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US Senate to launch debate on $1.66 trillion government funding bill
Dec 21, 2022 06:17Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress were moving forward with a $1.66 trillion government funding bill, scrambling to pass a measure, which includes record military spending, before temporary funding runs out on Friday.
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Putin says situation 'extremely complicated' in Russia's new regions amid new threats
Dec 20, 2022 12:09Russian President Vladimir Putin says the situation in four former regions of Ukraine that recently voted to join the Russian union is "extremely complicated", urging the country’s security agencies to remain vigilant in the wake of new threats and challenges.
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US sends B-52 bombers, F-22 fighters for war games with South Korea
Dec 20, 2022 11:58South Korea and the United States have conducted a combined "military air drill" on Tuesday involving US nuclear-capable bombers and advanced stealth jets, Seoul said, amid rapidly escalating tensions with North Korea.
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N. Korea blasts Japan's $320bn 'security strategy', calls it 'new aggression policy'
Dec 20, 2022 11:45North Korea has denounced Japan's new security strategy, describing it as a "serious" threat against international peace and vowing to show “actual action” in response to Tokyo's “wrong” choice.
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Sudan’s forces use tear gas, stun grenades to disperse rally against post-coup deal
Dec 20, 2022 11:37Sudanese security forces have clashed with protesters in the capital Khartoum during a rally against a much-criticized deal purportedly aimed at ending the crisis provoked by the 2021 military coup.
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Shortage of children’s medicine amid flu season highlights US drug supply problems
Dec 20, 2022 11:23The United States is grappling with a shortage of children’s pain relief medications amid a winter “tripledemic” wave of COVID-19, influenza and other respiratory illnesses, according to reports citing US pharma companies.
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Another rail strike due in UK over pay
Dec 20, 2022 11:09Rail workers at 15 train companies in the United Kingdom will go on strike on January 5 as part of a long-running dispute over demands for better pay.
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British nurses launch second strike in row over pay
Dec 20, 2022 10:55Tens of thousands of British nurses has gone on strike in their unprecedented second round of industrial action in less than a week, raising concerns over the patient safety as the ambulance staff are also set to go on strike.
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UK High Court approves controversial Rwanda deportation policy, raising concern among rights groups
Dec 20, 2022 10:40UK High Court has ruled in favor of the British government’s controversial policy to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda, ignoring the criticisms by human right groups who depict the plan as inhumane.
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North Korea says sanctions not able to stop its missile development program
Dec 20, 2022 06:24North Korea has strongly criticized both the South and Japan for respectively trying to impose fresh sanctions on Pyongyang to stop its weapons development program and adopting a threatening military strategy.