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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Views: 5 An American Airlines plane bound for London from Miami has had to turn around because a passenger refused to wear a face mask, the airline has said. © Reuters American Airlines Flight AAL38 with 129 passengers on board returned to Miami where it was met by police, it said. They escorted a woman
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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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Views: 4 The Taliban’s religious police have threatened to shoot women NGO workers in a northwestern province of Afghanistan if they do not wear the all-covering burqa, two staff members told AFP. © Javed TANVEER More women are wearing the burqa since the Taliban’s return to power even though there is no official national policy on
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