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Hollywood: Writers Go On Strike

Television and movie writers in Hollywood late Monday declared they will launch a strike for the first time in 15 years over fair pay in the streaming era. The Writers Guild of America said its 11,500 unionized screenwriters will head to the picket lines on Tuesday.  Negotiations between studios and the writers, which began in March, […]Continue Reading
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Russia Conducts Pre-Dawn Attack On Ukraine

Russia has launched a series of missile and artillery attacks on Ukraine, the second pre-dawn attack in three days. One person died in the Kherson region and 25 people – including three children – were injured in Dnipropetrovsk. Ukraine’s armed forces said 15 of 18 missiles fired were intercepted by the country’s air defence. One […]Continue Reading
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Sudan Crisis: UK Ends Evacuation Operation

An operation to evacuate people from Sudan has been “extremely successful”, a government minister has said, as the UK ended its evacuation operation. The Foreign Office said the last flight left the capital, Khartoum, at 22:00 local time (21:00 BST) on Saturday. “We can’t stay there forever in such dangerous circumstances,” said Foreign Office Continue Reading
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Biden Announces Re-Election Bid

US President, Joe Biden has announced he will run for re-election in 2024. Biden, who formally launched his campaign in a video on Tuesday, will also have Vice-President Kamala Harris, as his running mate “When I ran for president four years ago, I said we are in a battle for the soul of America – […]Continue Reading
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Fighting in Sudan Enters Second Week

Fighting in Sudan’s capital entered a second week Saturday as crackling gunfire shattered a temporary truce, the latest battles between forces of rival generals that have already left hundreds dead and thousands wounded. Overnight, the heavy explosions that had previously rocked the city in recent days had subsided, but on Saturday morning, bursts of gunfire […]Continue Reading
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Muted Eid as Ceasefire Breaks in Sudan

Residents of Sudan’s capital say parts of Khartoum feel like a ghost town, in stark contrast to the joyful mood usually seen during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr. After a week of fighting between two factions of the country’s military leadership at least 400 people have been killed. Witnesses say bombing, shelling and gunfire […]Continue Reading
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Beijing Hospital Fire Kills 29

Twelve people have been detained by police for questioning after a hospital fire in Beijing killed at least 29, most of them patients. The fire, among the deadliest in recent years, broke out in Changfeng Hospital at about 13:00 local time on Tuesday. Angry and concerned relatives rushed to the hospital hours later, only learning […]Continue Reading
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UN Calls for Ceasefire in Sudan

… 185 dead in three days The United Nations, UN, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on Sudan’s army and the paramilitary, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighting in Khartoum to sheathe their swords as no fewer than 185 people have lost their lives in the crisis. Guterres made the call for the ceasefire on Monday […]Continue Reading