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AFP:El Salvador’s Bukele seeks emergency powers over spike in gang killings

Views: 0© MARVIN RECINOS Gang violence has soared in El Salvador in recent days, with 62 killings reported on Saturday alone El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Saturday urged lawmakers to declare a state of emergency after authorities arrested dozens of gang members over a recent wave of bloodshed. Gang violence has soared in El Salvador in […]

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Reuters:Australia flags move on high fuel prices as election nears

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Views: 0© Reuters/POOL Australia’s Treasurer Josh Frydenberg attends the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting in Jakarta (Reuters) -Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on Sunday indicated the federal government would likely act to lower petrol prices in the upcoming federal budget, weeks out from a general election. The government has recently come under pressure to

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The Punch:2023: APC tickets mustn’t go to highest bidders – Buhari

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Views: 0The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Saturday stated that the All Progressives Congress must not sell its tickets to the highest bidders or impose candidates on the party ahead of the 2023 general elections. This is just as the President’s anointed candidate, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, emerged the national chairman of the APC

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The Guardian:US denies it is seeking regime change in Russia after Biden comments

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Views: 0 The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has insisted the country does not have “a strategy of regime change in Russia – or anywhere else”, hours after President Joe Biden described Vladimir Putin as a “butcher” who “cannot remain in power”.Blinken’s intervention is the latest White House attempt to walk back the

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Reuters:French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen heckled by protesters in Guadeloupe

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Views: 0 © Reuters/POOL FILE PHOTO: Show “La France face a la guerre” (France in the Face of War) broadcasted on French TV channel TF1 PARIS (Reuters) – Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen was jeered by protesters in the French overseas territory of Guadeloupe, who streamed into a hotel where she was recording a

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Reuters:Oscars weekend kicks off with honors for Samuel L. Jackson, Danny Glover

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Views: 0 © Reuters/MARIO ANZUONI The 12th Governors Awards at The Ray Dolby Ballroom in Los AngelesBy Lisa RichwineLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hollywood ushered in the Academy Awards weekend by bestowing honorary Oscars to Samuel L. Jackson and other movie industry veterans on Friday, for their decades of film and humanitarian work.© Reuters/MARIO ANZUONI The 12th Governors

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Reuters:Telegram joins program from Brazil’s Electoral Court to fight fake news

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Views: 0© Reuters/Dado Ruvic FILE PHOTO: Illustration of a 3D printed Telegram logo on a computer motherboard (Reuters) – Messaging app Telegram on Friday signed an agreement to join a program created by Brazil’s Electoral Court to combat misinformation ahead of the country’s presidential election in October, the court said on its website. Telegram was the

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Uganda gets Anita Among Annet as the new Speaker and Thomas Tayebwa as the Deputy Speaker of Parliament

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Views: 0 The new Speaker Of Parliament Rt.Hon.Anita Among Annet displays one of the Instruments of Power soon after winning the elections presided over by Uganda’s President Gen Yoweri Museveni 25th March,2022.Photo by Ronald Kabuubi/KMA Updates. The new Speaker Of Parliament Rt.Hon.Anita Among Annet with President Yoweri Museveni Gen Yoweri Museveni 25th March,2022.Photo by Ronald

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Elections for Speaker Of Parliament today

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Views: 0Kampala, Uganda Ugandan legislators will today go to polls to vote the Speaker and the Deputy respectively. Anita Among Annet for Speakership on the NRM ticket. NRM endorsed Anita Among Annet for Speakership and Thomas Tayebwa for Deputy Speaker. The Opposition Members of Parliament last endorsed Bugiri Municipality MP Asuman Basalirwa, and Kioga County

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The Independent:Kremlin accuses Boris Johnson of being ‘most active anti-Russian leader’

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Views: 0Downing Street has rejected a Kremlin claim that Boris Johnson is “anti-Russian”, saying: “The prime minister is one of the most active anti-Putin leaders. We have no issue with the Russian people” © AP Un poco The rebuff came after Russian president Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov described Mr Johnson as “the most active participant

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