Mon 19 December 2022: Tunis, Tunisia – A day after Tunisians largely shunned the parliamentary elections, the Democratic Current party, one of 12 political parties which boycotted the elections, is calling for President Kais Saeid to step down. Party leader Ghazi Chaouachi said the record low voter turnout is a clear message from the people to President Saied that […]
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Mon 19 December 2022: Russia’s military has targeted the capital of Ukraine with a series of drone attacks that once more hit “critical infrastructure.” According to officials, over 20 drones were sent to Kyiv and the surrounding area early on Monday. About 15 of the unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by air defense systems. Air […]
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Sun 18 December 2022: Streets in major Chinese cities were eerily quiet on Sunday as people stayed home to protect themselves from a surge in COVID-19 cases that has hit urban centres from north to south. China is currently in the first of an expected three waves of COVID cases this winter, according to the country’s chief epidemiologist, […]
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Sun 18 December 2022: The time is approaching for a negotiated peace in Ukraine to reduce the risk of another devastating world war, but dreams of breaking up Russia could unleash nuclear chaos, veteran U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger said. Kissinger, an architect of the Cold War policy of detente towards the Soviet Union as secretary of state under Republican presidents Richard Nixon […]
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Sun 18 December 2022: Argentina won the World Cup on Sunday after beating defending champions France 4-2 on penalties, following a dramatic 3-3 draw after extra time. Argentina keeper Emiliano Martinez saved Kingsley Coman’s penalty and Aurelien Tchouameni fired wide to give Argentina their first world title since 1986, and third overall. France had come […]
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Sun 18 December 2022: A few days after she criticized the government’s use of the death penalty on protesters, Taraneh Alidoosti, one of Iran’s most well-known actors, was detained by security forces in Tehran. She had earlier shared a photo of herself on her Instagram profile in which she was not wearing the hijab and […]
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Sat 17 December 2022: William Burns, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), cautioned Americans to use TikTok with “really careful” on Friday since the Chinese-owned video-sharing network has been blocked by numerous federal institutions, including the White House. Burns stated in an interview with PBS that he agreed with other US officials’ worries […]
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Sat 17 December 2022: “Good news that journalists are being reinstated on Twitter, but serious concerns remain,” tweeted United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk, after Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s decision to reinstate several journalists on the social media platform but said that “serious concerns remain”. The decision to suspend the accounts of […]
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Sat 17 December 2022: An Iranian media reported on Saturday that authorities had detained the attorneys for the two journalists who were imprisoned for covering Mahsa Amini’s death and the protest. The Ham Mihan daily said that Muhammad Ali Kamfirouzi, the attorney for a number of journalists and activists, had been arrested. According to Mohammed […]
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Sat 17 December 2022: A prominent dissident Sunni Muslim cleric urged Iranian authorities on Friday to free thousands of detained protesters and stop executions as the three-month-old unrest churned on with street marches in a restive southeastern province. Amnesty International said 26 people faced possible execution after the Islamic Republic hanged two people arrested over the protests that erupted […]
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