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Pakistan floods litmus test for climate justice: Guterres
Dawn 29 Sep 2023
UNITED NATIONS. The United Nations has revived efforts to persuade the international community to fulfill the pledges they made last year to help Pakistan rebuild as the UN chief called the 2022 floods a ‘litmus test’ for climate justice. Triggered by torrential monsoon rains, the 2022 floods submerged one third of Pakistan ... .
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Scourge of Illegal Immigrants? Sweden PM to Seek Army Help to End Gang Violence
News18 29 Sep 2023photo: AP / Altaf Qadri
India-Canada standoff: Trudeau wants ‘closer ties’ with India; probe into Nijjar’s killing ‘active and ongoing’
Financial Express 29 Sep 2023
Amid tensions between India and Canada, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Thursday met with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and the duo discussed 'a full range of issues, including key outcomes of India\u2019s G20 presidency, and the creation of the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor' ... Also exchanged notes on global developments ... S.
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The fall of an enclave in Azerbaijan stuns the Armenian diaspora, extinguishing a dream
The News-Gazette 29 Sep 2023
BEIRUT (AP) — The swift fall of the Armenian-majority enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijani troops and exodus of much of its population has stunned the large Armenian diaspora around the world. Traumatized by genocide a century ago, they now fear the erasure of what they consider a central and beloved part of their historic homeland ... On Sept ... .
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Brazil's President Lula set to undergo hip replacement surgery
The News-Gazette 29 Sep 2023
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is scheduled to undergo hip replacement surgery Friday, a procedure likely to put a temporary halt to his frequent international trips but otherwise not disrupt his activities ... The Brazilian newspaper O Globo said Thursday that Lula would use a walker ... But in July, he said that U.S ... .
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More than 3 million children displaced from homes in Sudan
The New Arab 29 Sep 2023
The conflict in Sudan has reached a grim new milestone, with the country now holding the highest number of internally displaced people on earth ... Millions of desperate families fleeing conflict are now sheltering wherever they can find safety, including in schools, in camps, with relatives, and in some cases out in the open ... ....
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7 killed, over 25 injured in blast in SW Pakistan
Xinhua 29 Sep 2023
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Corruption is as American as apple pie
Al Jazeera 28 Sep 2023
On September 22, influential United States Senator Bob Menendez was indicted on corruption charges along with his wife, Nadine. It is the second time Menendez, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has faced such charges ... As the old saying goes, power tends to corrupt ... Corruption is about as American as apple pie ... WOW!!!” ... .
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Ukraine war: Who has the real mobilization problem?
Asiatimes 29 Sep 2023
When Vladimir Putin called for a partial mobilization in September 2022 it was a sign to ordinary Russians that – despite all the Kremlin’s denials – this was no longer a “special military operation” but a real war ... Yet there have been persistent rumors that a new mobilization is imminent ... It warned eligible draftees to flee Russia ... OR ... Latest stories.
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Poland says it will uphold its veto on EU migration pact
The Times of India 29 Sep 2023photo: AP / Vasily Krestyaninov
Nagorno-Karabakh to dissolve, ending independence bid
Taipei Times 28 Sep 2023
REFUGEES. Over half of the population has fled, as Armenia accused Azerbaijan of conducting ‘ethnic cleansing’ and urged the world to act. AFP, YEREVAN. Nagorno-Karabakh’s long and bloody dream of independence ended yesterday with a decree declaring that the ethnic Armenian statelet in Azerbaijan would cease to exist at the end of the year ... .
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NATO’s secretary-general meets with Zelenskyy to discuss battlefield and ammunition needs in Ukraine
Financial Express 28 Sep 2023
Ukraine said without providing supporting evidence that the attack had killed 34 officers and wounded 105 others. Follow Us ... He also reminded the secretary-general of the persistent attacks that often strike civilian areas, including 40 drone attacks overnight ... Powerful explosion causes fire near airport in Tashkent, Uzbekistan ... .
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Xi Jinping’s death wish
New Statesman 29 Sep 2023
History and geopolitics begin with the tectonic forces of geography, economics, military power, and so forth, that Paul Kennedy’s The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987) conveys in a sweeping, brilliant manner. His reflection, 35 years after the book’s publication, is in its own way equally magisterial ... [See also ... China is another mystery.
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Sudan: Fierce battles in Khartoum and international warnings of famine
Middle East Monitor 28 Sep 2023
Army forces bombed RSF sites in the Riyadh neighbourhood and Sports City, south of Khartoum ... In South Darfur state, ....
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North Korea amends constitution on nuclear policy, cites US 'provocations'
Hong Kong Standard 28 Sep 2023
North Korea has adopted a constitutional amendment to enshrine its policy on nuclear force, state media reported on Thursday, as the country's leader pledged to accelerate production of nuclear weapons to deter what he called U.S. provocations ... DPRK are the initials of the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ... .