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BAFTA Sets Date for 2025 Film Awards — Global Bulletin

BAFTA CIRCLES CALENDAR The British Academy has confirmed the date of the 2025 BAFTA Film Awards, which will now be held on Sunday February. 16. As per recent scheduling arrangements, the awards — arguably the biggest film awards outside the U.S. — takes place two weeks before

Argentine Senate passes scandalous wage hike

Argentina's Senate Thursday agreed on a substantial wage increase for the Upper House which stirred controversies as the country grapples to make ends meet. The decision was reached after zero debate and Senators were also asked to raise their hands if they validated the

Morning Report — It’s crunch time on foreign aid

As a planned weekend vote on a foreign aid and national security legislation package draws closer, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is rolling the dice. Johnson, who leads a razor-thin Republican House majority, needs Democratic support to pass a series of bills that would provide

Palestine denied UN full membership through US veto

The United States exercised its veto power Thursday within the United Nations Security Council to cut Palestine short from full statehood and membership, it was reported in New York. Hence Palestine remained a “permanent observer state” with no voting rights within the global

Africa: Renewable Energy Transforming the Landscape

[UN News] Renewable energy, if supported by governments, can "truly change the landscape" in terms of achieving equitable access to affordable and clean energy, but only if those governments can move from "commitment to action"; That's according to the Director-General of the

Inside the Complicated World of Human Smuggling

Of all the individuals and institutions implicated in the global migration crisis, you’d be hard-pressed to find a figure more universally detested than the human smuggler. U.S. immigration authorities routinely vilify the “ruthless smugglers and transnational criminal