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Biden-Putin talks yield no breakthrough in Ukraine tensions
The Independent 08 Dec 2021
President Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin were still far apart after two hours of talks on the escalating crisis caused by Russia’s massing of tens of thousands of troops near its border with Ukraine. Biden delivered a simple message during Tuesday’s video call with Putin ... National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said ... .
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Saudi Arabia says France arrested wrong man over Khashoggi murder
Al Jazeera 08 Dec 2021
The man was detained by border police on the basis of an arrest warrant issued by Turkey as he was about to board a flight to Riyadh from Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport, judicial and airport sources told the AFP news agency, asking not to be named ... A security source in Saudi ...
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Colombia gangs: 'Surrender or we'll hunt you down' warns minister
BBC News 08 Dec 2021
The capture in October of drug lord Dairo Antonio Úsuga was described by the Colombian government as "the most important blow to drug trafficking since the fall of Pablo Escobar" ... But in an interview with the BBC, Colombian Minster of Defence Diego Molano insisted that Otoniel's arrest spelled "the end of the Gulf Clan" ... .
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Germany on new path as Scholz replaces Merkel as chancellor
Fresno Bee 08 Dec 2021
Olaf Scholz is set to take office Wednesday as Germany’s ninth post-World War II chancellor, succeeding Angela Merkel after her heralded 16-year tenure. Scholz's government takes office with high hopes ... .
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Russia risks becoming ‘appendage of China’ – Bolton
Russia Today 08 Dec 2021
Despite disagreements on many issues, Moscow and Washington could find common ground over Beijing, especially as Russia risks becoming an “appendage of China,” an ex-advisor of former US president Donald Trump has claimed ... Read more 5 key takeaways from Putin-Biden online summit ... “We have many fields of cooperation with China ... .
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US senator ‘won’t rule out’ nuclear strike against Russia
Russia Today 08 Dec 2021
Republican Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker gave a disturbing interview with Fox News where he floated the possibility of a ground deployment and nuclear strike against Russia should the US engage in a conflict over Ukraine. “I would not rule out military action ... On Fox News, Sen ... This is damn dangerous.
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Papua New Guinea holds mass Covid burial
The Times of India 08 Dec 2021
PORT MORESBY. Papua New Guinea carried out the first in a series of mass Covid-19 burials Wednesday, interring 54 people whose remains were unclaimed for months as the pandemic ravaged the under-resourced Melanesian nation ... The ceremony took place at Nine Mile Cemetery on the outskirts of the capital Port Moresby ... No families were present ... .
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Indian Army helicopter with CDS Gen Bipin Rawat on board crashes in Tamil Nadu
Urdu Point 08 Dec 2021
New Dehli ... There was fire and smoke at the spot ... Sources," stated the ANI ... The ANI while citing the sources reported that CDS Bipin Rawat's staff and family members were on board the Mi-series chopper along with him when it crashed between Coimbatore and Sulur in Tamil Nadu. (Details to Follow) ....
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Myanmar democracy in new era as Suu Kyi sidelined by army
The Times of India 08 Dec 2021
BANGKOK. In sentencing Myanmar's iconic democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to prison, the country's generals have effectively exiled her from electoral politics. But that doesn't mean the Southeast Asian nation is back to square one in its stop-start efforts to move toward democracy ... A de facto coup on Feb ... Start a Conversation. .
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UN refugee chief warns of world’s inability to restore peace
Indian Express 08 Dec 2021
The Indian Express website has been rated GREEN for its credibility and trustworthiness by Newsguard, a global service that rates news sources for their journalistic standards ... trustworthiness by Newsguard, a global service that rates news sources for their journalistic standards.
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‘More cautious’ China shifts Africa approach from debt to vaccine diplomacy
The Guardian 08 Dec 2021photo: AP / Ted S. Warren, Pool
Report: Apple CEO Tim Cook engineered a secret $275 billion deal with China - Ars Technica
WorldNews.com 08 Dec 2021
SAMUEL AXON - 12/7/2021, 11.03 PM. Today, The Information published a lengthy report detailing Apple CEO Tim Cook's efforts to establish strong relationships between Apple and Chinese government officials and agencies. Citing both interviews and direct access to internal Apple documents.. read full story. .
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Apple's 'secret $275 billion deal with China exposed
Beijing News 08 Dec 2021
Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly signed a 'secret? $275 billion deal with Chinese authorities to bypass restrictions on his company's operations, according to newly published internal documents ... A $300 million green energy fund was established by 2018, all seemingly in line with the five-year agreement ... READ MORE ... (RT.com) ....
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Journalists in China face ‘nightmare’ worthy of Mao era, press freedom group says
The Guardian 08 Dec 2021
Reporters Without Borders calls increasing media oppression in China a ‘great leap backwards’ and says Hong Kong journalism is ‘in freefall’ Xi Jinping has created a “nightmare” of media oppression worthy of the Mao era, and Hong Kong’s journalism is in “freefall”, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF) ... .
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Evergrande crisis is no Lehman moment for rising Chinese markets
Straits Times 08 Dec 2021
HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) - For all the warnings earlier this year that China Evergrande Group's debt crisis would become the country's Lehman moment, the developer's landmark payment failure on Monday (Dec 6) is barely registering in local financial markets ... The yuan strengthened to its highest level since May 2018 ... Beijing has helped cushion the blow.