Basel voters on Sunday overwhelmingly approved the city putting up nearly $40 million towards hosting next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, meaning the giant TV extravaganza will go ahead with its customary full-on razzmatazz.Final results showed 66.6 percent of voters in the Swiss city backed putting taxpayers’ cash into staging Eurovision 2025. The turnout was 57 …
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Romania’s pro-European Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu was leading in the first round of presidential elections Sunday according to exit polls, with the far right not yet assured of a place in the second round, despite a breakthrough in support.With 25 percent of the vote according to two exit polls, Ciolacu appeared to be well ahead …
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Israel’s military said Hezbollah fired around 250 projectiles into its territory from Lebanon on Sunday, with the militants saying their attacks targeted the Tel Aviv area and Israel’s south.The Iran-backed group said in a statement that it had “launched, for the first time, an aerial attack using a swarm of attack drones on the Ashdod …
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South Africa’s award-winning writer Breyten Breytenbach, an anti-apartheid activist who was jailed for his beliefs, died on Sunday in Paris at the age of 85, his daughter told AFP.A poet, author and painter, Breytenbach left his native country in the early 1960s to settle in Paris, where he became one of the most influential voices …
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Iran said on Sunday that it would hold nuclear talks in the coming days with the three European countries that initiated a censure resolution against it adopted by the UN’s atomic watchdog.Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said the meeting of the deputy foreign ministers of Iran, France, Germany and the United Kingdom would take place …
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Rich countries’ promise of $300 billion a year in climate finance brought fury at talks in Baku from poor nations that found it too paltry, but it also shows a shift in global political realities.The two-week marathon COP29 climate conference opened days after the decisive victory in the US presidential election of Donald Trump, a …
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Basel voters on Sunday overwhelmingly approved the city putting up nearly $40 million towards hosting next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, meaning the continental TV extravaganza will go ahead with its customary full-on razzmatazz.Intermediate results showed 66.4 percent of voters in the Swiss city backed putting taxpayers’ cash into staging Eurovision 2025.Swiss singer Nemo won Eurovision …
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The failure of UN climate negotiations to double down on a global pledge to move away from planet-heating fossil fuels on Sunday was decried by experts as a “worrying” setback to global progress on curbing warming.Nearly 200 nations spent much of COP29 in Azerbaijan locking horns over a tough-fought finance pact that was finally approved …
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Uruguayans voted Sunday, with the leftist alliance of celebrated ex-president Jose “Pepe” Mujica hoping to reclaim the country’s top job five years after a right-wing victory driven by concerns over crime and taxes.Former history teacher Yamandu Orsi of the leftist Frente Amplio (Broad Front) is going head-to-head with ex-veterinarian Alvaro Delgado of the National Party, …
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Pakistani officials announced a seven-day truce Sunday after days of bitter sectarian gunfights in the country’s northwest Kurram district that have killed at least 82 people and wounded 156 more. Pakistan is a Sunni-majority country, but Kurram — in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, near the border with Afghanistan — has a large Shiite population and the communities …
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