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Chile president-elect names female-majority Cabinet

Chile president-elect names female-majority Cabinet

Views: 1 Chile’s leftist president-elect, Gabriel Boric, announced his first Cabinet on Friday, giving a majority of posts to women and several to former student protest leaders. © Provided by DW For the first time in history, a majority of Chile’s cabinet positions have gone to women Boric said that the Cabinet’s priorities are managing the […]

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Chinese officials arrested for concealing true scale of flood death toll

Chinese officials arrested for concealing true scale of flood death toll

Views: 3 Officials in a Chinese province deliberately underreported or concealed 139 deaths from last year’s devastating flood disaster, the country’s central government has said, amid arrests of some of those involved. © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Record-breaking rainstorms hit Henan province in central China between 17 and 23 July, overflowing reservoirs, breaching riverbanks,

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Press Statement FESOJ Strongly Condemns the Closure of Radio Hiranweyn and Detention of its Journalists

Press Statement FESOJ Strongly Condemns the Closure of Radio Hiranweyn and Detention of its Journalists

Views: 2 Press Statement FESOJ Strongly Condemns the Closure of Radio Hiranweyn and Detention of its Journalists Mogadishu, Saturday, January 22, 2022, _ Troops under the command of Hirshabelle State Vice President Ahmed Hagar Dabageed has on Friday, January 21 2022, attacked the Radio Hiranweyn in Beledweyne city. The armed forces have stormed the radio

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‘Spin over substance’: Opposition accuses Govt of being ‘slow’ and ‘unprepared’ for Omicron

‘Spin over substance’: Opposition accuses Govt of being ‘slow’ and ‘unprepared’ for Omicron

Views: 1 © Newshub Watch: National Leader Christopher Luxon critisises the Government for being unprepared for Omicron after the announcement NZ is heading to the red setting. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Sunday morning that all of Aotearoa will shift into the setting as a result of an Omicron outbreak in the community. Going into

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

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

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

Turkey: Journalist jailed on suspicion of insulting Erdogan

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

Two Australian states to test school students twice weekly for COVID

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

Afghanistan: Taliban envoys arrive in Oslo for aid talks

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

Confusion in Nepali Congress over polls, particularly local elections

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 0 million U.S. defence aid arrives in Ukraine

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

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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