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Taliban leader pleads for help in first address
Russia Today 28 Nov 2021
The leader of the Taliban has delivered his first televised address since the group took power in Afghanistan in mid-August. He vowed not to interfere in other countries, and asked for international aid ... Read more Taliban reveals agenda of upcoming talks with Washington ... Think your friends would be interested? Share this story! .
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Fashion designer Virgil Abloh dies of cancer at 41
The Gleaner 29 Nov 2021photo: AP / Kirsty Wigglesworth
Guardian accused of sitting on bombshell story about Assange
Russia Today 28 Nov 2021
The Guardian newspaper reportedly knew about alleged spying on Julian Assange by a CIA-connected security firm long before it became public knowledge – and pumped the company for information instead of reporting the espionage ... It cited communications between the security firm UC Global and The Guardian ... .
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Dead dolphins, extortion, bullets in Italy's mafia 'maxi-trial'
Straits Times 28 Nov 2021
LAMEZIA TERME, ITALY (AFP) - A dead dolphin on a doormat and windows smashed with sledgehammers. Weapons stored in cemetery chapels. Bribes to judges for acquittals, and bogus medical certificates letting convicted killers dodge prison ... Payoffs and public servants ... They are accused of procuring weapons, gathering votes or delivering messages ... PHOTO. AFP.
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‘More money than God:’ Chinese titan lavished Hunter Biden with 3-carat gem, offer of $30 million
New York Post 28 Nov 2021
The Biden family offered their services to a huge, Chinese-government-linked energy consortium to expand its business around the world. How do we know? Because of hundreds of emails documenting the deal found on Hunter Biden’s laptop, left in a Delaware repair shop in April 2019 ... Gilliar had an idea who could help. The Biden family ... . see also ... report.
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Stowaway found in landing gear of plane after flight from Guatemala to Miami
The Hill 28 Nov 2021
Officials discovered a 26-year-old man inside an aircraft’s landing gear compartment after a flight from Guatemala landed in Miami on Saturday morning, NBC News reported. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a statement that the man was being evaluated at a hospital after he was discovered on the flight ... "Do not come." ... ....
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Low Expectations on Nuclear Talks as Iran Creates Facts on the Ground
Hamodia 28 Nov 2021
World powers and Iran return to Vienna on Monday for a last ditch effort to salvage a 2015 nuclear deal, but few expect a breakthrough as Tehran’s atomic activities rumble on in an apparent bid to gain leverage against the West. Diplomats say time is running low to resurrect the pact, which then-U.S ... and European diplomats consider unrealistic.
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Bee aware: do you know what is in that cheap jar of honey?
The Observer 28 Nov 2021
British beekeepers are calling for a requirement on supermarkets and other retailers to label cheap honey imports from China and other nations with the country of origin after claims that part of the global supply is bulked out with sugar syrup ... Supermarket own-label honey from China can be bought for as little as 69p a jar ... Photograph ... Read more ... .
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Philippines Suspends Decision To Allow Vaccinated Tourists Entry
NDTV 29 Nov 2021
The Philippines has temporarily suspended a decision to allow fully vaccinated tourists entry in a bid to prevent a new, heavily mutated coronavirus variant taking off in the country where most of the... .
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi due to hear first verdict in junta trial
Manila Standard Today 28 Nov 2021
Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to hear the verdict in her incitement trial on Tuesday, the first in a catalogue of judgements to be handed down in a junta court that could jail her for decades ... More than 1,200 people have been killed and over 10,000 arrested in a crackdown on dissent, according to a local monitoring group ... .
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The British Army is becoming an American auxiliary force
The Spectator 27 Nov 2021
What are the armed forces for? This is the question that hangs over every defence review, and one that recent governments have been averse to answering. The problem is this. since the end of the Cold War, defence has gradually slipped further and further down the political priority list ... But we might not like the answer ... .
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New Zealand Politician Bikes to Hospital to Give Birth
Democratic Underground 28 Nov 2021
Oh, those down to earth women politicians from New Zealand!. snip. Pregnant New Zealand politician, 41, goes into labour so hops on her BIKE to hospital to give birth ... snip ... Note ... .
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Djokovic 'probably won't' play Aus Open, says player's father
Supersport 28 Nov 2021
Novak Djokovic "probably won't" play the Australian Open in January over mandatory Covid vaccination rules, the world No 1's father said on Sunday, likening the restrictions to "blackmail".","content"."Novak Djokovic ...
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Japan to bar new foreign arrivals over virus variant: PM
News24 29 Nov 2021
Japan will reinstate tough border measures, barring all new foreign arrivals over the Omicron Covid variant, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced Monday, just weeks after a softening of strict entry rules ... .
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