Thu 12 January 2023: The White House confirmed on Thursday (January 12) that classified government documents were discovered at US President Joe Biden’s private residence in Wilmington, Delaware. The White House counsel’s office said in a statement that Biden’s aides discovered classified documents in two locations inside his home. According to the White House statement, […]
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Thu 12 January 2023: A video showing soldiers hurling a corpse onto a pile of burning rubble in Mozambique’s north “gives a glimpse” of what is happening in a “forgotten war,” Amnesty International said. The video, believed to date back to November, shows a soldier pouring liquid over the body as others, including one wearing […]
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Thu 12 January 2023: Chinese troops have slightly increased in number along the border close to the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, according to Indian Army Chief General Manoj Pande, although the forces are closely monitoring the situation. At a press conference ahead of Army Day, Gen Pande also said the Indian troops deployed along […]
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Thu 12 January 2023: Prince Harry has hit back at “hurtful” responses to his record-selling memoir, saying he was particularly upset by the “lie” that he had boasted that he had killed 25 people in Afghanistan when serving as a military helicopter pilot, Reuters reports. In his book “Spare“, King Charles’s younger son recounts his two tours of Afghanistan, […]
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Thu 12 January 2023: The production license of India’s Noida-based pharmaceutical firm Marion Biotech, allegedly linked with the deaths of children in Uzbekistan, has been suspended while the results of its controversial cough syrup are awaited, an Uttar Pradesh drug official said Thursday. A team of central agencies and the Uttar Pradesh drug department had […]
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Valery Gerasimov (L) replaces Sergey Surovikin (R) as the new commander of Russian forces in Ukraine. Thu 12 January 2023: After months of failures on the battlefield, Russia ordered its top general to take charge of its invasion of Ukraine in the biggest shake-up of its military command structure yet. The Chief of the […]
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Thu 12 January 2023: Tesla is nearing a preliminary deal to build production facilities in Indonesia with a capacity of one million units, Bloomberg News has reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter. On Wednesday, Chief Executive Elon Musk commented on a tweet referencing the report, saying: “Please be cautious about writing articles citing […]
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Thu 12 January 2023: Guantanamo’s legacy of abuse, injustice and ‘lawlessness’ gets worse with each passing year, former detainee says. Since the chaotic withdrawal of United States forces from Afghanistan in 2021, President Joe Biden and his top aides have repeatedly expressed a sense of achievement that Washington is not at war for the first time in […]
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Wed 11 January 2023: Ukraine must “be ready” at the Belarus border even though it sees only “powerful statements” coming from its neighbour, Zelenskyy said on Telegram. He spoke after visiting the Lviv region, where he discussed border protection and the security situation in northwestern Ukraine. “We discussed state border protection, the operational situation on […]
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Wed 11 January 2023: Amid the spread of Omicron subvariant in the United States, World Health Organization (WHO) officials on Tuesday urged all countries to recommend their travellers wear masks on long-haul flights. Catherine Smallwood, a senior emergency officer of WHO for Europe said that wearing masks “should be a recommendation issued to passengers arriving from anywhere where […]
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