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Australian PM signals reopening borders to tourists ‘not far away’

© Reuters/LOREN ELLIOTT The international arrivals area at Kingsford Smith International Airport is seen after Australia implemented an entry ban on non-citizens and non-residents due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Sydney(Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday that the reopening of the country’s borders to international tourists may not be far away,

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U.N. chief to China’s leaders: allow ‘credible’ visit by rights envoy

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told Chinese leaders on Saturday that he expected authorities to allow U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet to make a “credible visit” to the country, including Xinjiang, the United Nations said. Guterres met with China’s President Xi Jinping and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the sidelines of

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Officials: Russia at 70 percent of Ukraine military buildup

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia has assembled at least 70 percent of the military firepower it likely intends to have in place by mid-month to give President Vladimir Putin the option of launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, U.S. officials say. © Provided by Associated Press In this photo taken from video and released by the Russian

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PROTEST GONE BAD : 14 KCCA Councillors, speaker dispatched to Kitalya

Kampala lord Mayor Erias Lukwago Fourteen councillors of KCCA, including the speaker Zahara Luyirika and her deputy Nasur Masaba, have been remanded to Kitalya and Kigo prisons after they were charged with inciting violence. The councillors were arrested in Kampala yesterday as they walked to meet vendors who were evicted from the streets in January.NTV’s

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Poland receives US army equipment in effort to bolster eastern flank against Russia

By Alicja Ptak © Reuters/AGENCJA WYBORCZA.PL A U.S. Air Force Lockheed C-130J-30 Hercules transport aircraft lands at Jasionka Airport near RzeszowWARSAW – U.S. military equipment has begun to arrive in Poland, the Polish defence ministry said on Friday, to reinforce NATO’s eastern flank as the West and Russia wrangle over Russia’s military presence near the Ukrainian

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Nicaragua court finds two opposition heads guilty of ‘conspiracy’

A court in Nicaragua has found two prominent opposition figures – among dozens arrested by the government of President Daniel Ortega in the lead up to last year’s election – guilty of “conspiracy”. Dora Maria Tellez, a former rebel who fought alongside Ortega and served in his government before becoming leader of the opposition Sandinista

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American hacker says he keeps turning off internet in North Korea

An American computer hacker says that he is behind a revenge attack that has crippled North Korea’s Internet several times in the last month. © Getty Images/iStockphotoAmerican hacker keeps turning off Internet in North Korea – Getty Images/iStockphotoThe hacker, who goes by the name P4x, says he had been targeted by the hermit dictatorship’s spies who cyber-attacked

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US COVID-19 death toll tops 900,000, despite receding case rates

It has been nearly two years since Patricia Dowd, a 57-year-old San Jose resident, died of the coronavirus, in early February 2020. Although the virus would soon change the global landscape, upending our world, at the time, most Americans were still unaware of the mysterious disease spreading across Wuhan, China. © Shannon Stapleton/Reuters, FILE A patient

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