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Protests around the EU reflect common grievances over debts, price pressures, extreme weather and cheap imports, POLITICO has found. There was strong support from both Democrats and Republicans for the expansion of the Child Tax Credit and a trio of business tax breaks. We put the presidential hopefuls into categories based roughly on their chances to get the GOP nomination. The unofficial guide to official Washington, every morning and weekday afternoons. Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had vetoed the aid package in December but joined other EU members in approving it at a summit in Brussels. The privately-owned hangar was under construction Wednesday at Boise's airport.
Also among the top ten fastest growers month-on-month were dailystar.co.uk (35.3m visits, up 5%), nypost.com (109m, up 1%) and the website of Russian-state owned RT (131.8m, up 0.5%). BBC.co.uk and BBC.com combined came out on top with 1.3bn website visits in June. This was 10% more than in June last year, when both sites combined received 1.2bn visits. Mail Online (357.2m visits - down 5% year-on-year) and theguardian.com are, as in November, the other two British offerings in the top 10. Visits to the site of the UK tabloid were down 10% (90.3m visits) in contrast to the strong performance of its sister site in the US, the-sun.com which has performed very well in recent months.
Once again BBC.co.uk and BBC.com combined to come out on top in terms of total visits with 1.1 billion website visits in September. Newly-ranked msn.com came in second place, while CNN's sites (cnn.com and edition.cnn.com) counted 583.8 million visits together. Similarweb’s data for the BBC  does, however, include visits to BBC’s main site as well as its news offering while its data for MSN is for the entire portal. Of the top ten sites by number of global visits, CNN saw the biggest year-on-year fall in traffic (590.4 million visits- down 57%), according to data from web analytics firm, Similarweb.
Live Universal Awareness Map was followed by aljazeera.com (75.8m visits, up 168%), reuters.com (121.4m visits - up 76%), nytimes.com and RT.com (207.8m visits, up 58%). Yahoo Finance was the only top ten site that saw a year-on-year fall in traffic (visits were down 17% to 273.2m). The best-ranked British newsbrands after the BBC were dailymail.co.uk (in sixth place, 354.5m visits), theguardian.com (seventh place, 283.7m visits) and express.co.uk (ranked 19th, 100.6m visits). Of the sites that ranked in both October and November, Nbcnews.com (rank 28 in November, 98.1 million visits) gained the most places, jumping nine spots. The start of the war in Ukraine last February led to a surge in traffic for some newsbrands, which may be linked to this month’s year-on-year falls in comparison. It was followed by last month’s fastest-growing site cbsnews.com (up 25% to 61.9 million) and timesofindia.com (up 15% to 202.5 million).
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Hindustantimes.com, People and RT.com made the biggest jumps in rank compared to August, each climbing four places. The BBC retained its spot as the biggest newsbrand in the world with a combined one billion visits to the bbc.com and bbc.co.uk domains, although this does include visitors to its entertainment and other content. Mail Online recorded the smallest fall among the ten biggest sites by number of visits (392 million, down 5%). Similarweb data to dailymail.co.uk captures redirects from other Daily Mail country domains. The Times of Israel was the fastest growing news website in the world in October, according to Press Gazette’s latest ranking.
Overall, there was little change in the combined amount of visits to the current top 50 most popular news websites in July (6.8 billion visits) compared to June (6.6 billion visits). Combined year-on-year traffic remains 10% lower than in the same month last year, when there were a combined 7.6 billion visits to these leading 50 sites. The second-fastest growing site year-on-year was that of leading commercial Australian news broadcaster, 9news.com.au which saw visits increase 33% from 42.6 million to 56.7 million. It was followed by abc.net.au, which saw visits up 31% from 103.4 million to 135 million, while news.com.au was the fifth-fastest growing site with visits up 16% to 113.1 million. For the second month in a row Australian news sites dominated the list for the top five fastest growing sites in June.
Visits to CNN were up 6% year-on-year to 703.3 million, according to data from digital intelligence platform Similarweb, while visits to dailymail.co.uk were up 3% to 427.7 million. None of the ten biggest news websites in the world increased their traffic year-on-year in September. Press Gazette's monthly ranking of the top 50 news websites in the world, using Similarweb data. InYourArea aggregates all the latest news for your local area from news sites, blogs and social networks. We are the only service that gives you a 360 view of up to the minute updates on your area. The Federated Data Platform (FDP) is new software that will sit across NHS trusts and integrated care systems (ICSs), allowing them to connect data they already hold, such as vaccination and hospital records, in a secure and safe environment.
Last month Press Gazette reported that most of the world's top 10 biggest English news sites saw double-digit falls in traffic in November due to the effect of 2020's "Trump bump" which temporarily benefitted many sites covering US politics. Year-on-year comparisons however show a very different picture as January 2021 contained major news events such as Covid-19 surges and the Capitol insurrection and Joe Biden’s inauguration in the US. As in previous months where Press Gazette has reported traffic falls for most leading sites compared to one year ago, all of the ten biggest sites by number of visits saw significant year-on-year falls in traffic. Several of the world’s leading news sites including the BBC, New York Times and Guardian saw small month-on-month traffic increases in January. The biggest year-on-year growth overall, however, was to Live Universal Awareness Map (liveuamap.com) which had 74.8m visits, an increase of 3390% year-on-year.
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Visits to CNN.com and its non-US domain edition.cnn.com were up 7% year-on-year in June (708.4 million visits), in contrast to its performance in May when visits fell 9%. The BBC maintained its position as the biggest newsbrand in the world with a combined 1.1 billion visits to the bbc.com and bbc.co.uk domains, although this does include visitors to its entertainment and other content. The BBC was again the biggest newsbrand in the world with a combined 1.1 billion visits to the bbc.com and bbc.co.uk domains, although this does include visitors to its entertainment and other content.
Farmers have blocked highways for days across the country to denounce low wages, heavy regulation and unfair competition from abroad. Cases increased by nearly 80% to more than 207,000 between 2018 and 2022, according to the CDC. Rates increased among all age groups, including newborns, and in all regions of the country.
Among the sites that saw the falls in traffic year-on-year were politics-focused news site The Hill, right-wing news aggregator Drudge Report and business news site Forbes. Of the top ten sites only BBC.co.uk and BBC.com, express.co.uk and finance.yahoo.com saw small falls in the number of visits. Once again BBC.co.uk and BBC.com combined to come out on top in terms of total visits with 1.3 billion website visits in July.
(Similarweb data to dailymail.co.uk captures redirects from other Daily Mail country domains). Overall 29 sites in the top 50 reported year-on-year growth in October, while 21 saw a traffic slump. The English language Jerusalem-based site saw visits increase 604% year-on-year to 64.2 million and entered our top-50 ranking for the first time in 42nd place, according to digital intelligence platform, Similarweb. Month-on-month the status of the top ten news sites by number of visits echoed that for year-on-year changes with none seeing an increase in traffic when compared to October.
A recent order from the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) will allow developers of dating apps on the Netherlands App Store to use alternate payment processing options. These changes will compromise the user experience, and create new threats to user privacy and data security. In the meantime, we are required to make the mandated changes and are providing further details today which satisfy our legal obligations in the Netherlands while helping to protect users from these increased risks. Apple designed the App Store to be a safe and trusted place to discover and download apps.
The BBC maintained its spot at the top of the ranking as the biggest news website in the world (1.1bn visits). The New York Times was fourth while Google News came in fifth (500.1 million visits). Although it was well ahead of second-fastest growing top ten site, Microsoft news aggregator msn.com (888 million visits, up 16%) in terms of growth, visits to nytimes.com were 8% down compared to November. The BBC once again topped the list for number of worldwide visits at 1.2 billion. As in December, the order of the top sites remains unchanged from the previous month. The BBC once again topped the list for number of worldwide visits at one billion, although Similarweb’s data includes traffic to all pages within the bbc.com and bbc.co.uk domains and not just news.
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Make sense of the news wherever you are, whenever you like – online, in your app or by email. Among the sites that saw significant falls in traffic that month were sites from India. The timesofindia.com saw visits fall 18% from 211.4m to 147.1m between May and June, while visits to indiatoday.in were down 9%, falling from 81.7m to 63.5m.
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