Theme: TAX_WORLDLANGUAGES_MAHARASHTRA
Source: reuters.com
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Jan Tschada
U.S. and Iran to begin indirect talks on limiting nuclear program
Theme: SANCTIONS
Source: cbsnews.com
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EU slaps sanctions on 4 Chinese officials over Uyghur abuses
Theme: SANCTIONS
Source: latimes.com
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- https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-09-25/australian-think-tank-detention-camps-xinjiang-uighur-china
- https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-17/china-xinjiang-uighurs-muslim-minority-camps
- https://www.latimes.com/world/la-xpm-2013-jul-11-la-fg-wn-russia-magnitsky-guilty-20130711-story.html
Russia demands apology after Biden called Putin a killer
Theme: TAX_WORLDLANGUAGES_RUSSIA
Source: dailymail.co.uk
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Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire strained by recriminations, fighting reports
A bunch of new attacks were launched in and around Nagorno-Karabakh.
- Cardinal Dolan calls for „the shield of faith“ to protect Armenian Christians
- Baku: new clashes in Nagorno-Karabakh after Washington talks
- Karabakh: French media pressured over upper Karabakh
The Khojaly district is located in the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
Stepanakert is the capital of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Source: reuters.com
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Kyrgyzstan president calls in military as protesters clash in streets
The situation in the capital Bishkek seemed calm after Jeenbekov declared a state of emergency, which imposed traffic restrictions and banned public gatherings.
Source: wikimapia.com
Bishkek is a city of wide boulevards and marble-faced public buildings combined with numerous Soviet-style apartment blocks surrounding interior courtyards and, especially outside the city center, thousands of smaller, often privately built houses. It is laid out on a grid pattern, with most streets flanked on both sides by narrow irrigation channels that water the innumerable trees which provide shade in the hot summers.
Source: reuters.com
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Exclusive: Suspected arms dealers moved millions in Somali money transfers, report says
The company Amal Express runs the semi-formal transfer service known as Hawala in most of the East African countries. They invited the Central Bank of Somalia to audit their internal systems.
This is a reaction to a report being published by the Geneva-based Global Initiative Against Organised Crime. The report claim that a number of Hawala service providers had been used for illegal payments to arm dealers in Yemen. The seaport of Bosaso seems to be the origin for most of these illegal payments.
Source: reuters.com
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Harris, home in California, gets a look at wildfire damage
There is no patience for climate-change deniers. The last wildfires were the largest California has ever seen. There was a meeting between California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Donal Trump which took place at McClelland park near Sacramento.
Source: yahoo.com
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Saudi coalition in Yemen attacks Sanaa targets – Yemeni army, residents
A commander of the 110th Infantry Brigade was killed as a result of the fighting in The Khab and Al-Shaaf district northeast of the Al-Jouf province.
The militants of the Group al-Houthi launched a major offensive to retake positions taken by government forces on Friday east of the city of Al-Hazm, the center of Al-Jouf province, and units of the (110-infantry brigade) were able to thwart the attack. Heavy fighting are taking place in several areas northeast and east of the city of Al-Hazm, while the fighters of the Saudi-led Arab coalition with intensive air strikes targeted mobile and fixed targets of the Houthis.
Yemeni government forces launched a military operation in Al-Jouf, recapturing the strategic Camp Al-Khanjar and important sites, including the Nadoud Mountain Range, and reached near Al-Marazeq, the eastern gate of the provincial capital. The Houthis have controlled the city of Al-Hazm and large areas of the strategic province, large parts of which are located on the border with Saudi Arabia.
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Standoff as Michel Barnier arrives in London for crunch trade talks
Time is ticking, the official deadline for the Brexit deal is October the 15th. It seems to be a kind of „Australia-style“ arrangement, which is an euphemism for failure to reach a free trade agreement with the EU. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron have held last-minute Brexit talks over phone.
There are only four located news regarding „Brexit talks“ which were updated in the last 24h.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
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