19-01-2023 LAGOS: On Sunday, Nigerian policemen repelled an attack by unknown gunmen on the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the southeastern state of Enugu. The incident has reinforced persistent doubts that Nigeria’s general elections will proceed as planned next month. Banditry in the North West, secessionists …
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19-01-2023 KYIV: The leadership of Ukraine’s Interior Ministry have died in a helicopter crash in a suburb of the capital Kyiv on Wednesday. “This morning, on January 18, a helicopter of the State Emergency Service crashed in Brovary. As a result of the crash, the leadership of the Ministry of …
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18-01-2023 PARIS: Up to 12,000 people marched Monday to the EU Parliament in the eastern French city of Strasbourg in support of Iran’s anti-government protesters while the Eiffel Tower lit the night with the slogan “Woman. Life. Freedom,” which embodies the protest movement spilling beyond Iran. The Eiffel Tower display …
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18-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ OTTAWA: Police in India have arrested two men in connection with the deaths of four people near the US-Canada border in January 2022. The bodies, including that of a three-year-old child, were found lying together frozen in a field in Canada’s Manitoba, 12m …
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18-01-2023 BRASILIA: Brazil’s attorney general has filed an indictment against 39 people for their alleged involvement in the storming of the Senate building on 8 January. The riot saw thousands of supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro attack government buildings following his election loss last year. The indictment says the …
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18-01-2023 WASHINGTON: The White House has said that there are no visitor logs available for President Joe Biden’s private home. Republicans have demanded to see the logs to his Delaware home after classified files were discovered there. On Monday, the White House counsel’s office said that it is not standard …
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18-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE: Russian and Belarusian flags have been banned from the Australian Open tennis tournament after a courtside incident. Spectators were initially permitted to bring the flags into Melbourne Park on the condition they did not cause “disruption” but the organizers reversed that decision on Tuesday, …
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18-01-2023 Vietnam’s President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has submitted his resignation after the ruling Communist Party found him responsible for violations and wrongdoing of numerous officials under him, the country’s official news agency has said. Phuc, 68, has held the largely ceremonial position for less than two years. It was not …
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18-01-2023 OCCUPIED EAST HERUSALEM: The new Israeli government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has already begun working on pushing through its far-right policies, after coming into office on December 29. The proposed changes would severely impact both internal Israeli politics and policies towards Palestinians in Israel and in the …
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18-01-2023 BEIJING/ HONG KONG: China’s population fell last year for the first time in six decades, a historic turn that is expected to mark the start of a long period of decline in its citizen numbers with profound implications for its economy and the world. The drop, the worst since …
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