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Russia prepares unpleasant surprise for F-35 in Black Sea region
Pravda RU 15 Dec 2021
As soon as it became known that the United States was getting ready to use F-35 fighters over the Black Sea, it was reported that Russia had prepared a very unpleasant surprise for the fifth-generation fighter aircraft ... .
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Germany expels Russian diplomats over state-ordered killing
Stars and Stripes 15 Dec 2021
BERLIN — Germany's foreign minister said Wednesday that her country is expelling two Russian diplomats after a court concluded that Moscow was behind the killing of a Chechen man in Berlin two years ago ... 23, 2019 ... "It is clear that acts such as the...murder weigh heavily on this relationship," she said ... The case was dropped in 2015 ... ___.
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Brother of North Korea's founder dies: state media
Korea Times 15 Dec 2021
This 2015 file photo captured from North Korea's state TV shows Kim Yong-ju, a brother of the North's founder Kim Il-sung. Pyongyang's state media confirmed his death on Dec. 15. Yonhap ... (Yonhap). .
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'Assange may not survive prosecution'
The Manila Times 15 Dec 2021
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The Threat of a China-Centric New World Order
The American Spectator 15 Dec 2021
Writing in the January/February 2022 issue of Foreign Affairs, the Hoover Institution’s Elizabeth Economy explores Chinese President Xi Jinping’s efforts to shape the international order by “fundamentally transforming the global system” to reflect Beijing’s interests and values ... Economy notes in her article that the Sino-U.S ... The U.S ... (READ MORE ... .
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Mothers selling children to feed family - UN food chief
RTE 15 Dec 2021
The head of the World Food Programme has said the UN agency is facing a perfect storm where conflict, climate and Covid are coming together to create unprecedented suffering in poorer and war-torn countries ... The UN is warning that nearly 23m people in Afghanistan – about 55% of the population – are facing extreme levels of hunger ... .
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Exclusive: Ukraine sees no sign of Russia withdrawing troops from border
Metro USA 15 Dec 2021
KYIV (Reuters) – Russia has made no move to withdraw troops it has amassed at the border with Ukraine but there is no sign that a Russian invasion is imminent, a senior Ukrainian security official said on Wednesday ... 7 in which U.S. President Joe Biden warned Russian President Vladimir Putin not to invade Ukraine ... .
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Derek Chauvin changes plea to guilty in George Floyd civil rights case
The Villager 15 Dec 2021
White former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pleaded guilty on Wednesday in a federal court in Minnesota to charges he violated George Floyd's civil rights during the Black man's murder, reversing his not-guilty plea in September. Chauvin, 45, entered his guilty plea in the U.S. District Court ... .
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Afghanistan: Government collapse marked by ‘repeated war crimes and relentless bloodshed’ – new report
Amnesty 15 Dec 2021
The Taliban, United States military, and Afghan security forces were all responsible for attacks that resulted in extensive civilian suffering before the country’s government collapsed earlier this year, Amnesty International said in a new report today. The report, No Escape ... Taliban atrocities ... One of the men captured by the Taliban said ... He said ... .
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10,000-Year-Old Mesolithic Burial Showed Special Reverence For Infant Girl
Ancient Origins 15 Dec 2021
Archaeologists and paleoanthropologists exploring a cave in Italy excavated parts of a skeleton that belonged to an infant girl who died approximately 10,000 years ago, in the early Mesolithic period shortly after the end of the last Ice Age ... After the careful excavation of the skeletal remains and associated artifacts they were studied in detail ... .
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Soaring tensions between Moscow, West: Putin wants urgent talks with US, NATO over security guarantees
The News International 15 Dec 2021
MOSCOW. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that he wants "immediate" talks with the United States and NATO over security guarantees, as tensions soar between Moscow and the West over Ukraine ... Russia’s demands, it said, included stopping NATO from expanding east and the deployment of weapons in neighbouring states, including Ukraine ... .
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Billie Eilish says watching porn gave her nightmares and ‘destroyed my brain’
The Guardian 15 Dec 2021
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‘It’s still unbelievable’: Family of Gabby Petito recall torment of searching for daughter
The Independent 15 Dec 2021
A new documentary that features members of Gabby Petito’s family being interviewed is set to be released this week – three months after her disappearance. A trailer for the film, titled, The Murder of Gabby Petito. Truth, Lies and Social Media is already available to watch, ahead of its full release on streaming platform Peacock this Friday ... .
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Lithuanian diplomats leave China amid ongoing row over Taiwan ties
South China Morning Post 15 Dec 2021photo: Creative Commons / 總統府
