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Having Narrowly Escaped A Coup, Putin’s Imprisonments Of Nalvany And Zhukov Should Serve As A Future Warning For The US
WorldNews.com 20 Jan 2021
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s defiant pledge to return to Moscow from Germany after surviving a poisoning attack and subsequent arrest has put strongman Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin in another bind ... He did the same to Yegor Zhukov in 2019 ... Pipe bombs were also found ... Strongmen....
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Trump signs last-minute order shielding Venezuelan migrants from deportation
The Los Angeles Times 20 Jan 2021
CARACAS, Venezuela — ... Trump signed an executive order deferring, for 18 months, the removal of more than 145,000 Venezuelans who were at risk of being sent back to their crisis-racked homeland. He cited the “deteriorative condition” within Venezuela as the basis for his decision ... will receive much-needed temporary immigration relief,” Sen....
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Wuhan Scientists Say They Were Bitten By Coronavirus Infected Bats While Collecting Samples
Yahoo Daily News 20 Jan 2021
Read full article. Buzz Staff18 January 2021, 7.15 pm·2-min read. Scientists of a laboratory in Wuhan in China, where the cases were first Covid-19 cases and the Covid-19 pandemic has been theorized to have originated, in a new video, revealed that they had been bitten by bats who may have been infected ... at a Wuhan wet sea-food market ... TRENDING ... ....
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Israel Security Officials Reveal the Top Threats They Face on Four Fronts This Year
Newsweek 20 Jan 2021photo: AP / Hasan Jamali, FILE
Incoming top US intelligence official vows to release report on Khashoggi murder
Press TV 20 Jan 2021
US President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for the United States’ top intelligence position has pledged to release an unclassified report on who directed the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi per a congressional demand that the outgoing Donald Trump administration defied ... We are closer than ever to getting #JusticeForJamal,” he added....
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Trump's exit: President leaves office with legacy of chaos
The Independent 20 Jan 2021
Donald Trump will walk out of the White House and board Marine One for the last time as president Wednesday morning, leaving behind a legacy of chaos and tumult and a nation bitterly divided ... Republicans under his watch lost the presidency and both chambers of Congress. He will be forever remembered for the final major act of his presidency ... SIGN UP ... ....
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In farewell address, Trump urges prayers for next administration without mentioning Biden
Gulf Daily News 20 Jan 2021
Washington. US President Donald Trump, in a farewell address released on Tuesday, urged prayers for the new administration of President-elect Joe Biden but declined to acknowledge his Democratic successor by name ... "We extend our best wishes, and we also want them to have luck - a very important word." ... allies ... 6 he was slow to condemn ... ....
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Greece: Parliament set to extend western coastal waters
The Oklahoman 20 Jan 2021
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Lawmakers in Greece are set Wednesday to approve legislation to extend the country's territorial waters along its western coastline from six to 12 nautical miles. Opposition parties say they will vote with the center-right government or abstain in the vote ... Associated Press ... ....
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Jack Ma makes first appearance since October
BBC News 20 Jan 2021
Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma has made his first appearance since Chinese regulators cracked down on his business empire. His absence had fuelled speculation over his whereabouts amid increasing official scrutiny of his businesses. The billionaire met 100 rural teachers in China via a video meeting on Wednesday, according to local government media ... ....
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Priti Patel says government should have closed borders last March to stop coronavirus
The Independent 20 Jan 2021
Britain's borders should have been closed in March 2020 to stop coronavirus, the Home Secretary has said. Priti Patel said she had advocated the measure at the time but suggested she had been overruled by others in government. She made the revelation in comments to an online meeting of Conservative party supporters on Tuesday evening ... Watch more ... PA ... ....
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Migrant caravan: Mexico presses US to reform immigration policies
BBC News 19 Jan 2021
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has urged the US to make major reforms to its immigration policy as thousands of migrants were blocked by police in neighbouring Guatemala. Mr Lopez Obrador said he was hopeful that President-elect Joe Biden would agree to work with Mexico and other countries on the issue ... That is what I hope." ... ....
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Conor McGregor lawsuit: Woman files multimillion-dollar personal injury claim against UFC star, says attorney
The Independent 20 Jan 2021
UFC star Conor McGregor is facing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit from a woman alleging personal injury, it has been reported. The matter relates to events said to have taken place in 2018. The woman’s attorney, Dave Coleman, told ESPN on Tuesday that the lawsuit had been filed at Dublin’s High Court on Monday ... Independent Rugby Newsletter ... SIGN UP ... Mr ... ....
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India's oil imports at near three-year high in December - trade
Yahoo Daily News 20 Jan 2021
India's crude oil imports in December soared to the highest levels in nearly three years to more than 5 million barrels per day (bpd) as its refiners cranked up output to meet a rebound in fuel demand, data from trade sources showed ... "This is the harbinger of a recovery in fuel demand and improving refining margins." ... TRENDING. 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... ....
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Israeli tanks target Gaza Strip for second night
Al Jazeera 20 Jan 2021
Israeli tank fire struck a number of sites in the Gaza Strip, including a residential home, in the second night of attacks on the coastal enclave. Local Palestinian sources said there were no casualties from the Israeli artillery barrage, but material damage was done to a house located in the Maghazi refugee camp on Tuesday night ... ....
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Zimbabwe's foreign minister dies of COVID-19 amid resurgence
San Francisco Chronicle 20 Jan 2021
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo, who gained prominence in 2017 as the military general who announced the coup against then-president Robert Mugabe on television, has died from COVID-19, the government announced Wednesday. He was 61 ... The coup ended Mugabe's 37-year rule in Zimbabwe and he later died in Sept. 2019 ... ....
