Mon 23 January 2023: Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is reportedly prepared to sell the Washington Post in order to purchase the NFL’s Washington Commanders. The New York Post is now alleging that Bezos is ‘looking to clear the way’ to obtain the Commanders from troubled owner Dan Snyder. The billionaire purchased the Washington […]
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Mon 23 January 2023: The EU intends to host a major event in Istanbul next month to commemorate the start of the Russia-Ukraine War, the bloc’s senior official in Ankara announced on Monday, Anadolu Agency reported. “We will organize quite a major event here in Istanbul after what would then be one year of the […]
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Mon 23 January 2023: Hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in the US continue to plague communities across the country, prompting the Biden administration to take action. The latest high-profile hate crime took place in the state of Indiana on Jan. 11, when an 18-year-old Indiana University student of Asian descent was stabbed repeatedly in […]
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Mon 23 January 2023: Defence and Military Veterans Minister, Thandi Modise, says she is confident that the multinational maritime exercise between South Africa, Russia and China that will take place over a 10-day period will benefit all three participating nations. “The envisaged exercise will benefit all countries involved through interoperability of the naval systems, joint […]
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Mon 23 January 2023: The upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey will take place on May 14 as declared by the country’s president. The announcement was made by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who intends to run for re-election, on Saturday addressing a youth convention in the Bursa province of northwest Turkey. On Sunday, a […]
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Mon 23 January 2023: The government of Canada has announced that it will pay more than $2 billion to hundreds of Indigenous communities to resolve a lawsuit seeking damages for the loss of language and culture brought on by residential schools. A settlement of 2.8 billion Canadian dollars ($2.1 billion US) was reached in the […]
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On October 1, 1999, Putin ordered a ground offensive into Chechnya. These forces are pictured on October 2. Sun 22 January 2023: Moscow’s invasion has echoes of the tactics it employed in conflicts in the North Caucasus, experts and survivors say. Kyiv, Ukraine – As Maryam watched an online video recorded in Ukraine of a Russian […]
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Sun 22 January 2023: Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, who held talks with Taliban, tells Al Jazeera some progress in the health sector made but much remains to be done. A UN delegation, which held talks with senior Taliban officials in Afghanistan, has made headway on women’s rights, the UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told Al […]
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Sun 22 January 2023: The possibility of a large-scale COVID-19 rebound in China over the next few months is remote as 80 percent of the country’s population has been infected, a prominent government scientist has said. Wu Zunyou, the chief epidemiologist at the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said on Saturday that the mass […]
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Sun 22 January 2023: The military administration of Burkina Faso has ordered the departure of French troops stationed there within a month. This latest indication of deteriorating ties between France and its former colony since a second military coup in September of last year comes from the official Agence d’Information du Burkina (AIB), which made […]
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