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Colombia gangs: 'Surrender or we'll hunt you down' warns minister
BBC News 08 Dec 2021
The capture in October of drug lord Dairo Antonio Úsuga was described by the Colombian government as "the most important blow to drug trafficking since the fall of Pablo Escobar" ... But in an interview with the BBC, Colombian Minster of Defence Diego Molano insisted that Otoniel's arrest spelled "the end of the Gulf Clan" ... .
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Biden-Putin talks yield no breakthrough in Ukraine tensions
The Independent 08 Dec 2021
President Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin were still far apart after two hours of talks on the escalating crisis caused by Russia’s massing of tens of thousands of troops near its border with Ukraine. Biden delivered a simple message during Tuesday’s video call with Putin ... National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said ... .
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US senator ‘won’t rule out’ nuclear strike against Russia
Russia Today 08 Dec 2021
Republican Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker gave a disturbing interview with Fox News where he floated the possibility of a ground deployment and nuclear strike against Russia should the US engage in a conflict over Ukraine. “I would not rule out military action ... On Fox News, Sen ... This is damn dangerous.
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Myanmar democracy in new era as Suu Kyi sidelined by army
The Times of India 08 Dec 2021
BANGKOK. In sentencing Myanmar's iconic democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to prison, the country's generals have effectively exiled her from electoral politics. But that doesn't mean the Southeast Asian nation is back to square one in its stop-start efforts to move toward democracy ... A de facto coup on Feb ... Start a Conversation. .
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Report: Apple CEO Tim Cook engineered a secret $275 billion deal with China - Ars Technica
WorldNews.com 08 Dec 2021
SAMUEL AXON - 12/7/2021, 11.03 PM. Today, The Information published a lengthy report detailing Apple CEO Tim Cook's efforts to establish strong relationships between Apple and Chinese government officials and agencies. Citing both interviews and direct access to internal Apple documents.. read full story. .
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Germany on new path as Scholz replaces Merkel as chancellor
Fresno Bee 08 Dec 2021
Olaf Scholz is set to take office Wednesday as Germany’s ninth post-World War II chancellor, succeeding Angela Merkel after her heralded 16-year tenure. Scholz's government takes office with high hopes ... .
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Trump’s White House chief risks criminal charge for defying Capitol riot probe
Japan Times 08 Dec 2021
Mark Meadows' lawyer said his client changed his mind about assisting the committee after it "issued wide ranging subpoenas for information from a third party ... .
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Top Doctor Warns COVID Jabs Secretly Intended To Reduce World’s Population
Principia Scientific 06 Dec 2021
The leading doctor credited with improving early treatment of COVID-19 said in a conference that the goal of vaccine transmission campaigns is to “control and kill off a large proportion of our population without anyone suspecting that we were poisoned.” ... Shankara Chetty (pictured) ... We need to understand what the aim is ... Why is it there?” ... Head Office.
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Australia joins Beijing Winter Olympics diplomatic boycott over China’s human rights abuses
The Guardian 08 Dec 2021
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Bitcoin: the future of money or a giant Ponzi scheme?
Channel 4 08 Dec 2021
https.//traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thefourcast/211125_CRYPTO_EBRAHIMI_FINAL-16LUFS.mp3. To its supporters, Bitcoin is the biggest revelation in finance in a thousand years. To its critics, it’s a giant Ponzi scheme ... Sources ... .
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Saudi Arabia says France arrested wrong man over Khashoggi murder
Al Jazeera 08 Dec 2021
French police have arrested a Saudi national suspected of involvement in the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as Saudi officials said they believed it was a case of mistaken identity ... The Saudi embassy in Paris issued a statement saying the man arrested “has nothing to do with the case in question” and demanded his immediate release ... .
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Jamal Khashoggi: France arrests one of suspected killers
The Independent 07 Dec 2021
An alleged member of the Saudi hit team dispatched to murder journalist Jamal Khashoggi has been arrested at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle International airport as he was about to board a flight to Riyadh ... .
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The ‘gals’ behind Samoa’s first woman PM
BBC News 08 Dec 2021
There are fewer women in politics in the Pacific Islands than in any other part of the world, according to UN Women. But this year Samoa elected a woman as its head of government - only the second Pacific Island nation to do so - thanks in part to a network of women friends who supported her every step of the way ... Her friends raise their glasses ... .
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UN refugee chief warns of world’s inability to restore peace
Indian Express 08 Dec 2021
The growing inability of the international community to restore peace in countries like Yemen, Libya and Ethiopia is forcing humanitarian and refugee organizations to work increasingly during conflicts which they can’t solve despite the expectations of many people caught up in these crises, the U.N. refugee chief warned Tuesday ... The U.N ... Tags ... .
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Elon Musk thinks you should die
Business Insider 07 Dec 2021
Billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk on August 13, 2021 at a press event on the grounds of the Tesla Gigafactory near Berlin, Germany. Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images Billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk believes death is critical to human progress ... "If you live forever, we might become a very ossified society where new ideas cannot succeed.".