Tue 25 January 2022: Former Pope Benedict XVI admits to lying to a child sex abuse investigation when he said he incorrectly told German authorities he did not attend a meeting in 1980 while he was the archbishop of Munich. The confession came on Monday, after a report issued last week on abuse in the […]
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Mon 24 January 2022: Taliban and Western officials are meeting outside Oslo, Norway, for talks on Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis, which has worsened dramatically since the Taliban retook power last August, 20 years after being toppled in a US-led assault. The closed-door discussions with representatives of the United States, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, the European Union […]
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Mon 24 January 2022: Burkina Faso’s army announced that President Roch Kabore had been deposed, that the constitution had been suspended, that the government and national legislature had been dissolved, and that the country’s borders had been blocked. The takeover had been carried out without violence, according to the declaration, which was signed by Lieutenant […]
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Mon 24 January 2022: The United Kingdom’s High Court has ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can pursue his legal fight against extradition to the United States to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. While Assange was granted permission to appeal by a London court, the case must first be accepted by the Supreme […]
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Mon 24 January 2022: Beirut, Lebanon – Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri has announced that he will suspend his involvement in political activities and will not run in upcoming parliamentary elections. The Hariri family has dominated Lebanon’s Sunni political landscape for more than three decades since the end of the country’s civil war in 1990. In […]
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Mon 24 January 2022: On Monday, the European Commission proposed a €1.2 billion ($1.35 billion) aid package for Ukraine. “The (European) Commission proposes a new emergency macro-financial assistance package of €1.2 billion. This package will help Ukraine now to address its financing needs due to the conflict,” President of the European Commission Ursula von der […]
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Mon 24 January 2022: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a formal inquiry into Conservative lawmaker and former minister Nusrat Ghani’s allegations that she was dismissed as minister because of her Islamic faith. “The prime minister has asked the Cabinet Office to conduct an inquiry into the allegations made by Nusrat Ghani MP,” a […]
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Demonstrators protesting against President Kabore. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Mon 24 January 2022: According to several media sources, Burkina Faso’s President Roch Marc Christian Kabore was detained at a military camp by a squad of soldiers. According to sources, the president was apprehended by soldiers after gunshots was heard in various military barracks in the capital, Ouagadougou, on […]
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Mon 24 January 2022: According to a UK scientist who helped shape the lockdown strategy, Britain has passed the worst phase of the pandemic, but it should be prepared for some “possible bumps in the road.” Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London is an epidemiologist. In a report by The Guardian, he said, “I […]
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Mon 24 January 2022: Dozens of activists from China’s Uighur Muslim ethnic group marched in Istanbul, asking for a boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing next month in protest of the Chinese government’s treatment of the minority. Protesters gathered outside the Turkish Olympic Committee building in Istanbul on Sunday, carrying blue-and-white flags of the […]
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