Day: August 22, 2022

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos seeks record $94billion budget for 2023

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr asked Congress on Monday for a record 5.29 trillion pesos (an equivalent of $94.40 billion) government budget in 2023 to support an ambitious policy agenda aimed at boosting growth and lifting millions out of poverty. Marcos’ proposed budget, which is equal to 22.2% of the country’s total economic output, is… Read More Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos seeks record $94billion budget for 2023

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Thousands rally to protest increasing crime rate and inflation in Haiti

Thousands of Haitians on Monday joined rallies around the Caribbean country to protest rampant crime and soaring consumer prices as its central bank reported that inflation had hit a 10-year high. Protesters set up burning barricades in some areas including the capital of Port-au-Prince, some of whom said they were angry over the growing scarcity… Read More Thousands rally to protest increasing crime rate and inflation in Haiti

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Far-right Italian leader Giorgia Meloni berated for posting rape video

Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni, leading the race to become Italy’s next prime minister, was accused on Monday of shameful electioneering by her rivals after posting a video of a Ukrainian woman being raped by a migrant in an Italian city. The 55-year-old woman was assaulted on a pavement in the city of Piacenza early Sunday… Read More Far-right Italian leader Giorgia Meloni berated for posting rape video

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Pfizer seeks U.S. authorization for coronavirus vaccine engineered to tackle Omicron variant

Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech said on Monday they had sought U.S. authorization for a COVID-19 vaccine retooled to target the Omicron variant. The request to the Food and Drug Administration was for a so-called bivalent vaccine containing the dominant BA.4/BA.5 variants of the virus along with the original coronavirus strain. It is intended… Read More Pfizer seeks U.S. authorization for coronavirus vaccine engineered to tackle Omicron variant

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Russian security service accuses Ukraine of murder of Darya Dugina

Russia’s Federal Security Service on Monday accused Ukraine’s secret services of killing Darya Dugina, the daughter of a Russian ultra-nationalist, in a car bomb attack near Moscow. Dugina, whose father Alexander Dugin is a prominent ideologue, was killed on Saturday evening when a bomb blew up the Toyota Land Cruiser that she was driving, Russian… Read More Russian security service accuses Ukraine of murder of Darya Dugina

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Ukraine bans Independence Day rallies due to fear of Russian rocket attacks

Ukraine’s capital Kyiv banned public celebrations this week to commemorate independence from Russian-dominated Soviet rule, citing a heightened threat of Russian attack in a war that the United Nations said on Monday has killed more than 5,500 civilians. Near frontlines in the south of the country, Ukraine said Russia fired rockets into several southern Ukrainian… Read More Ukraine bans Independence Day rallies due to fear of Russian rocket attacks

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Gunmen abduct four Catholic nuns in southeastern Nigeria

Gunmen abducted four Catholic nuns on a highway in Nigeria’s oil-producing Imo state in the southeast, a local convent said on Monday, in the latest sign of widespread insecurity making road travel unsafe. Armed gangs have been kidnapping people, including priests, for ransom from villages and on highways mainly in the northwest and the practice… Read More Gunmen abduct four Catholic nuns in southeastern Nigeria

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Singapore’s PM Lee Hsieen Loong says nation to decriminalise same-sex relations

Singapore will decriminalise sex between men but has no plans to change the legal definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Sunday. LGBTQ groups welcomed Lee’s decision to repeal Section 377A of the penal code, a colonial-era law that criminalises sex between men, but… Read More Singapore’s PM Lee Hsieen Loong says nation to decriminalise same-sex relations

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