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US heads for another recession as retail sales post biggest drop in 12 months
Jan 19, 2023 10:32US retail sales fell by the most in a year in December, pulled down by declines in purchases of motor vehicles and a range of other goods, putting consumer spending and the overall economy on a weaker growth path heading into 2023.
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Microsoft to cut 10,000 American jobs as US tech layoffs intensify
Jan 19, 2023 10:21US tech giant Microsoft Corp has said it would cut 10,000 American jobs as layoffs are accelerating in the US technology sector with companies bracing for an economic downturn.
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The African-American man who couldn't pay $100 bail starved to death in US jail: Lawsuit
Jan 19, 2023 06:09The family of an African-American man who starved to death in an Arkansas jail because he was unable to pay his $100 bail sued Sebastian County, which runs the detention center where the man died. The lawsuit accused the jail and its medical provider of criminal neglect.
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Thousands of Spanish health workers march to demand better working conditions
Jan 19, 2023 05:22Thousands of health workers in Spain’s capital, Madrid, have once again hit the streets to demand better salaries and working conditions and to denounce the conservative regional government for “destruction” of the public health system.
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UN chief slams fossil fuel producers for endangering human survival, peddling big lies
Jan 19, 2023 04:19UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has denounced giant fossil fuel companies for ignoring their own climate science, warning that their business model is "inconsistent with human survival."
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Putin: Russia’s military-industrial might makes Ukraine victory 'inevitable'
Jan 18, 2023 13:22President Vladimir Putin says Russia's powerful military-industrial complex is ramping up production amid the Ukraine war, and will make victory in war "inevitable."
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UK crisis: Nurses stage new strikes over low pay as health service creaks
Jan 18, 2023 11:15Nurses across England have launched a new round of strikes over low pay in an already disrupted public health services as inflation skyrockets.
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Australia aims to replace costly European Taipan choppers with US-made Black Hawks
Jan 18, 2023 10:09Australia plans to get US-designed Black Hawk helicopters to replace its trouble-prone European-made Taipans.
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Ukraine's interior minister killed in helicopter crash near Kiev
Jan 18, 2023 10:00Ukraine's Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky has been killed, along with 15 other people, in a helicopter crash outside the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.
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China slams US ‘blatant and egregious’ plundering of Syria’s natural reserves
Jan 18, 2023 09:42China has denounced the United States over its “blatant and egregious” attempts to further plunder natural resources in Syria, stating that American occupation forces are massively smuggling crude oil and grain from the northeastern part of the war-torn country to their bases in northern Iraq.