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      29 January

      Russia steps up attack on Ukrainian towns, Poland pledges more tanks

      Russia has stepped up its attack on Ukrainian towns in the east and the northeast, days after the West pledged more tanks in what Volodymyr Zelenskyy described as a “tank coalition”. After Germany and the US, Poland has promised an additional 60 tanks on top of 14 German-made Leopard 2 tanks it had already pledged. A total of 321 heavy tanks have been promised to Ukraine by several countries, Reuters reported.  But Ukraine President Zelenskyy has called the situation at the front “extremely acute”, particularly in the eastern Donetsk region where Russia is stepping up its offensive. Major battles are underway for Vuhledar, to the southwest of Donetsk, and Bakhmut, to the northeast.  Source

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    • 29 January

      Tommy Robinson is spotted at Muslim protest at London’s Swedish embassy over Koran-burning stunts

      Tommy Robinson has appeared at a Muslim protest outside the Swedish embassy in London, which was organised following a series of Koran-burning stunts by a far-right activist last week.  The English Defence League founder, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was flanked by police officers and other observers as he spoke to a handful of protestors among the large crowd standing behind metal barriers, on Saturday. Hundreds turned out for the protest, which was prompted by far-right activist Rasmus Paludan burning a Koran outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm, last Saturday, after being granted permission by authorities.  English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson was spotted at a protest outside the Swedish embassy in London on Saturday afternoon© Provided by Daily Mail The convicted extremist vowed to continue…

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    • 29 January

      Israeli army reinforces in West Bank after synagogue shooting

      The Israeli military was sending more troops into the occupied West Bank, a day after a Palestinian gunman shot dead seven people on the outskirts of Jerusalem and another shooting attack in the city on Saturday wounded two people. The attacks took place towards the end of a month of growing confrontation and follow an Israeli raid in the West Bank that killed nine Palestinians, including seven gunmen, and cross-border fire between Israel and Gaza. Israeli Border police officers stand at the house of Palestinian gunman Khaire Alkam in A-Tur in East Jerusalem© Thomson Reuters Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new cabinet, which includes hardline nationalist parties that have called for stronger action against Palestinians and oppose Palestinian statehood, was due to…

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    • 28 January

      Zelenskyy says Olympics chief should visit Ukraine front line

      Ukrainian president invited the IOC chief to visit Bakhmut in spat over ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attend a news conference with European Council President Charles Michel on January 19, 2023 [File: Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo] Published On 28 Jan 2023 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has invited International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach to visit the front-line city of Bakhmut, where Ukraine’s soldiers are engaged in vicious battle with Russian forces. Zelenskyy extended the provocative invitation on Friday after the Olympic committee said a “pathway” should be explored to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to take part in the 2024 Paris Games. Russia and its ally Belarus have been excluded from competing in most Olympic sports since the…

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    • 28 January

      Maldives ruling party holds high-stakes presidential primary

      Democracy icon Mohamed Nasheed’s political future in balance as ruling party voters head to the polls. Supporters of former President Mohamed Nasheed gather at a campaign rally in Male on January 26, 2023 [Fayaz Moosa/ Mihaaru via Al Jazeera] By Mohamed Junayd and Zaheena Rasheed Published On 28 Jan 2023 Male, Maldives – The Maldives’s governing party is set to hold a primary that is pitting incumbent President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih against his former ally and the nation’s first democratically-elected leader, Mohamed Nasheed. The closely fought election on Saturday follows a bitter campaign, with Nasheed framing the poll as a choice between autocracy and democracy, and accusing Solih of vote rigging and bribery — allegations he denies. Enmity between the two has raised concerns…

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    • 28 January

      Russian ‘megalomania’ in Ukraine war cited at death camp memorial

      The Auschwitz camp memorial director equated Nazi crimes of World War II with Russian forces now in Ukraine. A sign reading “Stop!” in German and Polish is seen at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland, in 2018 [File: Kacper Pempel/Reuters] Published On 28 Jan 2023 The director of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp memorial has compared the recent killing of people in Ukraine by Russian forces with similar suffering experienced during World War II. Marking the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the camp, set up on Polish soil by Nazi Germany and where more than 1.1 million people — most of them Jews — perished in gas chambers and from starvation, cold and disease, the…

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    • 28 January

      Jan 8 investigation targets nephew of Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro

      Leonardo Rodrigues de Jesus is the first member of Bolsonaro’s family to be probed in relation to the January 8 attack. Security forces attempt to disperse supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro as they storm government buildings in Brasilia on January 8, 2023 [File: Adriano Machado/Reuters] Published On 28 Jan 2023 Federal police in Brazil have announced that the nephew of former President Jair Bolsonaro is under investigation in connection with the January 8 attack on government buildings in Brasilia. Leonardo Rodrigues de Jesus, also known as Leo Índio, is the first member of Bolsonaro’s family to be publicly targeted in the investigations. His home was searched in a series of raids on Friday, part of an ongoing inquiry into the perpetrators behind the…

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    • 28 January

      North Korea condemns US sending battle tanks to Ukraine

      Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of North Korea’s leader, accused the US of fighting a ‘proxy war’ against Russia. Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un, speaking at the National Emergency Prevention General Meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, in August 2022 [File: Korean Central News Agency via KNS/AFP] Published On 28 Jan 2023 The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has condemned the decision by the United States to supply Ukraine with advanced battle tanks to help fight Russian forces, accusing Washington of crossing a “red line” and escalating a “proxy war” designed to destroy Moscow. The comments on Friday by Kim Yo Jong underscored North Korea’s deepening alignment with Russia over the war in Ukraine…

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    • 28 January

      US authorities release police video in death of Tyre Nichols

      Memphis police chief says the video, which shows police beating a Black motorist, depicts ‘acts that defy humanity’. The city of Memphis has released shocking video of the violent encounter between Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, and the five police officers charged with murder in his beating death earlier this month in the United States. The footage from police body-worn and dashboard cameras was posted on Friday evening on the city’s Vimeo site, a day after the officers were charged with second-degree murder, assault, kidnapping, official misconduct and oppression. The footage shows the officers, all Black, beating the FedEx worker for three minutes in an assault that the Nichols family’s legal team likened to the infamous 1991 police beating of Los Angeles…

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    • 28 January

      pinion: China’s big problem

      China’s shrinking population will spur a trend that already concerns demographers: a rapidly aging society. By Feng Wang Hyderabad: Throughout much of recorded human history, China has boasted the largest population in the world – and until recently, by some margin. So news that the Chinese population is now in decline, and will sometime later this year be surpassed by that of India, is big news even if long predicted. As a scholar of Chinese demographics, I know that the figures released by Chinese government on January 17, showing that for the first time in six decades, deaths in the previous year outnumbered births is no mere blip. While that previous year of shrinkage, 1961 – during the Great Leap Forward economic failure,…

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