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Doctors Without Borders halts operations in Haiti’s capital, citing police threats

Doctors Without Borders halts operations in Haiti’s capital, citing police threats

November 20, 2024
A vital humanitarian organization said it will suspend activities in Haiti’s capital on Wednesday following a “series of threats” by local police, in a move that threatens to bring a further deterioration of conditions in the Caribbean nation that has struggled for years with gang warfare and political turmoil. Doctors Without Borders, also known as […]
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Brazil police arrest five over alleged plot to assassinate President Lula

Brazil police arrest five over alleged plot to assassinate President Lula

November 20, 2024
Brazilian police have arrested five people, including a former adviser to ex-President Jair Bolsonaro, over an alleged plot to assassinate President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2022, authorities said. The coup plot was conceived in late 2022, before Lula took office, according to Federal Police. In addition to killing the then-president-elect, the plot also […]
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Hong Kong to hear from jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai for the first time in four years at his trial

Hong Kong to hear from jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai for the first time in four years at his trial

November 20, 2024
Jimmy Lai, the pugnacious Hong Kong media tycoon whose now shuttered tabloid Apple Daily was a regular thorn in Beijing’s side, is expected to testify on Wednesday at his own national security trial in a high stakes court battle that could see him spend the rest of his life behind bars. The 77-year-old, known for […]
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‘We don’t want to leave anyone behind,’ says Google’s Alex Okosi on the company’s drive to cut data costs in Africa

‘We don’t want to leave anyone behind,’ says Google’s Alex Okosi on the company’s drive to cut data costs in Africa

November 20, 2024
In 2021, Google announced $1 billion of investment in Africa, aiming to enhance connectivity, drive innovation and support local entrepreneurs. Three years on, it claims this investment is working. According to a recent report commissioned by the tech giant, in 2023 its services – including Search, Maps, and YouTube – generated $16 billion in economic […]
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Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year 2024 is all about thinking positive

Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year 2024 is all about thinking positive

November 20, 2024
Cambridge Dictionary has put it out to the universe, naming “manifest” as its word of the year for 2024. Popularized by celebrities such as singer Dua Lipa, “manifest” refers to the practice of using “methods such as visualization and affirmation to help you imagine achieving something you want, in the belief that doing so will […]
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Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted, sparking warnings of possible ‘hybrid warfare’

Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted, sparking warnings of possible ‘hybrid warfare’

November 19, 2024
Two undersea internet cables in the Baltic Sea have been suddenly disrupted, according to local telecommunications companies, amid fresh warnings of possible Russian interference with global undersea infrastructure. Another cable linking Finland and Germany was also disrupted, according to Cinia, the state-controlled Finnish company that runs the link. The C-Lion cable – the only direct […]
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Nearly a hundred aid trucks looted in Gaza, as UN warns of ‘collapse of law and order’

Nearly a hundred aid trucks looted in Gaza, as UN warns of ‘collapse of law and order’

November 19, 2024
Nearly a hundred aid trucks were looted in southern Gaza on Saturday in what UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, has described as “one of the worst” incidents of its kind. Drivers were forced to unload trucks at gun point, aid workers were injured, and vehicles were damaged extensively, it said. UNRWA did not […]
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Joshua Wong shouts ‘I love Hong Kong’ as more than 40 leading democracy leaders handed lengthy prison terms in mass trial

Joshua Wong shouts ‘I love Hong Kong’ as more than 40 leading democracy leaders handed lengthy prison terms in mass trial

November 19, 2024
More than 40 of Hong Kong’s best known pro-democracy figures have been sentenced to prison terms of up to 10 years on subversion charges, in the biggest single blow to the city’s already shrinking political freedoms following Beijing’s sweeping crackdown on dissent. Among those handed sentences on Tuesday was Joshua Wong, a former student leader […]
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Car crashes into people outside primary school in central China: state media

Car crashes into people outside primary school in central China: state media

November 19, 2024
Multiple students were injured after a car crashed into people outside a primary school in central China on Tuesday morning, state news agency Xinhua reported. It’s not clear how many people were injured in the incident, which took place in Hunan province’s Changde city. In a brief report, state broadcaster CCTV said “specific casualties were […]
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‘My whole body was praying for my death’: LGBTQ Afghans say they face abuse in detention as Taliban crackdown intensifies

‘My whole body was praying for my death’: LGBTQ Afghans say they face abuse in detention as Taliban crackdown intensifies

November 19, 2024
Warning: This report contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence. It was the early hours of the morning when a guard entered Sohrab’s cell – a small, dark room with a barred window and a blanket on the floor – in Kabul’s sprawling Pul-e-Charkhi prison last August. The 19-year-old was escorted to another room in the […]
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Massive crowds march on New Zealand parliament protesting Māori bill. Here’s what to know

Massive crowds march on New Zealand parliament protesting Māori bill. Here’s what to know

November 19, 2024
Tens of thousands of people have marched on the New Zealand parliament in Wellington to protest against a bill that critics say strikes at the core of the country’s founding principles and dilutes the rights of Māori people. The Hīkoi mō te Tiriti march began nine days ago in New Zealand’s far north and crossed […]
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Putin updates Russia’s nuclear doctrine after Biden’s arms decision on Ukraine

Putin updates Russia’s nuclear doctrine after Biden’s arms decision on Ukraine

November 19, 2024
President Vladimir Putin has updated Russia’s nuclear doctrine, two days after his US counterpart Joe Biden granted Ukraine permission to strike targets deep inside Russia with US-made weapons. Under the updated doctrine issued Tuesday, Moscow will consider aggression from any non-nuclear state – but with the participation of a nuclear country – a joint attack […]
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European officials cry sabotage after two internet cables are cut in the Baltic Sea

European officials cry sabotage after two internet cables are cut in the Baltic Sea

November 19, 2024
European officials are looking toward Russia after two submarine internet cables in the Baltic Sea were suddenly disrupted in an apparent sabotage operation, just weeks after the United States warned that Moscow was likely to target critical undersea infrastructure. A cable between Lithuania and Sweden was cut on Sunday, according to Telia Lithuania, the telecommunications […]
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Ukraine fires US-made longer-range missiles into Russia for the first time

Ukraine fires US-made longer-range missiles into Russia for the first time

November 19, 2024
Ukraine has fired US-made ATACMS missiles into Russia’s Bryansk region, Russia’s Defense Ministry said, in a major escalation on the 1,000th day of war. The attack comes just two days after the Biden administration gave Kyiv the green light to use the longer-range American weapons against targets inside Russia. Kyiv did not immediately respond to […]
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Son of Norway’s Crown Princess arrested on suspicion of rape

Son of Norway’s Crown Princess arrested on suspicion of rape

November 19, 2024
The 27-year-old son of Norway’s Crown Princess has been arrested on suspicion of rape, Norwegian police said Tuesday. Marius Borg Høiby was born before his mother Mette-Marit married Crown Prince Haakon and became a princess in 2001. He was arrested for violating the criminal code which concerns “sexual intercourse with someone who is unconscious or […]
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