Wed 26 January 2022: Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, urged the international community on Tuesday to stop Russia from blackmailing the country and threatening a full-scale invasion. Lawmakers convened with this agenda amid continued tensions between Russia and Ukraine. During the parliament session, a resolution was passed on appealing to the United Nations, the European […]
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Wed 26 January 2022: Williams Lake First Nation unveils findings of preliminary search at former ‘residential school’ known for abuse. Warning: The story below contains details of residential schools that may be upsetting. Canada’s Indian Residential School Survivors and Family Crisis Line is available 24 hours a day at 1-866-925-4419. Canada – An Indigenous community in […]
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Wed 26 January 2022: The COVID-19 pandemic has been used in many countries as an excuse to curtail basic freedoms and sidestep important checks and balances, according to a new report that stresses the need to accelerate the fight against corruption to uphold human rights and democracy. The annual Corruption Perceptions Index from Transparency International […]
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Tue 25 January 2022: Asher Levy said, on Tuesday, he had quit as Chairman of Israeli spyware firm, NSO Group, but denied that his departure was linked to lawsuits or media coverage of the international furore that has erupted over the company’s Pegasus hacking software, Reuters reports. Levy told Reuters he had left the surveillance firm at the end […]
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Tue 25 January 2022: Troubles seem to find US President Joe Biden’s way nowadays. With tensions rife on several fronts like Ukraine, the president seems to have triggered a row at home too. The president was in the East Room of the White House for a meeting of his Competition Council, an economic group […]
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Tue 25 January 2022: Russian authorities have put Alexey Navalny, a jailed Kremlin critic, and a group of his supporters to an official list of “terrorists and extremists.” Local news outlets also reported on Tuesday that the federal prison service had demanded that Navalny’s brother Oleg be given a prison sentence instead of the one-year […]
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Tue 25 January 2022: President Cyril Ramaphosa has released the Special Investigating Unit’s (SIU) report into COVID-19 procurement to the public this morning. The report is a culmination of an 18-month investigation by the SIU into billions of Rands worth of contracts entered into by the state for resources related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some […]
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Tue 25 January 2022: Authorities in Greece have been accused of inciting a hunger crisis in refugee camps by denying people food. “It is unthinkable that people are going hungry in Greece. Through no fault of their own they have fallen through the cracks and all because of a problem created by gaps in legislation […]
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Tue 25 January 2022: Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister, is facing rising pressure after his office confirmed another Downing Street celebration, this time to celebrate his birthday in 2020. Johnson’s wife, who brought in a cake, organized the birthday celebration on the afternoon of June 19, according to ITV News. According to the broadcaster, […]
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Tue 25 January 2022: Russia was planning a “lightning war that could take out Kyiv” while adding that it ” would be a disastrous step”. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said amid tensions at the border with Ukraine, As NATO opted to send more troops to eastern Europe, Western officials stated it was up to […]
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