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    • Apr- 2023 -
      1 April

      Belarus to restore Soviet launch sites for Putin’s nuclear missiles

      Belarus will repair disused Soviet missile silos as part of the Vladimir Putin’s plan to deploy nuclear weapons in the country, its President has said. Alexander Lukashenko made the pledge during a speech to Belarus’ parliament in which he also formally accepted the Kremlin’s demand to station nuclear missiles in the country. “I am not trying to intimidate or blackmail anyone. I want to safeguard the Belarusian state and ensure peace for the Belarusian people,” he said Russia’s Kommersant newspaper reported that Mr Lukashenko told his military to repair sites in Belarus where Soviet Topol missile systems armed with nuclear warheads were previously stored. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Belarus had been left with nuclear missiles.…

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    • 1 April

      Trump’s ‘knees don’t buckle’ and he will not take a plea deal, says lawyer

      In an interview with Sky News’ US partner NBC News, Joe Tacopina said his client is “ready to fight” and was not going to “hole up” in his exclusive Mar-a-Lago golf resort in Florida. He was speaking as Trump faces a mug shot, finger-printing and a court appearance after being indicted by a grand jury in New York over an alleged hush money payment to an adult film actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election campaign. The $130,000 (£105,000) payment was allegedly made in exchange for Daniels’ silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter a decade earlier. He is the first former US president to face criminal charges in court, even as he makes a bid to retake the White House in 2024. Pressed over…

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    • 1 April

      Rishi Sunak spent £500k on private jets in six weeks in ‘shocking waste’ of taxpayers’ cash

      Rishi Sunak splashed more than £500,000 of taxpayers’ cash on private jet hire in a matter of weeks, official figures show. Documents slipped out on the final day before MPs went on their Easter break show the jet-setting Prime Minister racked up a bill of £512,321 in travel costs for trips to Egypt, Bali, Latvia and Estonia last year. Mr Sunak U-turned on his plans to skip the COP27 summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in November, after his Tory rival Boris Johnson decided to attend. Government figures show plane hire for the visit cost £107,966, with the PM’s personal costs coming in at £3,483, including visas, accommodation, travel and meals. Days later Mr Sunak flew out to Bali for a five-day trip to the…

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    • Mar- 2023 -
      31 March

      Russian ‘invasion was wrong’: Views from China on war in Ukraine

      As the war in Ukraine grinds on, some in China have abandoned their initial support for Russia and Putin. A boy holds Russian and Chinese flags at a welcoming ceremony for Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in 2016 [File Mark Schiefelbein/] Liu-wen Fang’s tears flowed when she saw the first images of Kyiv under attack and on fire as Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022. The 26-year-old had supplemented her degree in business with an exchange year in the Ukrainian capital in 2018 where she studied the Russian and Ukrainian languages at a big university. During that year, she grew very fond of Kyiv and its people. She remembers walking the…

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    • 31 March

      Malaysian court rejects ex-PM Najib bid to review corruption case

      Judge dismissed Najib Razak’s case review saying the ex-prime minister was ‘the author of his own misfortunes’. Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, right, arrives at Kuala Lumpur High Court, Malaysia in 2019 [File: Vincent Thian] Malaysia’s top court has dismissed a bid by jailed former Prime Minister Najib Razak to review his corruption conviction over the multi-billion dollar scandal at state fund 1MDB, ending Najib’s judicial efforts to challenge the guilty verdict. Najib was jailed last year after Malaysia’s Federal Court upheld a guilty verdict and 12-year prison sentence handed down to him by a lower court. Najib, 69, claimed he had not received a fair hearing, alleging one judge had a conflict of interest and that his new legal team was…

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    • 31 March

      Lessons from Australia: UK’s migration law set to repeat mistakes

      Activists, lawyers and refugees see the UK repeating the mistakes and abuses of Australia’s draconian asylum seeker law. People hold placards as they gather in central Dover to attend a ‘Refugees Welcome’ rally organised by Stand Up To Racism on the southeast coast of England, on March 4, 2023 [File: Susannah Ireland] Plans by the United Kingdom to detain and deport asylum seekers who arrive on its shores by unauthorised means, such as in small boats, is a replica of Australia’s notorious Operation Sovereign Borders, activists, lawyers and refugees in Australia say. The UK’s proposed Illegal Migration Bill, they say, will be ineffective against people smugglers, like the Australian policy, and will also destroy the lives of people seeking asylum through…

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    • 31 March

      ‘Sad day for America’: NYT, WSJ react to Trump’s indictment

      Top US newspapers give mixed reaction to historic indictment of former president. The New York Times’ editorial board said Donald Trump spent years ‘behaving as if rules didn’t apply to him’ Donald Trump will be the first former United States president to face criminal charges, following a New York grand jury’s vote to indict him. The historic announcement by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office on Thursday night followed weeks of speculation about the pending arrest of the former president and 2024 presidential hopeful. While the specific charges are still under seal, they are believed to relate to a $130,000 payment that Trump’s former lawyer made to adult film star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 US presidential campaign. The development prompted strong…

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    • 31 March

      Pakistan’s female agriculture workers suffering since 2022 floods

      Seven months after the catastrophic deluge destroyed homes and crops, millions of women continue to live in debt and penury. For Haleema Aslam, the floods brought distress and misery as the water washed away her mature crops and livestock Dadu, Sindh, Pakistan – On a cloudy spring afternoon at Dital Khan Chandio village in Pakistan’s Sindh province, a group of female agricultural workers are busy stitching traditional handicraft items outside their makeshift tents next to stagnant floodwaters. The village in Dadu district, about 380km (235 miles) from Pakistan’s largest city Karachi, was one of the worst affected by last year’s catastrophic floods, caused by melting glaciers and record monsoons – both induced by climate change. The floods affected 33 million people, destroyed 2.2…

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    • 31 March

      Pakistan court strikes down colonial-era sedition law

       (Representative image) Lahore: A high court in Pakistan on Thursday struck down a colonial-era sedition law that criminalised criticism of the federal and provincial governments, terming it inconsistent with the Constitution. ustice Shahid Karim of the Lahore High Court (LHC) annulled Section 124-A of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) dealing with sedition, the Dawn newspaper reported. Justice Karim pronounced the verdict in response to identical petitions seeking to annul the sedition law, the paper said. One of the petitions, filed by a citizen named Haroon Farooq, which was identical to all other pleas urged the court to declare Section 124-A of the PPC as “ultra-vires in terms of Article 8 of the Constitution being inconsistent with and in derogation of fundamental…

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    • 31 March

      Indian-American Ajay Banga sole nominee to lead World Bank

      World Bank said that a formal interview will be conducted with the candidate in Washington DC  (Photo: Twitter) Washington: The World Bank has said that Indian-American Ajay Banga is the only candidate nominated for the President’s position as the nomination period closed on March 29. The World Bank announced that Ajay Banga will be considered for the position. In a press release issued on its website, the World Bank said, “The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors today confirmed that, as announced on February 22, the period for submitting nominations for the position of the next President of the World Bank Group closed on Wednesday, March 29 at 6:00 pm ET.” The World Bank further said, “The Board received one…

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