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So what has the rest of the world promised to do about climate change?
The Guardian 19 Apr 2021
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5 Wounded in Rocket Attack on Iraqi Base Hosting US Troops
Beijing News 19 Apr 2021
SAMARRA, IRAQ - Five rockets targeted an Iraqi airbase hosting U.S. soldiers Sunday, wounding two foreign contractors and three Iraqi soldiers, in the latest attack coinciding with tensions between Baghdad's allies Tehran and Washington. Two of the rockets fired at Balad airbase, north of Baghdad, crashed into a dormitory and a canteen of U.S ... ....
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12 European football teams to form breakaway 'Super League' throwing elite game into turmoil
CNN 19 Apr 2021
(CNN)Twelve of Europe's top soccer clubs have announced plans to form a so-called European super league, in a move that looks set to rock the foundations of the sport's top competitions, including preeminent leagues in England, Spain and Italy and extending all the way up to the World Cup ... Read More ... Super League players could face bans ... .
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Arms race rapidly heats up between the two Koreas
The Independent 19 Apr 2021
Pride and jealousy have driven North and South Korea to engage in propaganda shouting matches and compete over who could build a taller flagpole on their border. Now that one-upmanship is intensifying a much more dangerous side of their rivalry. the arms race ... The country also recently revealed plans to acquire dozens of new US combat helicopters ... .
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Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver to Open Cannes with 'Annette'
The Hollywood Reporter 19 Apr 2021
The L.A.-set drama from 'Holy Motors' director Leos Carax will open the 74th Cannes Film Festival on July 6. Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver are heading to Cannes. Annette, the new drama from French director Leos Carax, starring Cotillard and Driver, will open the 74th Cannes Film Festival, premiering in competition in Cannes on Tuesday, July 6 ... U.S.
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The Supreme Court’s Increasingly Dim View of the News Media
New York Times 19 Apr 2021photo: AP / Leo Correa
Police killing hundreds in Rio de Janeiro despite court ban on favela raids
The Observer 18 Apr 2021
Nearly 800 people were killed by police in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro in the past nine months, as raids remain a terrifying routine for favela families – despite a supreme court ruling to halt incursions during the coronavirus pandemic ... Black lives shattered. outrage as boy, 14, is Brazil police's latest victim. Read more ... Photograph ... .
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Jailed Navalny to be moved to a hospital in another prison
Bennington Banner 19 Apr 2021
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian state penitentiary service said Monday a decision has been made to transfer imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is in the third week of a hunger strike, to a hospital ... According to the statement, Navalny’s condition is deemed “satisfactory” and he has agreed to take vitamin therapy ... All rights reserved.
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France’s Macron Seeks Change in Law After Jewish Woman’s Murderer Escapes Trial
Hamodia 19 Apr 2021
French President Emmanuel Macron urged a change in the country’s law during an interview with Le Figaro published Monday, after a man who murdered a Jewish woman in 2017 avoided a trial on the grounds he acted in delirium due to taking drugs ... Sarah Halimi, Hy”d. Mrs ... French Jews have been repeatedly targeted by terrorists in recent years ... .
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Russia expels 20 Czech diplomats in retaliation
China Daily 19 Apr 2021
MOSCOW -- The Russian Foreign Ministry said Sunday that it is expelling 20 staffers of the Czech embassy in Moscow in response to the expulsion of 18 Russian diplomats from the Czech Republic ... sanctions against Russia. .
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Tesla With 'No Driver' in Fatal US Crash, 2 Killed: Report
NDTV 19 Apr 2021
A Tesla car was involved in a deadly crash in Texas, US on Sunday that killed two men, according to US media reports. The police that arrived at the scene said preliminary investigation determines... .
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The Gibraltar Massacre
WorldNews.com 19 Apr 2021
By Gilad Atzmon. Gibraltar currently has the world’s worst Covid-19 death rate per capita (2791 per million at time of publication). The disaster started on December 12, when an unprecedented surge in cases was witnessed (see graph below). Until that point in time, like in other European countries, Covid cases had been in constant decline for a while.
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Syrian Prez polls to be held in May: Parliament
Suryaa 19 Apr 2021
Damascus, April 19 (IANS) The Syrian presidential elections will be held in May, seven years after the last polls took place in the war-torn country, the country's Parliament announced ... Sabbagh called on those who wish to run to submit their candidacy applications to the Supreme Constitutional Court within a period of 10 days which ends on April 28.
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Israel and Greece sign record defence deal
Al Jazeera 18 Apr 2021
Elbit will supply kits to upgrade and operate Greece’s T-6 aircraft and also provide training, simulators and logistical support ... Greece and Cyprus are embroiled in a dispute with Turkey, which has sent gas prospecting vessels into waters claimed by Greece and drilling ships into an area where Cyprus claims exclusive rights ... .
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SA needs to act now to maximise benefits of cannabis sector
Beijing News 19 Apr 2021
There is so much potential in a legal cannabis sector in South Africa, but we are being left behind in this emerging global industry when we should, and could, be leading it ... These were the key messages of a webinar hosted by the Cannabis Organisation University of Pretoria (which I am part of) on 8 April 2021 ... READ ... Price taker ... WATCH ... Source.
