AstraZeneca Vaccine Faces New Setbacks in U.K. and European Union

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Theme: GENERAL_HEALTH

Source: nytimes.com

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India’s daily virus cases breach 100,000 politicians still hold huge rallies

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Theme: TAX_WORLDLANGUAGES_MAHARASHTRA

Source: reuters.com

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EU slaps sanctions on 4 Chinese officials over Uyghur abuses

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Theme: SANCTIONS

Source: latimes.com

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Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire strained by recriminations, fighting reports

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A bunch of new attacks were launched in and around Nagorno-Karabakh.

Heatmap of news related to Nagorno-Karabakh, © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  • Karabakh: French media pressured over upper Karabakh
News related to Nagorno-Karabakh, © OpenStreetMap contributors

The Khojaly district is located in the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.

Khojaly District, Azerbaijan © OpenStreetMap contributors

Stepanakert is the capital of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan © OpenStreetMap contributors

Source: reuters.com

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Kyrgyzstan president calls in military as protesters clash in streets

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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.

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan © OpenStreetMap contributors

Source: reuters.com

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Exclusive: Suspected arms dealers moved millions in Somali money transfers, report says

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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.

Bosaso, Somalia © OpenStreetMap contributors

Source: reuters.com

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Harris, home in California, gets a look at wildfire damage

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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.

McClelland Airfield, Sacramento © OpenStreetMap contributors

Source: yahoo.com

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Saudi coalition in Yemen attacks Sanaa targets – Yemeni army, residents

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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.

Sanaa, Yemen © OpenStreetMap contributors

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