Monthly Archives: May 2024
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Talks advance on a treaty to end plastic pollution
Nations made progress on a treaty to end plastic pollution as their fourth round of talks finished yesterday in Canada. For the first time in the ... -
1945 Germany announces Hitler is dead
Adolf Hitler has been killed at the Reich Chancery in Berlin, according to Hamburg radio. At 2230 local time a newsreader announced that reports from the ... -
The Taliban are working to woo tourists to Afghanistan
Around 30 men are crammed into a Kabul classroom, part of the debut student cohort at a Taliban-run institute training tourism and hospitality professionals. It’s a ... -
US and Mexico drop bid to host 2027 World Cup, Brazil and joint German-Dutch-Belgian bids remain
The U.S. Soccer Federation and its Mexican counterpart dropped their joint bid to host the 2027 Women’s World Cup yesterday [Macau time] and said they will ... -
Winner of $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot is an immigrant from Laos who has cancer
One of the winners of a $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot this month is an immigrant from Laos who has had cancer for eight years and had ... -
King Charles III returns to public duties with a trip to a cancer charity
King Charles III returned to public duties yesterday, visiting a cancer treatment charity and beginning his carefully managed comeback after the monarch’s own cancer diagnosis sidelined him for ... -
Musk’s visit exposes malignancy of Washington’s ‘overcapacity’ claim
Coming hard on the heels of the rather gloomy visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, whose agenda for his trip seemed to be to ... -
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 – edition no. 4474
* Happiness Street facelift — Government to revamp structures along Rua de Felicidade following positive pedestrianization assessment * Corruption | Two customs officers accused of sick ...
