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3 years agoUN Rights Report Warns Of North Korea ‘Starvation Risk’
North Korea’s most vulnerable are “at risk of starvation” with the economy worsening due to a self-imposed coronavirus blockade, and UN sanctions imposed...
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3 years agoWhite House Pushes 24-Hour Service To Relieve US Port Snarls
The Port of Los Angeles and its longshoreman union will provide 24-hour service to alleviate backlogs that have exacerbated global supply chain problems, seni...
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3 years agoKuwait Allows Women To Join Military In Combat Roles
Kuwaiti women will be allowed to enlist in the military in combat roles for the first time after years of having been restricted to civilian roles, the army said Tues...
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3 years agoGlobal Energy Prices To Retreat In Early 2022 – IMF
Energy prices, which have soared in recent days, are likely to remain high in the coming months but begin to retreat early next year, IMF chief economist Gita Gopina...
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3 years agoSomalia Comes Out On Top In Kenya Sea Border Judgment
The UN’s top court awarded Somalia control of most of a potentially oil and gas-rich chunk of the Indian Ocean on Tuesday after a bitter legal battle with neighbou...
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3 years agoSamsung Boss Goes On Trial For Drugs Charges
The de-facto leader of the sprawling Samsung group Lee Jae-Yong went on trial Tuesday on charges of illegally using the anaesthetic propofol, the latest legal travail to bese...
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3 years agoTop UN Court To Rule On Bitter Kenya-Somalia Border Spat
The UN’s top court will rule in a bitter border dispute between Somalia and Kenya on Tuesday, delivering a verdict with potentially far-reaching consequences fo...
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3 years agoFossil Shows Humans, Dogs Lived In C. America In 10,000 BC, Says Researchers
The fossil of a jaw bone could prove that domesticated dogs lived in Central America as far back as 12,000 years ago, according to a study by ...
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3 years agoG20 Leaders To Discuss Afghanistan In Virtual Summit
G20 leaders will hold a virtual summit on Tuesday to discuss Afghanistan, with the Italy-hosted talks focused on the humanitarian and security situation following the...
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3 years agoJust In: Macron Announces €30 Billion Plan To Re-Industrialise France
President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday announced a plan worth 30 billion euros ($35 billion) to re-industrialise France, saying the country should re...
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3 years agoThousands Evacuated As Floods Hit Northern China
More than 120,000 people have been evacuated, coal mines shut and crops destroyed after unseasonably heavy rainfall flooded north China’s Shanxi province over the weeke...
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3 years agoCzech President Rushed To Hospital, In Intensive Care
The Czech President Milos Zeman was taken to an intensive care unit on Sunday, a day after the country held a general election, his doctor said, IgbereTV reports. ...
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3 years agoFive Soldiers Killed In India
Suspected militants shot dead five soldiers in Indian-administered Kashmir on Monday in the deadliest incident since February, an army spokesman said, stoking tensions following a string of...
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3 years agoPope Meets Colombian Nun Released By Mali Jihadists
Pope Francis on Sunday met with Gloria Cecilia Narvaez, a Franciscan nun from Colombia, a day after she was freed by jihadists in Mali after more than four years of ca...
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3 years agoAfghans Flock To Iranian Border, But Few Can Cross
The number of Afghans attempting to cross the border to Iran has soared since the Taliban swept to power almost two months ago, but few make it across, an official said...
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3 years agoIndia Minister’s Son Arrested Over Deaths At Farmer Protest
The son of an Indian minister has been arrested on preliminary charges of murder, police said Sunday, a week after the death of eight people during a farmers...
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3 years agoUPDATED: 16 Dead In Russian Plane Crash
Sixteen people were killed when a plane carrying parachutists crashed in central Russia on Sunday, the emergencies ministry said, IgbereTV reports. The L-410 plane carryi...
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3 years agoAfter Deadly Shooting, Migrants In Libya Just Want To Leave
After escaping, with hundreds of others, from an overcrowded Libyan detention centre where guards shot dead six migrants, Sudanese refugee Halima Mokhtar Bshar...
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3 years agoHong Kong’s Oldest University Orders Removal Of Tiananmen Statue
Hong Kong’s oldest university has ordered the removal of a statue commemorating protesters killed in China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, accord...
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3 years agoSierra Leone Formally Abolishes ‘Inhumane’ Death Penalty
Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio on Friday signed a bill abolishing the death penalty, becoming the latest African state to ban capital punishment,...
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