Month: January 2024

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Guinness World Records Has Doubts About Age of World’s Oldest Dog

LISBON, Portugal — Bobi the Dog’s title as the world’s oldest canine was suspended on Tuesday after Guinness World Records officials began to have doubts about his real age.  He died in October at the official age of 31 years and 165 days, eight months after the record-breakers’ hall of fame declared on its website that he was the world’s oldest living dog. The purebred Rafeiro — a Portuguese race of livestock guard dog whose life expectancy is usually 12 to 14 years — was also declared the oldest dog ever, breaking a nearly century-old record held by an Australian cattle …

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Turkey’s Sanction-Busting Faces Growing Scrutiny

Washington is stepping up efforts to enforce sanctions against Russia with secondary sanctions meant to stop Turkey from helping Moscow and its trading partners circumvent trade restrictions over the war in Ukraine. As Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul, analysts say the success or failure of the sanctions will depend on how much nations stand to lose by restricting commercial links with Russia. …

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At Davos Summit, Zelenskyy Tries to Keep Ukraine at Top of Global Agenda

london — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged political and business leaders gathering at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday to give more military aid to his country or risk Russia attacking other nations amid fears in Kyiv that the war is slipping off the top of the global agenda. With much attention focused on conflict in the Middle East and Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, Zelenskyy used the Davos stage to remind the world what is at stake in his country’s war against Russian invaders. “If anyone thinks that this is …

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EU Adds Hamas Gaza Leader Sinwar to Terrorist List

BRUSSELS — The European Union on Tuesday added Hamas Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar to its terrorist sanctions blacklist over the October 7 attacks on Israel. The move means that the accused mastermind of the attacks is subject to having his assets frozen in the 27-nation bloc and bans EU citizens from conducting transactions with him. Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas is already listed as a terrorist organization by the EU. The October attacks, the worst in Israel’s history, resulted in about 1,140 deaths, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures. Militants also dragged about 250 hostages back to …

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Oxfam Report: Growing Inequality Could See World’s First Trillionaire

London — As hundreds of world leaders and chief executives headed to the Swiss ski resort of Davos Monday for this year’s five-day annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Oxfam is warning of a growing gulf of inequality fueled by corporate power. “The world’s richest five men have more than doubled their fortunes this decade since 2020 … while nearly 5 billion people have been made poorer. At current rates, the world will see its first trillionaire within a decade, while it will take over two centuries to end poverty,” said Nabil Ahmed of Oxfam America. Decade of division …

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