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UK’s Sunak Pledges To Progressively Raise Tobacco Age Limit
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday pledged to introduce legislation to reduce tobacco use, saying there was “no safe level of smoking ”.
“I propose that in future, we raise the smoking age by one year every year. That means a…
McCarthy Ouster Means More Turmoil As Next Shutdown Fight Looms
Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as US House speaker plunged Congress into an internal power struggle as it faces key deadlines on avoiding a government shutdown and approving aid for Ukraine — all as the country hurtles toward a presidential…
Trump Rivals Attack Each Other But Fail to Shake His Dominance
Seven of the Republican contenders for the presidential nomination spent two hours hammering each other, President Joe Biden and the absent frontrunner in a debate that often felt close to chaos.
None of them managed to deliver a…
US, Iran Release Prisoners In $6bn Swap Deal
Iran and the United States exchanged five prisoners each on Monday, the first such deal between arch-foes in years.
One of the five Americans freed by Iran, who had been held for eight years, departed Tehran in a Qatari jet, hours after…
Biden’s Son Hunter Indicted On Gun Charges
In exchange he was offered probation, as he had already paid what he owed the government along with penalties.
In the same deal, Weiss agreed to suspend the felony gun charge if Biden completed “pretrial diversion,” which often involves…
Trump’s Legal Cases ‘Politically Motivated Persecution’ – Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday described legal proceedings against former US president Donald Trump as “politically motivated persecution.”
The Kremlin has repeatedly spoken out in defence of the former president, who is…
Gabon President Calls On ‘Friends’ To Speak Up Over Coup
Gabon’s President Ali Bongo has appeared in a video calling for his “friends” to “make
“I’m sending a message to all friends that we have all over the world to tell them to make noise for (…) the people here who arrested me and my…
Fresh Coup In Africa, Gabon President Removed
Army officers have appeared on national television in Gabon to say they have taken power.
They said they were annulling the results of Saturday's election, in which President Ali Bongo was declared the winner.
The electoral commission…
Pakistan Ex-PM Imran Khan’s Graft Conviction Suspended
A Pakistan high court on Tuesday suspended former prime minister Imran Khan’s prison sentence for a graft conviction, a spokesman for his party told AFP, but it was unclear if he would be immediately released.
A spokesman for Khan’s…
Trump Gets March 4, 2024 Trial Date In Charge To Overturn 2020 Election Results
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Monday set a March 4, 2024, trial date for Donald Trump in the federal case in Washington charging the former president with trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The decision from…