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Russia’s budget surplus tanked in August amid sanctions and slowing natural-gas supplies to Europe
Russia’s budget surplus likely fell sharply in August on the back of sweeping sanctions and slowing energy exports. In the first eight months of 2022, Russia’s budget surplus declined to 137 billion rubles, or $2.1 billion down more than two-thirds from 481 billion rubles in the first seven months of the year, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing preliminary data from…
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Queen Elizabeth saw 15 Prime Ministers, signed over 4000 bills into law-British Parliament
‘Parliament has survived as an unshakeable cornerstone of our constitution and our way of life. History links monarchs and Parliament, a connecting thread from one period to the next … The happy relationship I have enjoyed with Parliament has extended well beyond the more than three and a half thousand Bills I have signed into law.’* The Queen’s famous red…
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Russian soldiers are dropping their rifles and fleeing in disguise to escape Ukraine’s counteroffensive, reports say
Russian soldiers tried to flee in any way they could, The Washington Post and Financial Times said.Some Russian soldiers stole bicycles, while others disguised themselves as locals, the reports said. Russian soldiers dropped their rifles and fled villages disguised as locals after Ukraine recaptured hundreds of square miles of territory in the Kharkiv region, multiple reports said Sunday. Ukrainian forces,…
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Ethiopia’s Tigray rebels say ready for AU-led peace talks
Ethiopia’s Tigray rebels say they are ready to take part in peace talks led by the African Union (AU), removing an obstacle to potential negotiations with the government to end the almost two years of fighting. The announcement was made amid a flurry of international diplomacy after fighting flared last month for the first time in months in northern Ethiopia,…
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Queen’s funeral for September 19
The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II will take place at 11am on Monday 19 September at Westminster Abbey, it has been announced. Details of the service and events in the coming days have been released by Buckingham Palace and the Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, who is responsible for the arrangements. It was announced earlier that the day of…
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Prince Philip’s body to be moved and buried alongside Queen
Prince Phillip’s body will now be removed from where it has been kept since his death in 2021, and taken to where the Queen’s body will be laid to rest. In 2021, Philip’s body was lowered 15 feet into the 200-year-old Royal Vault beneath St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle where it has remained to date. This was just a temporary resting place to await the death of the Queen one day.…
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How Queen Elizabeth’s net worth, homes will be bequeathed to royal family
While the monarchy as a whole is worth $88 billion, according to Forbes magazine, Queen Elizabeth personally was worth a fraction of that. But $447 million of her own personal money should be going to her family. Some of that money is inherited: She got $85 million when her mother died and a further $12 million from her husband Philip.…
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Jeff Bezos berates Nigerian-born US Professor over hate filled Queen Elizabeth’s Tweet
Amazon founder and one of world’s richest men, Jeff Bezos, has strongly berated a Nigerian-born US professor, Uju Anya, over her hate filled tweet on the death of late Queen Elizabeth II. When the news filtered out that the late Queen Elizabeth was under medical examination at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, Anya, a Carnegie Mellon University professor had expressed her…
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The Gambia probes child deaths linked to paracetamol syrup
The government of The Gambia is launching a probe into the recent deaths of dozens of young children from kidney failure and possible links to a paracetamol syrup, the country’s health director said. “Dozens of children [under the age of five] have died in the last three months,” The Gambia’s director of health services, Mustapha Bittaye, told Reuters on Thursday.…
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What happens at the Accession Council? The meeting where Charles will be proclaimed King
King Charles III will be proclaimed the nation’s new monarch at an Accession Council to be convened as soon as possible at St James’s Palace. The special meeting of the Privy Council is usually held within 24 hours of the death of a sovereign, before Parliament meets, and is the first official event the King will attend. While its solemn…
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