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Undoing Trump's legacy: Biden wastes no time in first 100 hours as president
The Observer 24 Jan 2021
On Sunday afternoon, the US will reach the 100th hour of Joe Biden’s presidency. Already, there has been a blitz of executive actions and a bewildering pace of change. Four years after Donald Trump set about undoing Barack Obama’s legacy, Obama’s vice-president appears to be returning the gesture with interest ... Read more ... Read more ... 05.44 ... Read more ... In ... ....
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Western Sahara rebels attack Morocco’s Guerguerat border
Al Jazeera 24 Jan 2021
Western Sahara’s pro-independence Polisario Front has bombarded the Guerguerat buffer zone under Moroccan control in the far south of the desert territory in an attack Rabat described as part of a “propaganda war” ... ‘Harassing fire’. A senior Moroccan official in Rabat told AFP news agency ... ‘Broken promises’ ... “We have waited 30 years ... ....
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Myanmar's displaced Christians rebuild lives on Yangon's outskirts
The Jakarta Post 24 Jan 2021
Shares. Hammering at bamboo poles to erect a stilt house, minority Christians who have fled conflict in northern Myanmar are building a sanctuary on the outskirts of Yangon. The small Christian community in the Buddhist-majority nation is part of 200,000 people displaced since 2018 by fierce fighting in northern Rakhine state ... Topics .. ....
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Brexit: NI garden centres struggling to get plants from GB
BBC News 24 Jan 2021
For Beth Lunney the impact of Brexit and the Irish Sea border started to become clear in late November. Along with her family she runs Saintfield Nursery Centre, a garden centre in County Down. She had been preparing for the new sea border, signing up to the government's Trader Support Service and liaising with her suppliers in England ... ....
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Jewish leaders use Holocaust Day to decry persecution of Uighurs
The Observer 24 Jan 2021
Leading figures in the UK Jewish community are using Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January to focus on the persecution of Uighur Muslims, saying Jews have the “moral authority and moral duty” to speak out ... In a recent letter to the prime minister, Marie van der Zyl, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said ... She told the Observer ... ....
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Chile regrets panic triggered by mistaken tsunami warning after quake
Korea Times 24 Jan 2021
Gettyimagesbank. Authorities in Chile said on Saturday they regretted spreading panic with a mistaken tsunami warning calling for people to get out of coastal areas following an earthquake in Antarctica. The interior ministry said on Twitter that a tremor of magnitude 7.1 struck at 8.36 p.m ... The tsunami warning for Antarctica was later lifted ... ....
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Dutch police arrest alleged Asian drug syndicate kingpin
Gulf Daily News 24 Jan 2021
Amsterdam. Dutch police said on Saturday they had arrested the alleged leader of a sprawling Asian drug syndicate who is listed as one of the world's most-wanted fugitives and has been compared to Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman ... "He was already on the most-wanted list and he was detained based on intelligence we received," Aling said ... ....
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Durant scores 31 as Nets hold on to beat shorthanded Heat
Manila Standard Today 24 Jan 2021
Kevin Durant scored a team-high 31 points as the new-look Brooklyn Nets solved some of their defensive woes on Saturday to hold on and beat the shorthanded Miami Heat 128-124. Kevin Durant #7 of the Brooklyn Nets celebrates his three point shot in the first quarter against the Miami Heat at Barclays Center on January 23, 2021 in New York City ... ....
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Nicolas Maduro says willing to establish 'new path' with US
The Times of India 24 Jan 2021
CARACAS. Venezuelan President said Saturday he was willing to "turn the page" with the US under President , calling for a "new path" after years of tension with 's White House ... According to the UN, more than five million Venezuelans have left the country since 2015, fleeing political and economic turmoil. Download ... Top Videos ... ....
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French leader tells child sex abuse victims ‘we believe you’
Federal News Radio 24 Jan 2021
PARIS (AP) — Amid a national French reckoning with sexual abuse of children by family members, President Emmanuel Macron told victims Saturday. “We believe you. You will never again be alone.” ... “Shattered lives in the sanctuary of a child’s room. Stolen childhoods during family vacations, or times that should have been innocent,” Macron said ... ....
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S. Arabia struggling to save face in Yemen: Danish political activist
Tehran Times 23 Jan 2021photo: AP / Armando Franca
Portuguese brave lockdown for presidential polls
The Times of India 24 Jan 2021
PARIS. voters have been asked to venture out despite the country's pandemic lockdown Sunday for a presidential election widely expected to see centre-right incumbent Marcelo win another term ... But observers have their eye on how a far-right challenger will perform -- and whether a plunge in turnout could produce an upset ... Download ... Top Videos ... ....
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Britain’s Boris Johnson presses Biden for new trade deal
Federal News Radio 24 Jan 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson made clear to President Joe Biden on Saturday that he’s eager to forge a new U.S.-U.K. trade deal ... would rejoin the Paris climate accord and the World Health Organization, according to a statement from Downing Street ... The U.K ... Insight by Zendesk ... Copyright © 2021 . All rights reserved ... ....
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'Choose, either I kill you or rape you': horrific accusations of abuse surge in Ethiopia's war
Independent online (SA) 23 Jan 2021
By Michael Georgy. Hamdayet, Sudan - The young coffee seller said she was split from family and friends by an Ethiopian soldier at the Tekeze river, taken down a path, and given a harrowing choice. "He said ... "The soldier ... forced a gun on her and raped her," Limeuh, who was volunteering with the Sudanese Red Crescent, said the woman told him ... ....
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