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UK drops Covid passports, mask mandates, work restrictions - Free West Media
WorldNews.com 20 Jan 2022
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Wednesday that health restrictions related to the Covid pandemic, including passes, mask mandates, and work-from-home guidance will be dropped. London The Epoch Times reported that Johnson also suggested that self-isolation rules may also be ended at the end of March as the “pandemic becomes endemic” ... .
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Libya still the most popular starting point for illegal migration to Europe
The National 19 Jan 2022
Libya was the most popular departure point for illegal crossings into southern Europe last year, the European Border and Guard Agency said. One-third of about 200,000 people who were stopped last year by coastal and border guards in European countries had arrived by crossing the Central Mediterranean ... READ MORE ... ....
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Madeleine McCann investigators find ‘shocking’ new evidence about suspect
The Independent 19 Jan 2022
A German TV channel has discovered “shocking” new evidence against a man suspected of kidnapping Madeleine McCann, reports suggest ... Juliane Ebling, the channel’s editor, said ... .
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17 killed, 59 injured by explosion in western Ghana: Govt
The Times of India 21 Jan 2022
ACCRA. At least 17 people were killed and 59 injured Thursday in a devastating explosion in a western Ghana town after a truck carrying explosives collided with a motorcycle, the government said ... Out of 59 people injured, 42 are receiving treatment in hospitals or health centres and "some are in critical condition", Nkrumah added ... .
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Mistakes, constraints mark Biden's first year, analysts say
China Daily 21 Jan 2022
Analysts in the United States said on Wednesday that President Joe Biden should have done things differently in his first year in office, and that, despite constraints, most of his political "wounds" were of his own doing. During a Brookings Institution webinar with the theme "Biden's first year ... .
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Ex Guantánamo detainee plans legal action to restore British passport
The Guardian 19 Jan 2022
A former Guantánamo detainee is planning legal action against Priti Patel to try to restore his British passport, which was stripped from him eight years ago after two trips to Syria.
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Erdoğan’s indirect response to Greek Rafale’s: We make our own planes and big countries demand them
Greek City Times 20 Jan 2022
In an indirect manner, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan responded yesterday to Greece acquiring the first six of 24 French-made Rafale fighter jets. The Turkish president also called on Turkish citizens and companies to convert their foreign currency savings into Turkish liras as Ankara seeks to boost demand for the local currency ... READ MORE ... 0.
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Britain warns Xi Jinping and Putin: West will stand up to 'dictatorship'
Hong Kong Standard 21 Jan 2022
Britain on Friday warned Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping that its allies would stand together to fight for democracy against dictatorships that it said were more emboldened than at any time since the Cold War. ... The Standard Channel. IOS Android. IOS Android. More>> ... (Reuters). .
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Tearful Adele pulls plug on Las Vegas show
Manila Bulletin 21 Jan 2022
Adele (AFP). LOS ANGELES (AFP) – A tearful Adele postponed her Las Vegas residency Thursday, a day before it was due to begin. The Grammy Award-winning superstar said her sold-out show was not ready, blaming “delivery delays and Covid.”. “I’m so sorry, but my show ain’t ready,” she said in a video posted to Instagram ... .
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Taliban says reopening schools for girls their responsibility, UN offers cash aid to Afghanistan
DNA India 21 Jan 2022
The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has said that reopening schools for girls across the country was their responsibility and not due to world pressure ... Muneer said that getting an education is the right of girls and the Taliban government has the responsibility to provide it ... He however, did not mention a date of the reopening ... .
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US charges four Belarus officials with aircraft piracy over flight diversion
BBC News 21 Jan 2022
The US has charged four Belarusian officials with aircraft piracy over the diversion of a passenger plane to Minsk last May. Prosecutors allege the officials used a false bomb threat to divert a Ryanair flight to the Belarus capital, where opposition journalist Roman Protasevich and his partner were detained ... .
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British doctor visiting US killed by stray bullet while lying in bed - The Independent
WorldNews.com 21 Jan 2022
A 31-year-old doctor from Surrey, England who was visiting Georgia was fatally shot while lying in bed in the middle of the night. Dr Matthew Wilson died from a gunshot wound to the head after a bullet was fired into his apartment from a different building on Sunday, police in Brookhaven said...read full story. .
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Why did Pope Benedict XVI resign?
The Independent 20 Jan 2022
A German law firm has accused the former Pope Benedict XVI of failing to act in four historic child abuse cases that he was allegedly notified of during his tenure as archbishop of Munich and Freising ... .
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Jury in federal trial in Floyd killing appears mostly white
Wtop 21 Jan 2022
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A jury of 18 people who appeared mostly white was picked Thursday for the federal trial of three Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd’s killing, a case that the judge told potential jurors has “absolutely nothing” to do with race ... The court declined to provide demographic information ... ___ ... ___ ... Source .
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'Minor incursion' by Russia could complicate West's response
The Economic Times 21 Jan 2022
Among the possibilities for limited Russian military action ... .