teenager by police during a traffic stop that President Emmanuel Macron called "unforgivable".
Prigozhin ‘aimed to capture Russian generals’
Published on 28/06/2023
» WASHINGTON: Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin aimed to detain the heads of the Russian military in last week’s mutiny, but they discovered his planned rebellion early and avoided capture, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
Sierra Leone calm despite election disputes
AFP, Published on 28/06/2023
» FREETOWN: The streets of Sierra Leone's capital were quiet on Wednesday, a day after President Julius Maada Bio was sworn in for a second term following an election that his main rival slammed as "not credible."
New fossil fuel projects stir anger in Norway
Published on 28/06/2023
» OSLO: The government of Norway has given the green light to 19 new oil and gas projects worth more than 200 billion kroner ($18.6 billion), a decision that has outraged climate activists.
Trafficking victims need better protection, US says
Published on 28/06/2023
» The United States has urged Thailand to improve its systems for protecting victims of human trafficking, especially those pressed into forced labour by growing numbers of cyber-scam gangs.
PM hails growth in Thai-Chinese trading ties
Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 28/06/2023
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has hailed the rapid growth in Thai-Chinese trading ties that has led to the expansion of economic and trade cooperation in Shandong, a coastal province in eastern China.
Kevin Spacey in UK court for sex trial
AFP, Published on 28/06/2023
» LONDON: Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey returned to a London courtroom on Wednesday to stand trial for a dozen sexual offences that allegedly occurred more than a decade ago.
Spain battles ganja gangs
Published on 28/06/2023
» BARCELONA: Heavily armed police officers arrived in a well-to-do Barcelona suburb before dawn to raid a two-storey house that turned out to be packed with 800 marijuana plants growing under powerful lamps.
Swedish police grant permit for Koran burning
AFP, Published on 28/06/2023
» STOCKHOLM: Swedish police said they have granted a permit for a protest where the organiser plans to burn a Koran outside Stockholm's main mosque on Wednesday, the start of the Muslim three-day Eid al-Adha holiday.