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      1 February

      Timeline: Two years since the Myanmar military coup

      The conflict between the military and anti-coup fighters has deepened with violence in nearly all parts of the country. Anti-coup forces, including the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force, continue their fight against the military regime [File: Karenni Nationalities Defence Force via AFP] February 1 marks two years since the military, led by army chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, seized control of Myanmar. In the past year, the generals have stepped up their efforts to wipe out all opposition to their rule. Timeline: Two years since the Myanmar military coup The conflict between the military and anti-coup fighters has deepened with violence in nearly all parts of the country. Anti-coup forces, including the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force, continue their fight against…

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    • 1 February

      US readying new $2bn Ukraine weapons package: Report

      Military aid will include longer-range weapons that could help Ukraine disrupt activity behind Russian lines. The new aid package is also expected to include support equipment for the Javelin anti-tank missile [File: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters] The United States is readying more than $2bn worth of military aid for Ukraine that is expected to include longer-range rockets for the first time as well as other munitions and weapons, according to the Reuters news agency, citing two US officials briefed on the plan. The aid is expected to be announced as soon as this week, the officials said on Wednesday. It is also expected to include support equipment for Patriot air defence systems, precision-guided munitions and Javelin anti-tank weapons, they added. One of the…

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    • 1 February

      Embattled Representative George Santos steps down from committees

      The Republican from New York faces ongoing scrutiny into his finances as well as falsehoods he made during his campaign. US Representative George Santos returns to his office after telling a Republican party conference that he will temporarily remove himself from House committee assignments [Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters] United States Representative George Santos has announced that he will temporarily step down from his committee assignments, as he faces criticism and investigations over his finances and false claims he made. The freshman Republican had previously been named to two relatively low-profile Congressional committees: one on small business and the other on science, space and technology. But on Tuesday, Santos issued a prepared statement saying he was leaving the posts for the time being, in order to…

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    • 1 February

      Twitter shuts down its collaborative posting feature ‘CoTweets’

      “For the last several months we’ve been testing a new way to tweet together using CoTweets. We’re sad to say that the current experiment is coming to an end,” the platform said on its help centre page. San Francisco: Twitter has announced that it has shut down its collaborative posting feature ‘CoTweets’, which the micro-blogging platform had been testing for the “last several months”. “For the last several months we’ve been testing a new way to tweet together using CoTweets. We’re sad to say that the current experiment is coming to an end,” the platform said on its help centre page. “CoTweets will no longer be available to create starting Tuesday, 1/31. Already existing CoTweets will be viewable for one more month…

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    • 1 February

      US to train Indian astronauts, cooperate on planetary defence

      National Security Advisers (NSA) Ajit Doval of India and Jake Sullivan of the US led the iCET meeting at which space, scientific, defence and commerce officials participated. New York: The US will provide advanced training for an Indian astronaut and the two countries will cooperate on planetary defence against dangerous asteroids and comets, according to the White House. Strengthening cooperation in human space flight through an exchange that includes advanced training for an Indian astronaut at NASA‘s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, was among the initiatives launched at the inaugural meeting of the US-India initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET) in Washington on Tuesday, the White House said. the US led the iCET meeting at which space, scientific, defence and commerce officials…

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    • 1 February

      Former PM Manmohan Singh conferred Lifetime Achievement Honour in UK

      Former PM Dr Manmohan Singh was recently conferred a Lifetime Achievement Honour by the India-UK Achievers Honours in London Former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh (File Photo) London: Former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh was recently conferred a Lifetime Achievement Honour by the India-UK Achievers Honours in London for his contribution to economic and political life. The Honour, announced at an awards ceremony last week, will be handed over to Dr Singh in New Delhi by the National Indian Students and Alumni Union (NISAU) UK at a later date. The India-UK Achievers Honours by NISAU UK, in partnership with the British Council in India and the UK’s Department for International Trade (DIT), celebrate the achievements of Indian students who studied at British…

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    • 1 February

      Israel’s envoy to UK defends call to Israeli citizens to carry guns after Jerusalem terror attack

      Responding to criticism of the Israel government’s call to its citizens to carry firearms in order to prevent terrorist attacks, the country’s ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely has asserted that it is only intended for those already with gun licenses. “Israel has very strict guns laws. What the government is doing is allowing people who already have gun licenses, those who are already trained or are part of security forces to carry their guns in order to prevent this horrific kind of incidents,” Tzipi Hotovely told Sky News. The message by the Israel government came after a terrorist attack on a Jewish synagogue in Jerusalem last week in which several people were killed. Following the terrorist attack, Israel sent…

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    • 1 February

      Western allies differ over fighter jets for Ukraine as Russia claims advances

      Ukraine’s defence minister is expected in Paris on Tuesday to meet President Emmanuel Macron amid a debate among Kyiv’s allies over whether to provide fighter jets for its war against Russia, after US President Joe Biden ruled out giving F-16s. Ukraine planned to push for Western fourth-generation fighters like F-16s after securing supplies of main battle tanks last week, an adviser to Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said on Friday. Asked at the White House on Monday if the United States would provide F-16s, Biden told reporters: “No.” But France and Poland appear to be willing to entertain any such request from Ukraine, with Macron telling reporters in The Hague on Monday that “by definition, nothing is excluded” when it comes to military…

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    • 1 February

      France hit by new wave of strikes against Macron’s pension reform

      Striking workers disrupted French refinery deliveries, public transport and schools on Tuesday in a second day of nationwide protests over President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to make people work longer before retirement. © Thomson Reuters Huge crowds marched through cities across France to denounce a reform that raises the retirement age by two years to 64 and which is a test of Macron’s ability to push through change now that he has lost his working majority in parliament. On the rail networks, only one in three high-speed TGV trains were operating and even fewer local and regional trains. Services on the Paris metro were thrown into disarray. Marching behind banners reading “No to the reform” or “We won’t give up,” many said…

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    • 1 February

      Putin’s top army boss boasts thousands of convict conscripts have turned into ‘cannibals’

      Vladimir Putin’s private military chief has boasted that thousands of criminals conscripted to fight for Russia have become “cannibals”. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the infamous Wagner Group, recently appeared in a video boasting the capabilities of his men. He said that, ahead of their deployment to Ukraine, his intense training is turning enlisted convicts into “real cannibals”. A recent video released by the group shows Wagner troops training on a dirt field in an undisclosed location. Prigozhin, standing in the foreground wearing a brown jacket and hat, states the area is a “supplementary training base” for fighters destined for Ukraine. He is heard saying the most experienced fighters receive “additional training in their specialities” at the location. He adds that the nature…

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