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World's best cities for food, 2023.

1. 🇪🇸 San Sebastian
2. 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv
3. 🇮🇹 Naples
4. 🇲🇽 Mexico City
5. 🇪🇸 Malaga
6. 🇨🇦 Quebec City
7. 🇦🇺 Melbourne
8. 🇨🇦 Victoria
9. 🇮🇹 Rome
10. 🇰🇷 Seoul

(Conde Nast Traveller)

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Unemployment

🇪🇸 Spain: 11.27%
🇸🇪 Sweden: 9.4%
🇫🇷 France: 7.3%
🇮🇹 Italy: 7%
🇵🇹 Portugal: 6.7%
🇦🇹 Austria: 6.4%
🇩🇪 Germany: 6%
🇵🇱 Poland: 4.9%
🇬🇧 UK: 4.4%
🇳🇴 Norway: 4.1%
🇳🇱 Netherlands: 3.6%
🇷🇺 Russia: 2.4%
🇨🇭 Switzerland: 2.3%

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Intel market cap

2nd of January, 2024: $202 billion

Now: $84 billion

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🇬🇧 UK election, seats won.

Labour: 412
Conservatives: 121
Lib Dems: 71
SNP: 9
Reform UK: 4
Green: 4
Other: 27

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🇬🇧 UK share of global GDP (PPP)

1980: 4%

2000: 3.1%

2023: 2.2%

(IMF)

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🇬🇧 UK government debt as share of GDP

2003: 35%

2023: 104%

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Government debt as a share of GDP, 2023.

🇮🇹 Italy: 143%
🇫🇷 France: 110%
🇪🇸 Spain: 107%
🇬🇧 UK: 104%
🇩🇪 Germany: 65%
🇵🇱 Poland: 49%
🇳🇱 Netherlands: 49%
🇷🇺 Russia: 21%

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Cities/regions with most millionaires.

🇺🇸 New York City: 349,500
🇺🇸 The Bay Area: 305,700
🇯🇵 Tokyo: 298,300
🇸🇬 Singapore: 244,800
🇬🇧 London: 227,000
🇺🇸 Los Angeles: 212,100
🇫🇷 Paris and Ile-de-France: 165,000
🇦🇺 Sydney: 147,000
🇭🇰 Hong Kong: 143,400

(Henley and Partners)

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JUST IN: Over 1,000 small armed drones set to be sold to Taiwan as part of deal with the US worth $360 million

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🚨 G7 leaders set to reach agreement to give Ukraine $50 billion of aid from the profits of seized Russian assets.

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🚨#BREAKING: Russia suspends trading in dollars and euros on the Moscow exchanges.

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🚨#BREAKING: Fauci's department concealed plans to create a mutant monkeypox virus in 2015, according to a bombshell Congressional report.

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🚨 CNN reports, based on FBI data, that violent crime has dropped by over 15% in the United States in the first three months of 2024.

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ISRAEL: Reuters reports that the parliament has 'moved ahead with a contentious law on conscripting ultra-Orthodox religious students into the military'

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JUST IN: Reuters reports Intel is 'halting plans for a $25 billion factory' in Israel

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🚨#BREAKING: North Korea has sent hundreds of balloons carrying garbage over the border with South Korea since yesterday

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🚨#BREKAING: Former Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, who is missing after his plane crashed northwest of Seattle, took this famous photo, "Earthrise", in 1968.

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🚨#BREAKING: Trump’s conviction could likely be declared a mistrial after a person claiming to be the cousin of a juror posted the day before the conviction on the court’s Facebook page that Trump was getting convicted, pending confirmation.

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JUST IN: Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen assaulted in Copenhagen, suspect in custody - official