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Mossad assassinated Iran’s top nuclear scientist with 'killer robot': NYT
Press TV 19 Sep 2021
Israel’s spying agency, Mossad, used a remote-controlled “killer robot” to assassinate Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh last year, a report says ... The whole device weighed about a ton, as the report said, and was smuggled into Iran in small parts ahead of the operation and then reassembled near the location of the killing in Absard ... .
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‘Persuasion first, violence later’: the Taliban’s new vice and virtue approach
The Observer 19 Sep 2021
Mawlawi Mohammad Shebani is officially in charge of policing morals throughout Kandahar, the Taliban heartland of southern Afghanistan ... He described a network fully integrated into the Taliban police force, with ties to mosques and madrassas, and formal rules of operation, which have been made public ... Photograph. Emma Graham-Harrison/the Observer ... .
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Why Greece’s expensive new migrant camps are outraging NGOs
The Observer 19 Sep 2021
It has eight restaurants, seven basketball courts, three playgrounds, a football pitch, special rooms for vulnerable people, and is purportedly eco-friendly ... Its message is clear. if Europe-bound asylum seekers reach the country, they are going to be strictly controlled ... But critics have likened the reception centres to prisons ... It is a disgrace.” ... .
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Australia could lease submarines from UK or US but nuclear weapons remain off the table
The Observer 19 Sep 2021
The short-term leasing of nuclear-powered submarines from the UK or the US is being considered by the Morrison government but the Coalition insists nuclear weapons won’t be based in Australia ... “The short answer is yes,” Dutton said when asked on Sky News about leasing vessels ... Sign up to receive the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning ... .
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Israel carries out mass arrests of Palestinians after jailbreak
Al Jazeera 19 Sep 2021
Ramallah, Occupied West Bank – Israeli security forces have detained dozens of Palestinians in recent days in a campaign of mass arrests in response to an embarrassing high-security prison escape earlier this month ... “This does not include the Palestinians arrested within Israel.” ... Arresting children ... .
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US to step up deportation flights for migrants stranded at Texas bridge
Manila Bulletin 19 Sep 2021
Del Rio, United States -The United States said Saturday it would ramp up deportation flights for thousands of migrants who flooded into the Texas border city of Del Rio, as authorities scramble to alleviate a burgeoning crisis for President Joe Biden’s administration ... Texas Republicans seized on the crisis to lash out at Biden ... .
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The Violence of Colonialism and the Exploitation of Africa. The Myth of Independence
GlobalResearch 19 Sep 2021
“When missionaries came to Africa, we had the land, they had the bible. We closed our eyes to pray. When we opened them, we had the bible and they had the land.” (Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu(1)) ... The Richest Continent On Earth . The importance of Africa’s natural resources was recognised hundreds of years ago ... Colonial Exploitation .
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Police outnumber protesters at right-wing Capitol rally
BBC News 19 Sep 2021
A few hundred protesters gathered around the US Capitol on Saturday, for a rally in support of the pro-Trump rioters who ransacked the building on 6 January. But the group were easily outnumbered by the police and journalists present. Ahead of the event, police said they had detected "threats of violence" and security was tightened in Washington ... .
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‘I believe in science’: Sarah Palin says she won’t get Covid jab because she’s already protected against virus
The Independent 18 Sep 2021
Former governor of Alaska and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has revealed that she has not been vaccinated against Covid-19 because she believes “in science” ... .
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Russia election: Opposition complaints on final day of voting
BBC News 19 Sep 2021
Russian opposition activists have stepped up complaints they are being silenced on digital platforms, on the final day of parliamentary elections. There have also been numerous reports of irregularities, including ballot stuffing and forced voting ... Russia's marathon election is nearing the end ... The authorities dismiss accusations of widespread fraud ... .
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PM: cost of ignoring climate crisis unimaginable
Ekathimerini 19 Sep 2021
Mediterranean nations must lead the way in addressing climate change, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said, warning that the cost of doing nothing was unimaginable, with mankind possibly struggling to survive beyond the turn of the next century ... “I no longer want to talk about climate change ... A U.N ... The U.N ... “We have to be very, very, very clear.
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House Democrats are scared to tax billionaires – that’s a costly mistake
The Guardian 19 Sep 2021photo: Public Domain
The kaiser and the paperweight: how Cecil Rhodes helped inspire the first world war
The Observer 19 Sep 2021
It was discovered, dusty and damaged, on a warehouse shelf ... But Cornelis Van der Bas, conservator at the Huis Doorn museum, a mansion where Wilhelm reluctantly spent the last two decades of his life in exile, had recognised the trinket in the archive, inscribed “Von Cecil Rhodes Grab, December 1905” (From Cecil Rhodes’ grave), as something more ... .
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SpaceX's trailblazing tourist trip to orbit ends with splashdown in the Atlantic
Hindustan Times 19 Sep 2021
Four space tourists safely ended their trailblazing trip to orbit Saturday with a splashdown in the Atlantic off the Florida coast. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the ocean just before sunset, not far from where their chartered flight began three days earlier ... Within a few minutes, a pair of SpaceX boats pulled up alongside the bobbing capsule.
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Hong Kong elite selects powerful new 'patriots only' committee
Manila Standard Today 19 Sep 2021
Hong Kong's political elite began selecting a powerful committee on Sunday which will choose the city's next leader and nearly half the legislature under a new "patriots only" system imposed by Beijing ... The following year, it will pick Hong Kong's next Beijing-approved leader ... "It's more than a managed democracy ... .
