McDonald's to leave Russia after more than three decades over Ukraine conflict
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The association between Russia and McDonald’s has been an old one.

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Japanese man receives entire town's Covid relief funds, disappears with the cash
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A bizarre story of a 24-year-old Japanese guy collecting 46.3 million yen ($358,857) in Covid relief payments was published in Japan Today.

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Next couple of months will be the most difficult, says Sri Lankan PM amid economic crisis
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Sri Lanka prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said in an official statement on Monday that the nation currently has petrol stocks for just one day

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US: Mother selling 4,000 ounces of breast milk to help ease baby formula shortage
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As many parents in the US are scrambling for baby formula in the wake of an acute shortage, a woman has taken it upon herself to ease the daunting

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Top 10 world news: Russia's chilling warning to NATO, Symonds' sister pens heartfelt note and more
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Russia said on Monday that the West should not have any "illusions" that the Kremlin will simply accept the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (N

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Anthony Fauci says he will resign if Donald Trump is re-elected as US president
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The relationship between the United States’ top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci and former president Donald Trump has always been quite roc

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Chancellor Olaf Scholz's SPD loses key Germany state to rival CDU in regional elections
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Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) has suffered a crushing defeat to its rival Christian Democratic Party (CDU) in a key state,

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After Finland, Sweden decides to join NATO; Putin says expect a 'response'
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Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson declared that her government has decided to inform NATO to become a member.

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Mariupol: Russia offers to evacuate wounded Ukrainian troops from steel plant
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Russia on Monday said it had agreed to evacuate wounded Ukrainian soldiers from besieged Azovstal steelworks in port city in Mariupol.

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China remark earned defense chief ‘security threat’ label
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Peter Dutton’s rhetoric on Beijing is “inflammatory and unnecessary,” Western Australia Premier said

Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan called Defense Minister Peter Dutton “the biggest threat to national security” on Monday, after Dutton called China’s sailing of a warship past Australia’s coast an “aggressive act.” While the sailing alarmed Aussie authorities, McGowan insisted that Australia and the US regularly do the same thing to China.

Dutton announced last week that a Chinese vessel had sailed south along Australia’s west coast, before hugging the coastline on its...

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Sweden and Finland refuse to extradite terrorists – Turkish media
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Ankara won’t support the Nordic nations’ NATO membership bids until they resolve their alleged support for terrorism

Sweden and Finland have rejected Turkey’s request for the extradition of people linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Gulen movement (FETO), Turkey’s Anadolu news agency reported on Monday. These groups are considered terrorist organizations by Ankara, and Turkey has threatened to block Sweden and Finland’s bids for NATO membership unless they clamp down on their operations.

According to the report, Turkey’s justice ministry had requested the extradition of six F...

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Russia compares Ukraine, Finland & Sweden NATO ambitions
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Unlike Kiev, Helsinki and Stockholm have no territorial disputes with Russia, the Kremlin press secretary says

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has explained why the NATO aspirations of Ukraine were more concerning for Russia than those of Finland and Sweden, which officially announced on Sunday that they were looking to join the US-led military bloc....

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Financial woes rising in EU following sanctions on Russia – polls
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More than half of Germans say their finances are in decline

New polling suggests an increasingly bleak state of personal finance for Germans in the face of sanctions against Russia. The trend is echoed, albeit less severely, in France and Spain as the EU struggles to rearrange its economy in order to punish Moscow. 

More than half of Germans say they are poorer than they were a year ago, a precipitous 11-point rise from the first package of EU measures punishing Russia for its assault on Ukraine, according to surveys held in February and May by global decision intelligence firm Mornin...

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Soaring cost of living forces Poles to change lifestyles
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With inflation surging beyond 12%, many Poles are keeping expenses to a minimum to get through each month, a survey shows

Poland’s cost of living crisis is forcing people to cut back on restaurants and driving, with 36% keeping expenses to a minimum to make it through each month, a new survey has revealed.

According to a poll conducted by ARC Rynek i Opinia, 38% of respondents who could previously afford “luxuries” have given up on them. A researcher for the polling group, Dr. Adam Czarnecki, said people are “limiting consumption,” piling pressure on the economy at a time of “...

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Covid swindler takes $358,000, evades justice
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A Japanese man fled with his entire town’s relief money

A 24-year-old Japanese man has disappeared after appropriating the equivalent of $358,000 in Covid relief money, intended for all the households in the town of Abu, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The entire sum was wired to him due to a clerical mistake by the town’s authorities, local outlet Japan Today reported on Monday.

The money was allocated to the Japanese town last month to distribute among its 463 households. The man in question was just one of many people eligible to receive funds.

However, the town authorities sent details...

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Hungary’s PM accuses EU of power abuse
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Victor Orban pledged to steer his country away from the “suicidal waves” of the West

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban in a speech to lawmakers has accused Brussels of power abuse and has also pledged to resist the EU’s agenda of “gender madness and a liberal Europe.”

On Monday, Orban took his oath of office after being elected in April for a fourth consecutive term. In his usual manner, the premier did not spare harsh statements when addressing parliament.

“Brussels is abusing its power every day, and it wants to force on us things we don’t want,” the prime minister said.

In Orban’s opinion, the EU leadership...

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Buffalo shooter used same symbol as Ukraine’s Azov – Russian diplomat
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The West will try to distract the public from this “awkward fact”, Russia’s deputy envoy to the UN says

Russia’s deputy ambassador to the UN, along with dozens of keen-eyed social media users, have pointed out that the suspect in Saturday’s deadly shooting in the US used the same Neo-Nazi symbol as Ukraine’s Azov Regiment.

Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, noted that the ‘sonnenrad’, or ‘Black Sun’ symbol, which adorned the manifesto published by the Buffalo shooter, has for years featured on the insignia of Ukraine’s Azov regiment and is a...

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