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Africa has become ‘less safe, secure and democratic’ in past decade, report finds
The Guardian 26 Jan 2023
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Israeli forces on high alert after West Bank gun battle kills nine Palestinians
Irish Independent 26 Jan 2023
Israeli forces have killed at least nine Palestinians, including a 60-year-old woman, during a raid in a flashpoint area of the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said.
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Why is Big Tech firing employees by thousands? And how worried should we be?In the ...
Deccan Herald 26 Jan 2023
By Nathalie Collins, Paul Haskell-Dowland and Jeff Volkheimer for The Conversation. Tech companies are always in the news, usually touting the next big thing. However, the tech news cycle recently hasn’t been dominated by the latest gadget or innovation. Instead, layoffs are in the headlines ... Also Read ... What’s the damage? ... Also Read ... Sign Up ... Twitter .
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Biden rallies Western alliance and gives Zelensky an ‘iron fist’ against Putin
CNN 26 Jan 2023
The more Russian President Vladimir Putin tries to break NATO, the stronger it gets. Not for the first time in the war in Ukraine, President Joe Biden took decisive action that closed fissures in the alliance ... This represented a significant symbolic, political and military win for Ukraine ... “He expected our support for Ukraine to crumble with time ... .
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Thousands rally for ‘Invasion Day’ protests on Australia Day holiday
FX Empire 26 Jan 2023
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Thousands of Australians marked the country’s national holiday on Thursday with rallies in support of the nation’s Indigenous people, many of whom describe the anniversary of the day a British fleet sailed into Sydney Harbour as “Invasion Day” ... 26 should be considered “Australia Day”, largely unchanged from a year ago ... Sign Up ... ....
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Ugandan students fear being sodomized in school, says nation’s Deputy Speaker
Life Site 26 Jan 2023
KAMPALA, Uganda (LifeSiteNews) — A leading Ugandan politician warned fellow parliamentarians about the effect of homosexuality in the country’s schools. Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa told parliament yesterday that he had heard “painful” and “grueling” stories of the homosexual influence being felt by students.
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Ukraine’s Odesa, the ‘pearl of the Black Sea’, added to Unesco World Heritage list
The Guardian 26 Jan 2023
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Former Colombian drug-trafficking magnate pleads guilty in US
Al Jazeera 26 Jan 2023
A former Colombian drug trafficker has admitted to overseeing a vast network of criminal operations and cocaine smuggling, including a violent paramilitary group known as the Clan del Golfo or the Gulf Clan cartel ... “Tons of cocaine were moved with my permission or at my direction,” he told the court ... He was extradited to the US in May 2022 ... .
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Israeli raids: Why have so many Palestinians been killed?
Al Jazeera 26 Jan 2023
Israel has continued to step up its near-daily raids across the occupied West Bank, killing numerous Palestinians over the past three months ... Civilians confronting the army during raids and uninvolved bystanders have been killed, as well as Palestinian fighters in targeted assassinations and during armed clashes ... What led to the uptick in violence? ... .
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Macron and Sunak could be on the verge of ending the cross-Channel hostility
The National 26 Jan 2023
The thaw in Anglo-French relations has begun. For the first time in five years, a British prime minster will attend a summit with a French president ... They will meet in Paris on March 10 ... It would be premature to attach weighty significance to these two events ... Yet, there is ample evidence that Mr Sunak and Mr Macron share a spirit of pragmatic respect.
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Taiwan leader: War with China 'not an option'
The Manila Times 25 Jan 2023
TAIPEI. Taiwan's leader Tsai Ing-wen told Pope Francis in a letter that war with China is "not an option" and said constructive interaction with Beijing, which claims the island as part of its territory, depends on respecting Taipei's democracy ... Taiwanese leaders are uneasy about Vatican's efforts to develop relations with Beijing ... ....
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Ethiopia’s PM Abiy Ahmed in Sudan on first visit since 2021 coup
Al Jazeera 26 Jan 2023
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has visited neighbouring Sudan on Thursday for meetings with army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, his first visit to Khartoum since a 2021 military coup there ... Sudan’s ruling sovereign council said in a statement that Burhan and Abiy held talks on “ways to strengthen and enhance bilateral relations” ... .
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Blinken will travel to Mideast amid US concern over violence
Metro USA 26 Jan 2023
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Egypt, Israel and the West Bank this weekend in his first trip to the Middle East this year, amid an escalation in Israeli-Palestinian violence, U.S ... The State Department said Thursday that Blinken would leave Washington on Saturday for stops in Cairo, Jerusalem and Ramallah ... .
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‘Cope with your own debt’, China tells US over Zambia debt relief
Al Jazeera 25 Jan 2023
The Chinese government says the United States should stop pressuring Beijing on debt relief for Zambia and focus on averting a government default at home, which could have repercussions for the global economy ... The US government has a cap of $31.4 trillion on how much it can borrow, and it reached that limit on Thursday ... .
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Top UN woman urges Muslims: Move Taliban into 21st century
Arab News 26 Jan 2023
UNITED NATIONS. The highest-ranking woman at the United Nations said Wednesday she used everything in her “toolbox” during meetings with Taliban ministers to try to reverse their crackdown on Afghan women and girls, and she urged Muslim countries to help the Taliban move from the “13th century to the 21st.” ... — United Nations (@UN) January 24, 2023.