Mon 14 February 2022: On Sunday, Canadian police arrested many demonstrators as they cleared protesters and vehicles that had blocked a crucial commerce route on the US-Canada border. However, by the time this report was published on Sunday, the bridge had not been reopened to traffic. Since Friday, police and protesters have been locked in […]
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Mon 14 February 2022: According to a statement released by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed rebels in Yemen, a communications infrastructure used for drone attacks and located near the telecoms ministry in Sanaa was destroyed on Monday. In 2015, Riyadh entered the Yemeni civil war to aid the government in its fight against the Houthi […]
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Close-up view of one APC-equipped company and tents at Oktyabrskoye. Image Credit: Satellite Images Maxar Technology. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Mon 14 February 2022: As tensions increase over a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, satellite imagery of Russian deployments in Belarus, Crimea, and western Russia shows a major build-up of military. Maxar gathered recent satellite pictures of Crimea, […]
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Sun 13 February 2022: On Sunday, Swiss voters went to the polls to tighten tobacco restrictions by banning practically all tobacco product promotion. A final tally of ballots revealed that over 57 percent of voters and 16 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons supported the near-total tobacco advertising ban. Switzerland lags considerably behind most rich countries in […]
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Sun 13 February 2022: Five United Nations staff have been abducted in southern Yemen while returning to Aden after a field mission, the United Nations said on Saturday according to a report by Reuters. The staff were abducted on Friday in the Governorate of Abyan, said Russell Geekie, spokesman for the top UN official in Yemen. […]
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Sun 13 February 2022: Stores owned by multinational firms, including KIA, Hyundai and Pizza Hut, forced to close in the western Indian state of Gujarat. Stores owned by several multinational companies have been forced to shut down by hardline Hindu groups in the Indian state of Gujarat after their Pakistan-based subsidiaries posted messages on social […]
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Ambassador of Russia to Sweden Viktor Tatarintsev. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sun 13 February 2022: Viktor Tatarintsev, Russia’s outspoken ambassador to Sweden, told a Swedish newspaper that Moscow “doesn’t give a s***” about Western sanctions over the Ukraine issue. “Excuse my language, but we don’t give a s*** about all their sanctions”, Viktor Tatarintsev told the Aftonbladet newspaper […]
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Sun 13 February 2022: On Saturday, shortly after a “Freedom Convoy” protesting COVID-19 restrictions arrived in Paris, French police shot tear gas at demonstrators on the Champs Elysees avenue. Protesters in cars managed to slip through police checks in central Paris, causing traffic to bottleneck around the Arc de Triomphe monument. The vehicles brandished French […]
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Sun 13 February 2022: A new UN report details a ‘widespread and systematic programme’ of abuse in Xinjiang as well as China’s vehement denial. China continues to carry out discriminatory work policies, such as forced labour, impossible production expectations and long working hours, against the Uighurs in its northwest province of Xinjiang, a United Nations committee […]
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Sat 12 February 2022: Russia announced on Saturday that it has withdrawn some of its diplomatic personnel from Ukraine, citing concerns over provocation from Kyiv and its allies in retaliation to similar steps by the US, the UK, and other countries. “Obviously, this is due to the fact that our Western colleagues apparently know something […]
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