Zelenskyy heads to Davos to regain the spotlight for Ukraine (www.politico.com)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in his stated quest to preserve his country, was once the darling of the global elite. Now he’s trying to avoid being just another bystander at their party....
Russia Threatens 'Imminent Retaliation' for Latvia’s Seizure of 'Moscow House' (www.themoscowtimes.com)
India shipped over $1 million of navy-grade fuel to Myanmar since coup (www.frontiermyanmar.net)
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Air in central Male’ unusually polluted - The Edition (edition.mv)
Nationalism to be taught in schools in new academic year (psmnews.mv)
Indian workers heading to Israel will receive no medical coverage or employment guarantee: Report (scroll.in)
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Myanmar Military Bows to Powerful Ethnic Army, Gives it More Towns Near China Border (www.irrawaddy.com)
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77 Groups Worldwide Back Genocide Lawsuit Against Biden in U.S. Court. The Biden administration is due in federal court later this month, while Israel faces charges of genocide at The Hague this week. (theintercept.com)
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US delegation praises Taiwan's democracy after pro-independence presidential candidate wins election (apnews.com)
Retired U.S. officials met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday and praised the island’s democratic processes under which it elected a new president and legislature over the weekend in defiance of China’s claim of sovereignty over Taiwan and threat to annex it by military force....
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Israel Bombed an Al Jazeera Cameraman — and Blocked Evacuation Efforts as He Bled to Death (theintercept.com)
“IT WAS AS if a storm had targeted us.” On the afternoon of December 15, an Israeli airstrike slammed into the Farhana school in Khan Younis where Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh and his cameraman, Samer Abu Daqqa, had just wrapped up filming the aftermath of an earlier bombardment in the area....
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Maldives supports all efforts made by China to achieve national reunification (psmnews.mv)
Gov't initiates creation of company dedicated to transshipment business (avas.mv)
Taiwan loses diplomatic ally to China days after presidential election (www.cnn.com)
Taiwan has lost another diplomatic ally to China just days after its presidential election in what Taipei said was both sudden and designed by Beijing to suppress the island’s “democratic achievements.”...
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Revisiting Dresden and parallels to Gaza (www.mindingthecampus.org)
There is a longstanding myth from the Second World War that the Allies killed hundreds of thousands of civilians by the sudden and shameless aerial bombing of Dresden, a beautiful city remarkable for its history and culture. That the bombing was a shameful war crime against innocent civilian German non-combatants was told by...
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UK Home Office to ban Hizb ut-Tahrir as terror group (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Pullout of UN peacekeepers has started, DR Congo says. – HICGI News Agency (hicginewsagency.com)
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Missile fire strikes a ship just off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, UK military says (abcnews.go.com)
A missile fired from Yemen struck a U.S.-owned ship in the Gulf of Aden on Monday, private security firms told The Associated Press....
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French woman ‘heartbroken’ after losing job in UK after Brexit speaks out (www.theguardian.com)
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A ‘cultural genocide’: Which of Gaza’s heritage sites have been destroyed? (www.aljazeera.com)
There are four museums in Gaza, and two have been levelled, the International Council of Museums-Arab (ICOM-Arab) confirmed to Al Jazeera…...
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Northern Group Rejects Call For Suspension Of Security Chiefs - News Agency Of Nigeria (nannews.ng)
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NUPRC Boss Seeks Collaboration With Police To Combat Oil Theft - News Agency Of Nigeria (nannews.ng)
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FG Expresses Commitment To Reposition Minerals, Metals Sector For Development - News Agency Of Nigeria (nannews.ng)
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Former chairman of state-owned bank China Everbright Group arrested over suspected corruption (apnews.com)
HONG KONG (AP) — The former chairman of state-owned Chinese bank China Everbright Group has been arrested on suspicion of embezzlement and bribery, prosecutors said in a statement Monday, amid an intensified campaign against corruption.
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North Korea launches a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile that can reach distant US bases (apnews.com)
North Korea fired a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile toward the sea on Sunday, South Korea’s military said, two months after the North claimed to have tested engines for a new harder-to-detect missile capable of striking distant U.S. targets in the region....