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Russia-Ukraine crisis: UK sending weapons to defend Ukraine, says defence secretary
BBC News 17 Jan 2022
Britain is supplying Ukraine with short-range anti-tank missiles for self-defence after Russia amassed about 100,000 troops on its border, the defence secretary said. Ben Wallace told MPs a small team of British troops would also be sent to Ukraine to provide training ... Russia denies any invasion plans and accuses the West of aggression ... He said ... .
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Texas synagogue siege: Everything we know about the hostage-taker in Colleyville
The Independent 16 Jan 2022
How did a British man from Blackburn end up holding four people hostage in a synagogue in Texas? That is the question both UK and US authorities are now trying to answer after the FBI named Malik Faisal Akram as Saturday's hostage-taker ... Finally a hostage rescue team secured the prisoners, and Akram was killed, though it's not clear exactly how ... .
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2 Mouthwashes Disrupt the Coronavirus in Lab Tests
The Epoch Times 17 Jan 2022
Two types of mouthwash disrupt SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, preventing it from replicating in a human cell, a new study suggests.
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Fauci Invested in Chinese Companies With Ties to Beijing, According to Financial Disclosures
The Epoch Times 17 Jan 2022
Dr ... Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) obtained the records (pdf) and published them on Jan ... One particular fund was named the Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund.
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Cold case team shines new light on betrayal of Anne Frank
Stars and Stripes 17 Jan 2022
AMSTERDAM — A cold case team that combed through evidence for five years in a bid to unravel one of World War II's enduring mysteries has reached what it calls the "most likely scenario" of who betrayed Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank and her family ... Bayens was quick to add that, "we don't have 100% certainty." ... .
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Study confirms sixth mass extinction is currently underway, caused by humans
The Independent 17 Jan 2022photo: AP
MLK is revered today but the real King would make white people uncomfortable
The Observer 17 Jan 2022
Every year, on the third Monday in January, America hosts a Sadie Hawkins-style role-reversal where the entire country pretends to celebrate a man whose achievements and values they spent the previous 364 days ignoring, demonizing and trying to dismantle ... That’s right, it’s MLK Day! ... I am not condemning this all-American tradition of gaslighting ... .
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An Essential Workers Bill Of Rights Is Past Due - And Is The Only Way To Save America From Fascism
WorldNews.com 17 Jan 2022
With consumer prices rising substantially and inflation at a 40-year high, an Essential Workers' Bill of Rights patterned after the GI Bill of Rights (Serviceman’s Readjustment Act) is long overdue. It also may be the only thing to save the United States from a fascist takeover, like the one that occurred on January 6, 2001 ... Whereas the Jan.
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Swedish Security Service investigates drones at three nuclear plants
Reuters 17 Jan 2022
STOCKHOLM, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Sweden's Security Service has taken over an investigation regarding unauthorized drones at three Swedish nuclear power plants on Friday, it said in a statement on Monday ... L1N2TV06U ... Register ... Around 30% of Sweden's total power production comes from the three plants ... read more ... ....
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EXCLUSIVE - Mali reviewing defence agreement with France
France24 17 Jan 2022
Mali's interim government asked to review defence agreeement with France. FRANCE 24's Jihadism expert Wassim Nasr has more details as he spoke to the Malian Foreign Minister ... .
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Germany says Russia will pay price if it moves on Ukraine
Yahoo Daily News 17 Jan 2022
By Alexander Ratz and Pavel Polityuk. KYIV (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Monday that she hoped mounting tensions with Russia over Ukraine could be solved by diplomacy, but she warned that Moscow would suffer if it does attack the country ... "Diplomacy is the only way." ... But there are points of contention ... .
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Teen Stumbled Onto Flaw Letting Him Hijack Teslas, Control Some Functions
NDTV 18 Jan 2022photo: Air National Guard / Airman 1st Class Crystal Housman
Drone attack in Abu Dhabi: Two Indians among 3 killed
International Business Times 17 Jan 2022
In a major escalation of tension in West Asia, a drone attack that struck three oil tankers at Dhabi International Airport Abu Dhabi killed three people and wounded six. Two Indians and one Pakistani were among the fatalities, according to Abu Dhabi police. It did not name the injured, who authorities said had slight to moderate injuries ... Update ... Iran.
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Suez Canal Expansion Due to Finish in July 2023: SCA Chairman
The Epoch Times 17 Jan 2022
"The project will be completed in 24 months ... The southernmost 30 km of the canal, where the Ever Given became grounded, is set to be widened 40 meters eastward ....
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‘The equivalent of 1000 Hiroshima bombs’: World watched a tremendous explosion in Tonga
Sydney Morning Herald 17 Jan 2022
By Brian Schmidt and Richard Arculus January 17, 2022 — 5.30am . On Saturday evening, Tongans witnessed a catastrophic explosion of the volcanic vent that had grown a few metres above sea-level between the small islands of Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha’apai, some 50 kilometres north of their capital Nuku’alofa on the main island of Tonga, Tongatapu ... .