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EXCLUSIVEWoman 'kept as a sex slave' by 'Poland's Josef Fritzl' had all her teeth and both of her LIPS removed, leaving her with 'just a hole for a mouth', as part of captor's 'cruel experiments ... Read More

Global sovereign debt to maintain upward tendency through 2022: Fitch Ratings

2020 witnessed the largest one-year debt surge after World War II, which jumped significantly to $226 trillion (256 percent of GDP). Fitch’s report expects elevated global inflation to ... Read More

AI’s Promise for the Global Economy

AI is general-purpose technology that has applications across the entire economy, by sector and type of work. This is important, because only general-purpose technologies can produce an economy-wide ... Read More

Global News at 5

The July 18, 2024, edition of Global News at 5 on Global Lethbridge. Over 200 wildfires had forced about 14,000 people to flee their homes in British Columbia as of Monday afternoon, including ... Read More

Chinese Developer Kaisa Makes Progress on Offshore Debt Restructuring

Chinese property developer Kaisa 16383.13%increase; green up pointing triangle Group Holdings said it has made significant progress in restructuring ... of dollars in new debt and convertible ... Read More

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MLA Obby Khan has announced over social media he intends to run in the party’s leadership race. He has represented the Fort Whyte riding since winning in a byelection in 2022. Manitoba RCMP say ... Read More

Mpox Is a Global Health Emergency. What Happens Next?

These changes, and the global lack of immunity to mpox, makes the world’s population vulnerable to the virus. In 2022, an epidemic of mpox swept through non-endemic countries, including beyond ... Read More

What to know about the mpox global health emergency

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the increasing spread of mpox in Africa is a global health emergency, warning the virus might ultimately spill across ... Read More

What is mpox and why has WHO declared it a global health emergency?

For the second time since 2022, mpox has been declared a global health emergency as the virus spreads rapidly across the African continent and risks entering other continents. The World Health ... Read More

Their Student Debt Disappeared, but Their Financial Worries Persist

Getting tens of thousands of dollars in student debt canceled isn’t guaranteeing an immediately better financial life for Americans. So far, about 943,000 people have had their loans eliminated ... Read More

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In a separate incident, a 13-year-old Palestinian girl was also fatally shot, part of the rising toll of West Bank violence during the war in Gaza. Over a decades-long period, more than 30 ... Read More

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The move escalates a fight with China and world antidoping officials, and will cast a shadow over the Paris Olympics. Chinese state news and social media has been virtually silent about 23 ... Read More