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Reply to Iranian Sunni Cleric Says Rights Of Baha'is, Other Minorities Must Be Respected by Sahar1224
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> The Sunni Friday prayer leader of the eastern Iranian city of Zahedan has urged the country's Shia clerical leaders to respect the rights of all religious minorities and to stop accusing members of Iran's persecuted Baha'i religious community with apostasy.
> Molavi Abdolhamid, Iran's most prominent Sunni cleric, has repeatedly criticized the Islamic Republic's harsh response to an ongoing wave of protests demanding more freedoms and women's rights.
> At least 100 protesters are facing death penalty charges or execution, according to the Norway-based Iran Human Rights group.
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Reply to UN asks ICJ to consider ‘consequences’ for Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories by glawgii
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> The Palestinians on Saturday welcomed a vote by the United Nations General Assembly requesting that the International Court of Justice provide an opinion on the legal consequences of Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories.
> Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem - areas the Palestinians want for a state - in a 1967 war.
> Senior Palestinian official Hussein al-Sheikh said on Twitter that the vote "Reflects the victory of Palestinian diplomacy." There were 87 members who voted in favour of adopting the request; Israel, the United States and 24 other members voted against; and 53 abstained.
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Reply to China's manufacturing activity contracted sharply in December for the third month in a row, according to official figures released Saturday, despite Beijing's loosening of Covid restrictions at the beginning of the month by DoremusJessup
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> Beijing - China's manufacturing activity contracted sharply in December for the third month in a row, according to official figures released Saturday, despite Beijing's loosening of Covid restrictions at the beginning of the month.
> On December 7, Beijing abruptly loosened pandemic restrictions, but despite that, the country is still struggling to recover due to a surge in Covid cases.
> "In December, due to the impact of the epidemic and other factors... China's economic prosperity has generally declined," NBS senior statistician Zhao Qinghe said in a statement.
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Reply to Italy passes controversial decree cracking down on unlicensed rave parties, laying out jail terms of up to six years and fines for the organisers by green_flash
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> Italy's lower house of parliament has given its final approval to a government decree cracking down on unlicensed rave parties, laying out jail terms and fines for the organisers.
> Cabinet passed the decree late in October just days after the new right-wing administration of Giorgia Meloni was sworn in, immediately signalling a tougher approach on public order following complaints over a Halloween party in northern Italy.
> Former mayor of Turin Chiara Appendino, a 5-Star deputy, has called the decree an "Abomination" which in reality "Has little or nothing to do with rave parties".
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> The missile landed near the city of Ivanovo in the Brest region in the country, Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported, citing the press service of the Belarusian Defense Ministry, which added that the missile fell between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. local time.
> Belarus' air defenses took down the missile near the village of Harbacha in the Brest region, which is located around nine miles from the Ukrainian border, the Belarusian defense ministry said.
> It has been reportedly assumed that the S-300 missile accidentally fell in Belarusian territory the same way that a Russian-made missile landed in NATO member Poland in November, raising concerns about a possible escalation of the Russian war going beyond Ukrainian borders.
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Reply to Russia is Europe's most dangerous country for journalists, Reporters Without Borders says by sckitzo
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> Meeting calling for protection for journalists - Copyright ADEM ALTAN/AFP. In a year which has seen an increase in the killing of journalists in the course of their work, Reporters Without Borders has released figures showing 1,668 have died in violence over the past two decades.
> The NGO points to 2012 and 2013 as being the deadliest years for journalists on reporting missions.
> Over two decades Russia has been Europe's most dangerous country with targeted killings of reporters such as Kremlin critic Ann Politkovskaya.
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Reply to Kazakhstan Deports Russian FSB Officer Who Fled To Avoid Being Sent To Fight In Ukraine by Zhukov-74
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> Northern Kosovo, where ethnic Serbs are a majority, has been on edge since November, when hundreds of ethnic Serb policemen, judges, and prosecutors walked off the job in protest at a decision by Pristina to ban the Belgrade-issued license plates inside Kosovo.
> On December 28, Kosovar authorities sought to defuse tensions, announcing the release of ethnic Serb ex-police officer Dejan Pantic, whose arrest on December 10 prompted hundreds of outraged ethnic Serbs to set up roadblocks in northern Kosovo and paralyzed traffic through two border crossings.
> Pantic, who had been arrested on suspicion of being involved in an attack on Central Election Commission officials, was to be placed under house arrest, his lawyer told RFE/RL. The EU-U.S. joint statement welcomed assurances from Kosovo that no lists of Kosovo Serb citizens to be arrested or prosecuted for holding peaceful protests or setting up barricades exist.
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Reply to Brazil's outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro, who has not acknowledged his electoral defeat, bid followers a tearful farewell Friday without stating whether he would attend Sunday's inauguration of victor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva by DoremusJessup
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> Brazil's outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro, who has not acknowledged his electoral defeat, bid followers a tearful farewell Friday without stating whether he would attend Sunday's inauguration of victor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
> In a live broadcast on social media, the far-right Bolsonaro assured supporters that "We will not see the world end on January 1" when leftist Lula takes office.
> The president spoke for the first time about a failed bomb attack in Brasilia a week ago by a man who said he was a Bolsonaro supporter seeking to sow "Chaos" ahead of the inauguration and "Prevent the establishment of communism in Brazil" under Lula.
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> The UK is set to announce that passengers coming from China will have to provide a negative Covid test before they travel to Britain.
> The UK has become the latest nation to bring in screening for travellers from China after cases surged following Beijing's decision to relax its zero-Covid policy.
> It is understood the UK will demand a negative test before travellers can board a flight from mainland China - bringing Britain into line with the approach taken by the US. While the announcement has not yet been formally made, the UK defence secretary confirmed on Friday that the government was reviewing the need for testing for passengers from China.
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> RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Thursday that Sônia Guajajara will head up a new Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, with a mandate to oversee policies ranging from land demarcation to health care.
> After the official announcement of her appointment and 15 others in the capital of Brasilia Thursday, several Indigenous organizations, among them the Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon, congratulated her in social media for the nomination.
> An organization of officials who work in Indigenous affairs also congratulated the future minister and the Indigenous social movement in general for the nomination.
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> The Office of the President is preparing to appoint an ambassador to China.
> The President's Office will likely choose a serving minister as the new ambassador to China, Ukrainian journalist and editor-in-chief of the Glavcom information and analytical website, Viktor Shlinchak, said on Radio NV on Dec. 29.
> There has been no Ukrainian ambassador to China since Feb. 14, 2021, the day the then-ambassador, Serhiy Kamyshev, died of a heart attack.
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Reply to Nearly 1,700 journalists killed over past 20 years, says Reporters Without Borders by DoremusJessup
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> Nearly 1,700 journalists have been killed worldwide over the past 20 years, an average of more than 80 a year, according to an analysis published by Reporters Without Borders.
> Iraq and Syria were the most dangerous countries to work as a journalist, accounting for "a combined total of 578 journalists killed in the past 20 years, or more than a third of the worldwide total", RSF said.
> Ukraine is currently the most dangerous country in Europe for the media, after Russia itself, where 25 journalists have been killed over the past 20 years.
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> MOSCOW, Dec 30 - The co-founder of Russian internet giant Yandex, Arkady Volozh, said goodbye in an internal message to staff on Friday ahead of a corporate restructuring that could see ownership of many of the firm's core services change hands.
> "As you know, I haven't really been involved in Yandex's Russian business for some time, but this year I had to step down from the company completely," Volozh said in the message, seen by Reuters.
> Yandex's Dutch-registered holding company last month said it planned to divest ownership and control of most of Yandex Group, including its main revenue-generating businesses, a move that could lead to enhanced Kremlin influence over some of Russia's backbone internet services.
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> Russia staged a new large-scale missile attack on Ukraine.
> Missile fragments, the results of a mass missile strike on Ukraine on Dec. 29, damaged two residential houses, an industrial facility, and a children's playground in different districts of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv as of 9.30 a.m., Kyiv City's Military Administration reported on Telegram.
> Later, the administration reported that two people in Kyiv's Darnytskyi district had been reported injured in the attack so far.
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> South Korea's Defense Ministry said Friday night that the multiple unidentified aircraft flying over the sky was a successful test of its solid-fuel space rocket.
> South Korea launched a solid-fuel space rocket for the first time in March, as part of a project to develop civilian and military surveillance satellites.
> The March launch was the first test since South Korea and the United States agreed last year to end restrictions on the country's ballistic missile and rocket development.
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Reply to Iranian author said sentenced to death for giving interview to Israeli TV channel by essential_projection
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> Iran has sentenced a dissident author to death on "Espionage" charges after he gave an interview earlier in the year to an Israeli television channel, opposition-affiliated media reported Thursday.
> In recent days at least 11 people have been sentenced to death for their role in protests and more than 100 face the death penalty, according to opposition groups.
> Protests have gripped Iran since the September 16 death in custody of Iranian-Kurdish Mahsa Amini, 22, after her arrest in Tehran for an alleged breach of the country's strict dress code for women.
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> Fighting in Ukraine is currently at a deadlock as neither Ukraine nor Russia can make significant advances, the head of the Ukrainian military intelligence agency has said, while Kyiv waits for more advanced weapons from Western allies.
> Although Iran has provided most of the drones used in Russia's attacks, the spy chief says it has so far refused to deliver missiles to Russia, aware that Western countries are likely to impose measures on Tehran, already under crippling sanctions because of its nuclear programme.
> The war may be deadlocked for now, but Mr Budanov is adamant that Ukraine will ultimately retake all the territory now under occupation, including Crimea, the peninsula that Russia seized in 2014.
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Reply to A Myanmar military court has sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to a further seven years in prison by icedpickles
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> A Myanmar military court has sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to a further seven years in prison, taking her overall jail time to 33 years.
> Amnesty International has previously said the "Relentless legal assault" on Ms Suu Kyi shows how the military has "Weaponised the courts to bring politically motivated or farcical charges against opponents".
> The military's violent seizure of power last February triggered widespread demonstrations, prompting Myanmar's military to crack down on pro-democracy protesters and activists.
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> SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook's corporate parent has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the world's largest social media platform allowed millions of its users' personal information to be fed to Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump's victorious presidential campaign in 2016.
> The case sprang from 2018 revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a firm with ties to Trump political strategist Steve Bannon, had paid a Facebook app developer for access to the personal information of about 87 million users of the platform.
> The lawsuit, which had been seeking to be certified as a class action representing Facebook users, had asserted the privacy breach proved Facebook is a "Data broker and surveillance firm," as well as a social network.
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Reply to Petro accuses Peru of violating the American Human Rights Convention with the dismissal of Pedro Castillo by lordofjives
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> Scotland would be stripped of its army if it became independent, a Scottish foreign policy expert has said, explaining that even Scottish divisions of the UK armed forces are owned by the Government in Westminster.
> The "mini-inquiry" will identify what the UK Government can do to further bolster North Atlantic and Arctic defence capabilities in Scotland, while the Scottish Affairs Committee will examine Scotland's role in the UK Government's Arctic Strategy, which was published in March 2022.
> Last year, defence expert John Gower claimed that Trident may be forced overseas or halted if Scotland gains independence because key Trident assets - such as the Faslane submarine base, the warhead loading site at Coulport, and nearby testing ranges - are all located in Scotland or Scottish waters.
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Reply to Armenians turn fire toward Russia as Nagorno-Karabakh blockade enters third week by machinesaredumb
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> As the near-total closure of the only road in and out of Nagorno-Karabakh enters its third week, the ongoing standoff has sparked fears that the precarious humanitarian situation is threatening to undermine the fragile Moscow-brokered peace agreement that ended the war over the breakaway region two years ago.
> Thousands of Karabakh Armenians turned out as part of a series of rallies on December 27 against the ongoing blockade, with dozens setting up a picket line outside the gates of the Russian peacekeeping mission's headquarters at an unused airport near Stepanakert, the de facto capital of Karabakh.
> The demonstrations on the road began on December 12, ostensibly over allegations the Karabakh Armenians were polluting the environment by illegally mining gold in the region, inside Azerbaijan's internationally-recognized borders but held by its ethnic Armenian majority since a war that followed the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Reply to A Bolivian prosecutor said Thursday he had requested six months of pre-trial detention for a key opposition leader and former presidential candidate detained a day earlier on charges of "terrorism" by DoremusJessup
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> Camacho led protests this year demanding a new population census that will likely increase the opposition stronghold's representation in the national legislature, and grant it greater access to state funds.
> Camacho, who leads the second-largest opposition bloc in parliament, came third in presidential elections in October 2020, which were won by leftist Luis Arce, a Morales protege.
> After learning of Camacho's arrest, supporters barricaded streets in Santa Cruz with paving stones, tree branches and vehicles to demand his release.
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> Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed Wednesday that his government will attend the meeting in Switzerland, and that he spoke with BlackRock Inc CEO Larry Fink again about financing the postwar reconstruction effort.
> According to Bloomberg, Zelensky also discussed the possibility of Italy contributing to the strengthening of Ukraine's air defences with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
> Zelensky appeared via video at the previous meeting in May, when he compared his country to Israel in conversation with WEF chief Klaus Schwab.
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> Major world powers have called on the Taliban to urgently reverse a "Reckless and dangerous" decision to ban women from working for aid agencies and charities.
> In a joint statement, foreign ministers from 12 countries, as well as an EU representative, warned the ban on women working in non-governmental organisations would have an inevitable impact on UN aid programmes because many of these multimillion-dollar relief efforts were delivered and designed by NGOs.
> "The Taliban continue to demonstrate their contempt for the rights, freedoms, and welfare of the Afghan people, particularly women and girls, and their disinterest in normal relations with the international community," the statement read. "[We] are in close contact with the United Nations, who are urging, also on behalf of all international donors, that the Taliban reverse this decision immediately.
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Reply to Covid in China: Officials must share data on its impact, says WHO by Sahar1224
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> Chinese officials must share more real-time information on Covid in the country as infections surge, the World Health Organization has said.
> In a statement issued after talks with Chinese officials the UN health agency said: "WHO again asked for regular sharing of specific and real-time data on the epidemiological situation... and data on vaccinations delivered and vaccination status, especially in vulnerable people and those over 60.".
> Officially there have only been 13 Covid deaths throughout December, but UK-based health data firm Airfinity said on Thursday that around 9,000 people in China are probably dying each day from the disease.
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