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Peru declares Mexico envoy ‘persona non grata’, asks him to leave
Al Jazeera 21 Dec 2022
Peru has declared Mexico’s ambassador to Lima a “persona non grata” and ordered him to leave the country in 72 hours, Peru’s foreign minister has announced ... Castillo is facing rebellion charges from behind bars after attempting what critics have labelled a coup on December 7 ... ‘Undemocratic harassment’ ... .
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Trump tax audits required by law were delayed, panel says
West Hawaii Today 21 Dec 2022
The Pulitzer Prize-winning 2018 articles showed how Trump received a modern equivalent of at least $413 million from his father’s real estate holdings, with much of that money coming from what the Times called “tax dodges” in the 1990s ... “We’re going to follow the facts and continue to do our job,” Bragg said ... .
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Britain is being hit by a wave of strikes. Why have things got so bad?
CNN 21 Dec 2022
Another day, another round of strikes in Britain ... Conditions do not always improve while a patient arrives in hospital, where waiting times are at record levels ... What do the strikes mean for the government? The government of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says it cannot afford the pay demands being made by the public sector unions ... .
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping meets with Russia’s Medvedev in Beijing
Egypt Independent 21 Dec 2022
Chinese leader Xi Jinping met with former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday in Beijing, where they “discussed international issues, including of course the conflict in Ukraine,” Russian state-run news agency TASS reported ... Some context ... ....
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Taiwan’s hidden missiles can hit Beijing, Shanghai - Asiatimes
WorldNews.com 20 Dec 2022
Taiwan has revealed it has long-range missiles capable of striking major Chinese cities, weapons that could change the military balance in the Taiwan Strait and potentially deter a future Chinese invasion. South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported this week that Kung Chia-cheng, a retired rear admiral and former...read full story.
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Football, gas and bribery allegations: How Qatar-EU relations deteriorated
CNN 21 Dec 2022photo: AP / Ebrahim Noroozi, File
Timeline: Taliban crackdown on Afghan women’s education, rights
Al Jazeera 21 Dec 2022
The Taliban has backtracked on their promise to guarantee the rights of girls to be educated and given other freedoms, returning to their previous policies when they were last in power ... Here is a timeline of its clampdown. August 2021. The Taliban returns ... September 2021. Gender-segregated classrooms ... March 2022. Girls barred from school ... May 2022 ... .
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Kremlin says Moscow has no positive expectations from Zelenskyy's trip to Washington
Anadolu Agency 21 Dec 2022
"I don't think so." ... Asked why the Kremlin did not specify the location of Russia's joint staff of military branches involved in what Moscow calls "a special military operation" in a statement about President Vladimir Putin's visit to the area, Peskov answered it is "classified information." ... 22. .
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France re-sets its relationship with Vanuatu
RNZ 21 Dec 2022
France is working to establish stronger diplomatic bonds with Vanuatu as part of its Indo-Pacific strategy. France's new Ambassador to Vanuatu, Jean-Baptiste Jeang�ne Vilmer, said Vanuatu is at the heart of this strategy because of its history ... ....
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Zelenskiy’s US visit to counter emerging opposition to support for Ukraine
The Guardian 21 Dec 2022photo: AP / Iranian Army
Twitter secretly boosted US psyops in Middle East, report says
Al Jazeera 21 Dec 2022
Twitter worked with the Pentagon to amplify propaganda about the US military’s activities in the Middle East, allowing fake accounts to push pro-US narratives despite pledging to shut down covert state-run influence campaigns, according to an investigation based on Twitter’s internal files ... 1. TWITTER FILES PART 8 ... military’s influence operations ... .
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'Reconquest' of Crimea has started - Zelensky
Sott 20 Dec 2022
Ukrainians are now psychologically ready to retake the Crimean Peninsula from Russia by force, President Vladimir Zelensky told French broadcaster TF1 in an interview on Sunday ... "The operation itself has not started yet.
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Magnitude 6.4 quake shakes northern California, leaves 2 dead, thousands without power
The Jerusalem Post 21 Dec 2022
A powerful magnitude 6.4 earthquake jolted the extreme northern coast of California before dawn on Tuesday, damaging homes, roads and water systems and leaving tens of thousands of people without electricity ... The tremor, which struck at 2.30 a.m ... (credit. REUTERS/FRED GREAVES) ... "There was no seeing what was going on ... .
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Putin tank commander deliberately blows up RUSSIAN checkpoint in Ukraine following argument between units
The Daily Mail 20 Dec 2022
One of Vladimir Putin's tank commanders deliberately blew up a Russian checkpoint in Ukraine following an argument between units in the latest example of in-fighting that has plagued the President's war ... .
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Kremlin warning: More US arms to Ukraine will aggravate war
The Nashville Ledger 21 Dec 2022
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Kremlin warned Wednesday that increasing the supply of U.S ... "Weapon supplies (by the U.S.) continue, the assortment of supplied weapons is expanding ... President Joe Biden ... Peskov wouldn't comment on the reason for postponing the address until next year, saying only that it has to do with Putin's "work schedule." ... leaders ... ___.