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> SMARDAN, Romania - Around 600 French soldiers deployed as part of a NATO battlegroup in Romania held a combat exercise on Wednesday to test the 30-nation military alliance's readiness on its eastern flank, amid Russia's war in neighboring Ukraine.
> Romania's defense ministry said the main purpose of the exercise is to train the battlegroup "On the rapid deployment capability and execution of a combat mission" within a collective NATO defense operation.
> In response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine last February, NATO bolstered its presence on Europe's eastern flank, including by sending additional multinational battlegroups to alliance members Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Slovakia.
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Reply to US Seeks Reengagement with China to Stop Illicit Fentanyl as Blinken Heads to Beijing by Sweaty_Maybe1076
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> The United States is "Actively seeking to reengage" China on counternarcotics, including stopping the flow of illicit synthetic drugs like fentanyl into the U.S., said the State Department ahead of Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to Beijing in early February.
> "Though its past action has helped counter illicit synthetic drug flows, we do hope to see additional action from the PRC - meaningful, concrete action - to curb the diversion of precursor chemicals and equipment used by criminals to manufacture fentanyl and other synthetic drugs," State Department spokesperson Ned Price told VOA this week.
> While Beijing is no longer a major source of the synthetic opioid flowing to the United States, U.S. officials said Washington continues to see Chinese-origin precursor chemicals being used in illicit fentanyl production and other illicit synthetic drugs.
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> The UK government has allowed the emergency use of banned bee-toxic neonicotinoid pesticides in England for the third year in a row just days after the EU ruled out the practice.
> UK farming minister Mark Spencer said the decision came about after recognising the "Potential danger of an outbreak of the beet yellows virus on the nation's sugar beet crop and the impact it could have on the production of UK sugar."
> A representative from the EU sugar industry told EURACTIV they do not see the derogation as a direct threat to EU producers' competitiveness.
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> Two Amazon workers, who are members of the GMB, said the robots in the warehouse "Are treated better than us".
> Workers at the Coventry warehouse scan stock which is sent out to Amazon fulfilment centres, to be shipped to consumers.
> Amazon has been battling against unionisation in the US. More than half of the 8,000 workers at a warehouse on Staten Island, New York, voted to join the Amazon Labor Union which has now been officially certified.
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> India has banned a BBC documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's alleged role in deadly riots more than 20 years ago from being shown in the country, in a move critics decried as an assault on press freedom.
> The two-part documentary "India: The Modi Question," criticizes Modi, who was the chief minister of the western state of Gujarat in 2002 when riots broke out between the state's majority Hindus and minority Muslims.
> The BBC said Jack Straw, who was British foreign secretary in 2002 and features in the documentary, claims that Modi had "Played a pre-active part in pulling back the police and in tacitly encouraging the Hindu extremists."
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> The Internet Archive has taken down a widely circulated upload of the first episode of the BBC's The Modi Question, the documentary that questions Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership during the 2002 Gujarat Muslim genocide.
> The Internet Archive has emerged as one of the primary sources where the documentary has been shared for viewing by Indian users after multiple YouTube videos and more than a hundred tweets with links to the YouTube videos were ordered to be taken down by the Union government.
> The two-part BBC documentary cited a previously classified British foreign ministry report saying that Modi met senior police officers and "Ordered them not to intervene" in the attacks on Muslims that followed.
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Reply to WTO chief calls for global carbon pricing by DeepHistory
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> Adopting a global carbon pricing scheme could help countries streamline supply chains and mitigate concerns about competition, according to the head of the World Trade Organization.
> As a result, the WTO has begun working with the World Bank, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and the International Monetary Fund to streamline carbon pricing, Okonjo-Iweala confirmed.
> In addition to expressing her support for shared global carbon pricing framework, Okonjo-Iweala also called for the elimination of "Skewed" import tariffs that plague national borders today.
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> A 23-year-old hacker from Lucerne has caused chaos for the United States Transportation Security Administration after hacking the country's no-fly list.
> Through the vulnerable system, the hacker was able to gain access to a list which details information on 1,5 million known or suspected terrorists that are forbidden from flying.
> The hacker is already suspected of being behind a huge hack in the US in 2021, where more than 150.000 surveillance cameras belonging to the company Verkada were hacked.
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Reply to South Africa boosting ties with Russia: Minister ‘pleased with progress’ after hosting Russia’s Sergei Lavrov by skipthedamned
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> Pretoria - International Relations and Co-operation Minister Naledi Pandor has bid farewell to her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov after closed-door talks between officials of the two nations.
> "In her closing remarks after hosting Lavrov in Pretoria on Tuesday, Pandor said:"The discussions of today were frank and open, and I am pleased about the progress evident on a variety of issues between our two countries.
> In 2022, South Africa and Russia celebrated 30 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, and the Department of International Relations and Co-operation said the historical links between the two countries remained strong.
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> "As Ms. Wapichana performed the ritual, Indigenous people and government officials enthusiastically chanted"Yoohoo! Funai is ours!'' - a reference to the agency she will lead. Environmentalists, Indigenous people, and voters sympathetic to their causes were important to Mr. Lula's narrow victory over former President Jair Bolsonaro.
> Mr. Lula has more control in designating Indigenous territories, which are the best-preserved regions in the Amazon.
> Mr. Lula is under pressure to create 13 new Indigenous territories - a process that had stalled under Mr. Bolsonaro, who kept his promise not to grant "One more inch" of land to Indigenous peoples.
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> TAIPEI - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has written to Pope Francis to say that war between Taiwan and China is not an option and only by respecting the Taiwanese people's insistence on sovereignty and freedom can there be healthy ties with Beijing.
> The Vatican is Chinese-claimed Taiwan's sole European diplomatic ally, and Taipei has watched with concern as Pope Francis has moved to improve relations with China.
> China staged war games near Taiwan last August, and Beijing has never renounced the use of force to bring the island under its control.
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Reply to Germany: 5 charged with treason in suspected terror plot. Public prosecutors said the suspects had planned to create "civil war-like conditions" in Germany. They are also accused of plotting to kidnap the health minister by DoremusJessup
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> Treason charges have been brought against five people who allegedly planned to overthrow the German government, the federal prosecutor's office said Monday.
> The federal prosecutor's office found that the suspects wanted to take over the state and replace it with an "Authoritarian system of government based on the model of the German Empire."
> Members of the far-right Reichsbürger movement believe deep state conspiracy theories that deny the existence of Germany's post-World War II Federal Republic and reject the authority of the German government.
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> Tons of waste dumped in poorly regulated riverside landfills or directly into the waterways that flow across three countries end up accumulating behind a trash barrier in the Drina River in eastern Bosnia during the wet weather of winter and early spring.
> This week, the barrier once again became the outer edge of a massive floating waste dump crammed with plastic bottles, rusty barrels, used tires, household appliances, driftwood and other garbage picked up by the river from its tributaries.
> The river fencing installed by a Bosnian hydroelectric plant, a few kilometers upstream from its dam near Visegrad, has turned the city into an unwilling regional waste site, local environmental activists complain.
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> Tons of waste dumped in poorly regulated riverside landfills or directly into the waterways that flow across three countries end up accumulating behind a trash barrier in the Drina River in eastern Bosnia during the wet weather of winter and early spring.
> This week, the barrier once again became the outer edge of a massive floating waste dump crammed with plastic bottles, rusty barrels, used tires, household appliances, driftwood and other garbage picked up by the river from its tributaries.
> The river fencing installed by a Bosnian hydroelectric plant, a few kilometers upstream from its dam near Visegrad, has turned the city into an unwilling regional waste site, local environmental activists complain.
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Reply to Kyrgyz Workers With Russian Citizenship Prevented From Leaving Russia, Urged To Fight In Ukraine by -Fuck-You-Charles-
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> Some of the workers who have got Russian passports, and are eligible for the military draft, say they have been prevented from leaving Russia in recent weeks.
> Bekbolat, a Kyrgyz man who became a Russian citizen several years ago, said he was stopped by Russian border guards on December 22, 2022, when he tried to cross into Kazakhstan en route to Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.
> It's not known how many naturalized Russian citizens from Kyrgyzstan and other Central Asian countries have been recruited to the Russian Army to fight in Ukraine.
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> Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his government was expecting "Strong decisions" from defence leaders of NATO and other countries meeting on Friday to discuss boosting Ukraine's ability to confront Russian forces with modern battle tanks.
> While US representatives are there to discuss the latest massive package of aid Washington is sending - which includes Stryker armoured vehicles for the first time - broader hesitation over sending tanks to Ukraine has roiled the coalition.
> Bemoaning a "Lack of specific weaponry," he said, through an interpreter, "There are times where we shouldn't hesitate or we shouldn't compare when someone says, 'I will give tanks if someone else will also share his tanks.'".
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> A rare meteorite weighing 7.6kg has been uncovered in Antarctica by a researcher from the Swiss federal technology institute ETH Zurich, together with scientists from Belgium and the US. They say the stone is of great importance for research.
> "Finding a meteorite that's larger than a fist is extraordinary," said ETH Zurich earth scientist Maria Schönbächler, who was part of the Antarctica mission.
> "Antarctica is suitable for meteorite finds because the black stones are easily visible on the white snow," Schönbächler said.
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Reply to Top U.S., Ukrainian Generals Meet In Poland As Russia Intensifies Attacks In Eastern Ukraine by hieronymusanonymous
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> As Ukrainian forces sustained intensified Russian attacks in the east of the country, the top U.S. and Ukrainian military officers met for the first time at a secret location in southeastern Poland as Kyiv pressed the need for increased supplies of Western arms in its defense against Moscow's full-scale invasion.
> The meeting came as Ukrainian cities and troops faced relentless Russian attacks, mainly in the east of the country, over the past 24 hours and as Western allies prepared to meet in Germany to discuss giving Ukraine offensive armaments such as tanks, a major desire of leaders in Kyiv.
> U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is preparing to visit Berlin on January 19 and then host a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group the following day at the U.S. military base in Ramstein to discuss further support - including military aid - for Ukraine with allies.
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Reply to Dutch Constitution to be amended to ban discrimination based on sexuality or disability by DutchBlob
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> Article 1 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of the Netherlands will be expanded to prohibit discrimination against someone because of a disability or sexual orientation.
> The proposal to expand the first article of the Constitution, which succinctly deals with equality, has received enough support in a vote in the Eerste Kamer, the Dutch Senate.
> The Dutch Constitution does already state that discrimination "On any other grounds whatsoever shall not be permitted." However, the explicit mention of sexual orientation is an important moment for the rights of people who identify with diverse genders and sexualities, said COC Nederland.
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> Starting from 9 January, Russia has restricted conscripts from leaving the country, even those who are only partially fit for military service.
> "The possibility of leaving the country at all checkpoints in all directions will be closed for the departure of the specified categories of citizens."
> Details: At the same time, as follows from the text of the order, citizens who fall into the C category, that is, those who are unfit for military service, will also be banned from leaving the country.
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Reply to Russia intensifying cyberattacks on Poland by Sporeboss
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> Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Poland has been a constant target of Kremlin's hybrid efforts, including cyberattacks.
> "Hostile activity in cyberspace against Poland has intensified recently. This is a consequence of our active participation in helping Ukraine, which is fighting, as well as our determination to strengthen support for Kyiv in the international arena. Through hostile actions in cyberspace, Russia wants to put pressure on Poland as a front-line country and a key ally of Ukraine on NATO's eastern flank," ?aryn emphasized.
> In early December, the CSIRT GOV Poland team received information about a phishing website impersonating the government platform Gov.pl.
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> DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Iran's military tested new attack drones in the coastal area of the Gulf of Oman and near the strategic Strait of Hormuz Saturday as part of its ongoing annual drill, state TV reported.
> Iran has tested many other military drones over the past decade.
> The military drones have been a point of contention between Iran and the United States and its allies, which claim Tehran is supplying Moscow with drones that have been used in attacks in West-backed Ukraine.
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> New Year's Eve saw temperatures rise to 20°C in canton Jura.
> As the weather service Meteonews announced on Saturday, New Year's Eve 2022 in Delsberg, the Jura cantonal capital, also caused the second highest temperature ever measured in December.
> Temperatures that are high for the time of year were also measured on Saturday in in Basel-Binningen, St. Gallen and Adelboden BE. The weather service had already warned of possible high temperature records on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day in several parts of Switzerland.
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Reply to Iran's top court has ordered the retrial of a third death row inmate sentenced over the nationwide protests that started more than 100 days ago, the judiciary said Saturday by DoremusJessup
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> Paris - Iran's top court has ordered the retrial of a third death row inmate sentenced over the nationwide protests that started more than 100 days ago, the judiciary said Saturday.
> In an updated death toll issued Tuesday, Oslo-based group group Iran Human Rights said 476 protesters have been killed so far.
> Nourmohammad-Zadeh is the third person reportedly on death row to be allowed a retrial after Kurdish rapper Saman Seydi, also known as Saman Yasin, and Mahan Sadrat.
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Reply to Norway will send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. The goverment is planning a larger contribution that will span several years. by Noxzen
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> We are in close dialogue with allies and Ukraine on how Norway can contribute in the best possible way.
> Norway has contributed significantly throughout 2022 and will continue to support Ukraine in 2023, says Minister of Defence Bjørn Arild Gram.
> Norwegian military support to Ukraine consists of donations from our own stock, contributions to international collaborative efforts, donations of equipment straight from the industry and the training of Ukrainian military personnel.
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