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China, Russia blast superweapon warnings at US
Asiatimes 23 Apr 2022
This week, China and Russia conducted separate missile tests in what analysts saw a thinly-veiled warning to the US and its allies. For its part, China tested its YJ-21 hypersonic missile from a Type 055 Renhai cruiser. Little is known about the YJ-21 and there was no official notice of the test launch ... And it may have a smaller diameter.” ... Image ... ....
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Thousands take to the streets of Barcelona to celebrate Sant Jordi
Catalan News 23 Apr 2022photo: kremlin.ru
Inside The Bizarre Conspiracy Theory That Halted Putin’s Bombing Plans
The Daily Beast 23 Apr 2022
Brave defenders of Ukraine’s Mariupol remaining in the Azovstal steel plant captured the world’s attention, as they refused to surrender to Russia’s invading troops. Meanwhile, Kremlin-controlled state media reveals that Russia’s focus isn’t transfixed on Ukraine, with the entire world in Putin’s sights ... Mariupol City Council via Reuters ... .
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Elon Musk calls out Bill Gates
Russia Today 24 Apr 2022
World’s richest man challenges fellow billionaire’s climate stance and compares him to ‘pregnant man’ emoji ... So apparently Bill Gates hit up @elonmusk to discuss “philanthropy on climate change” but Elon asked if he still had a half billion dollar short position on $TSLA. Bill said he hasn’t closed it out, so Elon told him to get lost ... READ MORE ... .
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More than 100 killed at Nigerian illegal oil refinery blast
The Observer 24 Apr 2022
More than 100 people were killed overnight in an explosion at an illegal oil refining depot on the border of Nigeria’s Rivers and Imo states, a local government official and an environmental group said on Saturday ... Crude oil is tapped from a web of pipelines owned by major oil companies and refined into products in makeshift tanks ... .
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Three officers killed in central Nigeria as gunmen storm police station
The Observer 24 Apr 2022
Three policemen have been killed in central Nigeria’s Kogi state after gunmen stormed a police station in an attack claimed by Islamic State. State police spokesperson William Ovye Aya said a fierce gun battle took place after “hoodlums” entered the station in Adavi town on Saturday ... “Soldiers of the caliphate attacked a police station,” it said ... .
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Russia’s standing in G20 not threatened by Ukraine invasion
Dawn 23 Apr 2022
The last time Russia invaded Ukraine, in 2014, outraged world leaders booted Russia out of the Group of Eight industrialised nations, which quickly rebranded itself as the Group of Seven (G7). Eight years later, the G7 is still holding at seven — a collection of countries that meet to talk through big issues like trade, economics and security ... .
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Ukraine invasion is only the beginning, warns Ukraine president Zelenskiy
The Irish Times 23 Apr 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned that Russia’s invasion of his country was just the beginning and that Moscow has designs on capturing other countries, after a Russian general said it wants full control over southern Ukraine. “All the nations that, like us, believe in the victory of life over death must fight with us ... Allies ... War Crimes.
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Ukrainian counter-attacks ‘slowing Russian offensive in east’
Belfast Telegraph 23 Apr 2022
Fierce Ukrainian counter-attacks have slowed Russian troops’ offensive in the eastern Donbas region as they attempt to seize Ukraine’s industrial heartland, officials have said ... This includes an attempt to wipe out the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the besieged port city of Mariupol ... AP/PA Images. / ... “Units of Russian occupiers are regrouping.
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US warns Solomon Islands against China military base as Australian MPs trade blame
The Guardian 23 Apr 2022
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![Secretary-General Kofi Annan (second from right) is pictured at State House in Nairobi, Kenya, with President Mwai Kibaki (right), after the Kenyan leader awarded the "Chief of The Order of the Golden Heart of Kenya", the county´s highest](http://web.archive.org./web/20220424041344im_/https://ecdn8.wn.com/ph/img/ee/d8/a7b4d8125efd571557847380400b-medium.jpg "Secretary-General Kofi Annan (second from right) is pictured at State House in Nairobi, Kenya, with President Mwai Kibaki (right), after the Kenyan leader awarded the "Chief of The Order of the Golden Heart of Kenya", the county´s highest")
Former Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki dies at 90
Egypt Independent 23 Apr 2022
(CNN) – Mwai Kibaki, one of the biggest names in Kenyan politics and the nation’s third president, has died, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced. He was 90. His political career spanned decades, including serving as vice president to Daniel arap Moi, the man he replaced as president of the East African nation in 2002 ... ....
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Forget the presidency, I can lead France as its PM, insists Mélenchon
The Guardian 23 Apr 2022photo: AP / Michael Peterson/Space Launch Delta 30 Public Affairs/USNORTHCOM
Return of Private Ax-1 Astronaut Crew to Earth Delayed - SpaceX
Urdu Point 24 Apr 2022
WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 24th April, 2022) The return of the world's first all-private crew to the International Space Station (ISS) back to Earth on board the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft is getting delayed again, SpaceX informs. "SpaceX, Axiom Space, and NASA are targeting no earlier than Sunday, April 24 at 8.50 p.m ... ....
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Why scientists have finally linked colonialism, climate change
Asiatimes 23 Apr 2022
The International Panel on Climate Change’s sixth and latest report on the impact of global warming on our planet, published this month, reiterates many of its predecessors’ warnings. chiefly that climate change threatens global disaster if we do not act to avert it. Yet it contains one key difference ... But colonialism is a deeply complex word ... ....
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Highly contagious marine epidemic rips through Caribbean’s coral reefs
The Observer 24 Apr 2022
Krista Sherman understands ocean conservation work takes a good deal of patience. But the Bahamian-born marine scientist had never encountered a foe like stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD), and after efforts to monitor and treat the highly contagious outbreak in the Bahamas’ corals stalled, her patience was running thin ... Photograph ... From left ... .