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In 2023, the total revenue of the world’s 100 largest weapons producers grew to $632 billion (€598 bio) a 4.2% increase from 2022. This is according to a new report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute SIPRI, which analyzes the business figures of the 100 biggest arms makers.

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Gregg Wallace’s comment that accusations of inappropriate behaviour against him came from “a handful of middle-class women of a certain age” has prompted an angry backlash. The MasterChef presenter faces various allegations of making “inappropriate sexual jokes”, asking for the phone numbers of female members of production staff, and undressing in front of and standing “too close” to women working on his shows. Ulrika Jonsson, who competed on Celebrity MasterChef in 2017, said she was “seething” while Kirstie Allsopp described his response as “unacceptable”. In a post on Instagram on Sunday, 60-year-old Wallace said: “I’ve been doing MasterChef for 20…

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Canada’s ambassador to the United States said Sunday that prime minister Justin Trudeau was successful in getting president-elect Donald Trump and key US cabinet nominees to understand that lumping Canada in with Mexico over the flow of drugs and migrants into the US is unfair.Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador in Washington, told The Associated Press in an interview that Trudeau’s dinner with Mr Trump on Friday was a very important step in trying to get Mr Trump to back away from threatened tariffs on all products from the major American trading partner.Ms Hillman was at Mr Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida…

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Photos of fentanyl users at an event organized by Facing Fentanyl, a non-profit awareness group made up of families impacted by this opioid, in New York City, August 21, 2023. SHANNON STAPLETON/REUTERS When Nabarun Dasgupta, a leading drug expert at the University of North Carolina, discovered the figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in May, he was “skeptical.” For the first time since 2018, they announced a 3% drop in the number of overdose deaths in the US in 2023, compared with the previous year. As the months went by, he had to admit it: the…

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Andueza asks not to look at the “dark clouds” that the PP puts on them: “We must continue writing brilliant pages”The general secretary of the PSE-EE, Eneko Andueza, has asked his party colleagues to forget to look up at those “dark clouds” that the PP puts over them, in reference to the accusations of corruption, because the socialist perspective must be in “continuing writing brilliant pages of the history of Spain.”“I am going to ask the PSOE as a whole to forget to look up to observe those dark clouds that some want to put over us. The PP, the…

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Updated Monday, December 2, 2024 – 03:12″Our main priority will once again be to win the municipal and regional elections of 2027 and return to govern throughout Spain.” This was the assignment Pedro Sanchez moved this Sunday to the more than 1,000 delegates who attended the Federal Congress of the PSOE in Seville this weekend, an appointment with which they have tried to grease the party machinery with a view to future appointments with the polls.Officially in these three days Become Premium from €1 the first month Take advantage of this limited time offer and access all web content I…

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Biden-gathers-with-Hunter-Biden-and-family-members-in-Delaware.jpg” />He has repeatedly promised not to do it – but on Thanksgiving weekend, Joe Biden claims to have spontaneously decided to pardon his son. He was about to be sentenced for making false statements during a gun purchase and for tax evasion. The president now sees this as a politically driven miscarriage of justice.US President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter on Sunday evening (local time), sparing him a possible prison sentence for weapons and tax offenses. Joe Biden is breaking his earlier promise not to use presidential powers to benefit his family members. The Democratic president had previously…

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