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Guinea’s leader defends coups in Africa and rebuffs the West, saying things must change
Times Union 21 Sep 2023
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The recent coups in Africa are attempts by militaries to save their countries from presidents' “broken promises," the head of Guinea’s junta said Thursday as he rebuffed the West for boxing in the continent of more than 1 billion people. Col ... experts ... “It is a demand for solutions to perennial problems.” .
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South Africa: Ninety schoolchildren given 'cannabis muffins'
BBC News 21 Sep 2023
Around ninety primary schoolchildren in South Africa were sent to hospital after eating muffins thought to be laced with cannabis.
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Venezuela sends 11,000 troops to control gang-run prison with pool and zoo
Al Jazeera 21 Sep 2023
Venezuela says it has seized control of a prison from the hands of a powerful gang with an international reach in a major operation involving 11,000 members of its security forces ... list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Former Venezuela spy chief pleads not guilty to US drug charges. list 2 of 3Venezuela using arbitrary detention as ‘tool of repression’. Amnesty ... .
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Syria's Assad visits China for first time since civil war
Deutsche Welle 21 Sep 2023
Syrian President Bashar Assad is due to meet with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. China has long provided diplomatic support to Assad's regime, and could play a role in reconstructing war-battered Syria ... .
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India suspends visa services in Canada and rift widens over killing of Canadian citizen
Moosejaw Today 21 Sep 2023
NEW DELHI (AP) — India's visa processing center in Canada suspended services Thursday as a rift widened between the countries after Canada's leader said India may have been involved in the killing of a Canadian citizen ... Canada also expelled an Indian diplomat, and India followed by expelling a Canadian diplomat on Tuesday ... It gave no further details.
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EU asks Poland for ‘clarifications’ on visa fraud allegations
CNN 21 Sep 2023
The European Commission has sent a letter to Poland asking for “clarifications,” amid reports that Polish officials have been involved in an alleged cash-for-visas scandal ... “These allegations are very concerning and give rise to questions regarding the compliance with EU law,” Hipper said in a Wednesday statement ... .
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Nuclear veterans take legal action against MoD over ‘illegally withheld’ medical records
ITV 21 Sep 2023
Some of the claimants said they have had cancer, blood disorders and lost children, ITV News' Lucy Watson reports. Military veterans who took part in nuclear weapons tests are to take legal action against the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in an attempt to gain access to medical records they claim have been illegally withheld ... Credit. ITV News ... He said ... .
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Niger’s ousted Bazoum appeals to West Africa bloc court to free him
Al Jazeera 21 Sep 2023
The coup-toppled president of Niger has appealed to a court of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to free him, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Mohamed Bazoum was overthrown by members of his presidential guard on July 26 and has been detained at home with his wife and child since ... “The EU position is clear and unchanged ... .
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Rupert Murdoch steps down, says 'companies in robust health, as am I'
India Today 21 Sep 2023
Rupert Murdoch has stepped down as the chairman of Fox Corp and News Corp, ending a more than seven-decade career during which he created a media empire ....
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Italian PM Giorgia Meloni urges UN to wage 'war without mercy' on migrant trafficking
Raw Story 21 Sep 2023
Italy's prime minister on Wednesday urged the United Nations to launch a "global war without mercy" against migrant smugglers, after a surge of arrivals on the island of Lampedusa ... "Can an organization like this which reaffirms in its founding document the faith in the dignity and worth of human beings turn a blind eye to this tragedy?" she asked ... .
photo: AP / Efrem Lukatsky, File
Poland to stop arming Ukraine over grain deal - Polish PM
RTE 21 Sep 2023
Poland has said it will no longer arm Ukraine and instead focus on its own defense, as the two allies clashed at a key moment in Kyiv's fightback against invasion by Russia. In a mounting row over grain exports from Ukraine, Poland summoned the Ukrainian ambassador to protest remarks at the UN by President Volodymyr Zelensky ... EU transit route ... .
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CNN: Ukraine Likely Behind Drone Strikes on Wagner-Backed Paramilitary in Sudan
Democracy Now 21 Sep 2023photo: AP / Sean Murphy
Man to be executed for 1996 slaying of University of Oklahoma student and Arkansas native
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 21 Sep 2023
Oklahoma is set to execute an inmate Thursday morning for the 1996 slaying of a University of Oklahoma dance student and Arkansas native, a case that went unsolved for years until DNA from the crime scene matched a man serving time for burglary. Anthony Sanchez, 44, is scheduled to receive a three-drug injection at 10 a.m ... Supreme Court ... .
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Despite Push for 'Common Prosperity,' China's Income Gap Widens
Voa News 21 Sep 2023
Beijing's latest annual income data from the National Bureau of Statistics tell a tale of two Chinas, revealing an income gap that is the widest it has been since data collection began in 1985. Two lives, briefly told, illustrate the divide ... He told VOA Mandarin he pays no rent and spends less than 100 yuan a day, or about $14, on food ... .