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Ugandan president’s son visits Rwanda in sign of warming ties

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Views: 7 Rwanda and Uganda on Saturday said they had held “cordial” talks on improving relations after Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son of Uganda’s president, met with Rwandan President Paul Kagame in Kigali. © PETER BUSOMOKE The son of Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, Major General Muhoozi Kainerugaba (pictured May 2016) was received by Rwandan President paul Kagame […]

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Turkey: Journalist jailed on suspicion of insulting Erdogan

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Views: 1 Turkish journalist Sedef Kabas risks up to four years in jail for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. © Provided by DW Kabas has been detained before for a tweet suggesting a cover-up in a government corruption scandalPolice detained her in the early hours of Saturday morning, and a court ordered her to remain

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Two Australian states to test school students twice weekly for COVID

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Views: 3 SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia reported 58 deaths from COVID-19 on Sunday, as the two most populous states, New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria, said students would be tested twice weekly for the Omicron variant when classes resume next week. © Reuters/Loren Elliott Children return to campus for the first day of New South Wales

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Afghanistan: Taliban envoys arrive in Oslo for aid talks

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Views: 3 A Taliban delegation landed in Oslo, Norway, late Saturday for three days of meetings with Western officials. The talks, scheduled to run until Tuesday, will mark the Taliban’s first meeting with Western diplomats in Europe since the group seized power in Afghanistan in August last year. © Provided by DW The Taliban delegation is

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Confusion in Nepali Congress over polls, particularly local elections

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Views: 3 Kathmandu, Jan. 23 — As the debate is raging over when to hold the elections, especially after Maoist chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal suddenly proposed federal elections in April-May by delaying local polls, the Nepali Congress appears to be in a state of confusion. © Thomson Reuters FILE – Nepal’s Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba

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First part of $200 million U.S. defence aid arrives in Ukraine

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Views: 3 KYIV (Reuters) – The first shipment of the United States’ $200 million security support package for Ukraine arrived in Kyiv, the U.S. Embassy said on Saturday. The delivery followed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Kyiv this week amid concerns from Kyiv and its Western allies over tens of thousands of

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US embassy in Ukraine ‘requests staff evacuation’ amid war fears

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Views: 0 The US embassy in Ukraine has requested the evacuation of all non-essential staff amid increasing fears of an imminent Russian invasion and the arrival overnight of arms deliveries promised by President Joe Biden, according to a CNN report. © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Reuters US evacuations are likely to start “as early as

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Sudan deputy leader meets Ethiopia defence minister on rare visit

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Views: 2 Sudan’s second most powerful leader met with Ethiopia’s defence minister Saturday on a rare visit to Addis Ababa by an official from Khartoum, that comes amid border tensions, officials said. © Ebrahim HAMID Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, widely known as Hemeti and who is number two in Sudan’s ruling council, seen here in a October

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Taliban say Oslo talks with West will ‘transform atmosphere of war’

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Views: 2 The Taliban’s first official talks with the West on European soil since seizing power in Afghanistan will help to “transform the atmosphere of war” after a two-decade insurgency against NATO forces, the group’s top spokesman told AFP Saturday. © – Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the Islamist’s first official talks with the West seizing

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