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Stories for December 30th 2024
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Monday, December 30th 2024 - 10:22 UTC
Cadbury dropped from royal warrants, apparently for still operating in Russia
For the first time in 170 years, chocolate maker Cadbury has been dropped from the list of royal warrants. The Birmingham-based chocolatier was awarded its first royal warrant as a chocolate and cocoa manufacturer by Queen Victoria in 1854, but it lost its royal endorsement under King Charles.
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Monday, December 30th 2024 - 10:19 UTC
Another virus mosquito-transmitted disease, ‘oropouche,’ extending in Brazil
A new virus, oropouche, is extending in Brazil and has become of concern to the country’s Public Health Ministry, since it was circumscribed to the Amazon Region but has now been reported in at least 22 states and 11.000 cases during the first half of December.
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Monday, December 30th 2024 - 09:36 UTC
Trump’s long late and lost attempt to take over Greenland
By Gwynne Dyer - From his purchase of New Jersey casinos to his proposed acquisition of Greenland, Donald Trump’s real estate deals have always been plagued by bad timing. The United States could probably have bought Greenland from Denmark in 1917 (when it did buy the U.S. Virgin Islands from the Danes), but he’s a century too late now.
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Monday, December 30th 2024 - 09:08 UTC
Uruguay: Mujica discharged from hospital
Former Uruguayan President José Pepe Mujica was discharged Sunday from a Montevideo Casmu sanatorium after undergoing a surgical procedure Friday during which a stent was placed in his esophagus to enable oral feeding, which had been hindered as a side effect of the radiotherapy treatment for cancer. On April 29, Mujica announced that he had a tumor in his esophagus.
