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China’s nuke carrier coup de grace in Taiwan Strait
Asiatimes 10 Jan 2022
China is on track to have at least four aircraft carriers by the mid-2020s, with its fourth one likely to be nuclear-powered. Work on China’s fourth carrier began in 2021, with China’s Central Military Commission studying a proposal by China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) to make it nuclear fuelled ... Photo. Facebook ... ....
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Swedish PM under fire for illegal immigrant cleaner
BBC News 10 Jan 2022
Sweden's prime minister has come under fire after a cleaner was detained for working illegally at her home. The police arrived at Magdalena Andersson's house after the burglar alarm was accidentally set off at the property in Nacka, near Stockholm ... The incident happened on 21 December, but was only reported in Swedish media on Saturday ... .
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Bronx fire: Everything we know about the deadly blaze in New York that killed 19, including 9 children
The Independent 10 Jan 2022photo: AP / Steven Senne, File
American Airlines reply over pilot’s ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ sticker draws backlash
The Independent 10 Jan 2022photo: AP / Salvatore Cavalli
Tourist marvel defaced by vandals
Russia Today 10 Jan 2022
Sicily’s iconic Scala dei Turchi cliffs have been plastered with red dye. An investigation has been launched by the Italian police after a popular Sicilian tourist site – the white cliffs of Scala dei Turchi – has been defaced by unknown vandals who covered it with red dye ... The incident provoked a wave of outrage from both politicians and locals ... .
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Ukraine crisis: Why Russia-US talks may prove crucial
BBC News 10 Jan 2022
Senior diplomats from the US and Russia are meeting in the Swiss city of Geneva for the first of a series of crunch talks aimed at defusing tension over Ukraine. The stakes for these talks on Monday are high. But both sides hold wildly different expectations. The US and other Western powers want to dissuade Russia from invading Ukraine ... A high price ... .
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‘Auction’ of India’s Muslim women shows tech weaponised for abuse
Al Jazeera 10 Jan 2022
Six months ago, pilot Hana Khan saw her picture on an app that appeared to be “auctioning” dozens of Muslim women in India. The app was quickly taken down, no one was charged, and the issue shelved – until a similar app popped up on New Year’s Day ... Amid growing outrage, the app was taken down, and four suspects were arrested last week ... .
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Australia agrees on new weapons deal
Russia Today 10 Jan 2022
Australia commits to purchasing tanks & other armored vehicles from US suppliers. Australia has agreed on a AU$3.5bn (US$2.5bn) deal with the US to upgrade its army’s armored vehicle fleet. The news comes months after the country signed a security pact with the US and UK amid heightened tensions with China ... .
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A data ‘black hole’: Europol ordered to delete vast store of personal data
The Guardian 10 Jan 2022
The EU’s police agency, Europol, will be forced to delete much of a vast store of personal data that it has been found to have amassed unlawfully by the bloc’s data protection watchdog ... The EU home affairs commissioner, Ylva Johansson appeared to defend Europol ... .
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Discovery of UK’s largest sea dragon among ‘greatest’ palaeontological finds
AOL 10 Jan 2022photo: AP / Dave Thompson
Football transfer rumours: Cristiano Ronaldo to leave Manchester United?
The Observer 10 Jan 2022
Like Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption, the Rumour Mill continues in the early stages of its crawl to freedom, through 31 days worth of transfer-related foulness most people can’t even begin to imagine. And as unlikely a prospect as it seems, we’re also hoping to come out clean on the other side ... Read more ... Reuse this content. .
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Explosion kills 9 children in eastern Afghanistan: Taliban
Dawn 10 Jan 2022
An explosion in eastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan on Monday killed nine children and wounded four, according to the office of a Taliban-appointed governor ... No other details were immediately available ... .
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Climate crisis: last seven years the hottest on record, 2021 data shows
The Guardian 10 Jan 2022photo: AP / Lynne Sladky, File
Lithuania pays Guantánamo ‘forever prisoner’ Abu Zubaydah €100,000 over CIA torture
The Observer 10 Jan 2022
Lithuania has paid more than $110,000 to Abu Zubaydah, the Guantánamo detainee known as the “forever prisoner”, in compensation for having allowed the CIA to hold him at a secret site outside Vilnius where he was subjected to forms of torture. ‘It’s a huge political albatross’. Guantánamo Bay, 20 years on. Read more ... Photograph. AP ... Read more ... .
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