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      22 January

      India blocks documentary probing Modi’s role in 2002 Gujarat riots

      India has blocked the airing of a BBC documentary which questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership during the 2002 Gujarat riots, saying that even sharing of any clips via social media is barred. Directions to block the clips from being shared have been issued using emergency powers available to the government under the country’s information technology rules, said Kanchan Gupta, an adviser to the government, on his Twitter handle on Saturday. While the BBC has not aired the documentary in India, the video was uploaded on some YouTube channels, Gupta said. The government has issued orders to Twitter to block over 50 tweets linking to the video of the documentary and YouTube has been instructed to block any uploads of the video, Gupta said. Both YouTube and…

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    • 22 January

      Huge crowds in Israel again protest Netanyahu’s legal changes

      More than 100,000 people rally in Tel Aviv for a third week to protest against legal changes that could weaken the Israeli Supreme Court. Tens of thousands of Israelis have gathered in Tel Aviv to protest plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s new government to overhaul the country’s judicial system and weaken the Supreme Court. Israeli media, citing police, said more than 100,000 people joined Saturday’s protests. The rally followed another demonstration last week that also drew tens of thousands in an early challenge to Netanyahu and his ultranationalist and ultraorthodox government — the most right-wing in Israeli history. It says its judicial changes are needed to curb overreach by activist judges, but the plans have drawn fierce opposition from groups, including lawyers, and raised…

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    • 22 January

      Burkina Faso demands departure of French troops: Report

      Military-ruled Burkina Faso suspends accord with France, orders troops to leave within a month, reports state media. Burkina Faso’s military government has ordered French troops stationed in the West African country to leave within a month. The decision, announced by the official Agence d’Information du Burkina (AIB) on Saturday, is the latest sign of deteriorating relations between France and its former colony since a second military coup in September of last year. The AIB said the military government on Wednesday suspended a 2018 military accord that allowed the presence of French troops in the country. There was no immediate comment from Paris. A source close to the Burkinabe military told the AFP news agency that Ouagadougou was not severing relations with France…

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    • 22 January

      Turkish anger after Quran burning, Kurd protests in Sweden

      Turkey expresses outrage after far-right politician burns a Quran during an Islamophobic protest in front of its embassy in Stockholm. Turkey denounced Sweden after protests in front of its embassy in Stockholm including the burning of a Quran by far-right supporters and a separate demonstration by Kurdish activists. Ankara said on Saturday it was cancelling a visit by Sweden’s defence minister aimed at overcoming Turkey’s objections to its NATO membership. Sweden needs Turkey’s backing to gain entry to the military alliance as fears in Europe grow after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Quran burning was carried out by Rasmus Paludan, leader of Danish far-right political party Hard Line. In April last year, Paludan’s announcement of a Quran burning “tour” during the…

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    • 22 January

      New search of Biden’s home turns up more classified documents

      Officials from the Department of Justice find six more classified documents during 13-hour search of Joe Biden’s Delaware home. Officials in the United States have discovered six more classified documents during a new search of President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, according to a lawyer. Some of the classified documents and “surrounding materials” dated from Biden’s tenure in the US Senate, where he represented Delaware from 1973 to 2009, the president’s personal lawyer, Bob Bauer, said in a statement on Saturday. Other documents were from his tenure as vice president in the Obama administration, from 2009 through 2017, Bauer said. The level of classification and whether they remained classified was not immediately clear. The search on Friday was carried…

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    • 22 January

      UN envoy says ‘progress’ made on Afghan women’s rights

      Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, who held talks with Taliban, tells Al Jazeera some progress in the health sector made but much remains to be done. A UN delegation, which held talks with senior Taliban officials in Afghanistan, has made headway on women’s rights, the UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told Al Jazeera on Saturday, cautioning that much remains to be achieved. The high-level meeting earlier this week comes amid widespread criticism of the governing Taliban for banning women from universities and NGOs last month. Millions of high school girls have already been confined to their homes as schools remain shut. The Taliban has gone back on its promises of women’s rights and media freedom since they stormed to power in August 2021…

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    • 22 January

      Greece expanding border wall, calls for EU help on migration

      Greece prevented around 260,000 migrants from entering illegally in 2022 and arrested 1,500 traffickers Feres, Greece: Greece prevented around 260,000 migrants from entering illegally in 2022 and arrested 1,500 traffickers, an official said Saturday. Citizens’ Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos was speaking to ambassadors from other European Union countries plus Switzerland and the United Kingdom as he guided them to a still expanding border wall in the country’s northeast. Theodorikakos emphasized to the 28 envoys that Greece’s border is also the EU’s external border. “The task (of protecting the border) needs the support … of European public opinion, the European Union itself and its constituent members individually,” Theodorikakos said. “It is our steadfast position that member states of first reception cannot be (the migrants’)…

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    • 22 January

      Nikki Haley accused of plotting a bid to become Trump’s VP

      Indian American Republican who is eyeing a bid for the White House in 2024, has been accused of plotting to become former President Donald Trump’s vice-president Washington: Nikki Haley, the Indian American Republican who is eyeing a bid for the White House in 2024, has been accused of plotting to become former President Donald Trump’s vice-president. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who made this accusation in his memoir, goes on to claim in the book that Haley’s co-conspirators were former President Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, who both held senior position in the White House at the time. Haley dismissed the charge as a stunt to sell the memoir. Pompeo does not specify if Haley was supposed to…

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    • 22 January

      Turkey condemns Sweden protests, cancels ministers’ meeting

      Turkey on Saturday canceled a planned visit by Sweden’s defense minister in response to anti-Turkish protests that increased tension between the two countries as Sweden seeks Turkey’s approval to join NATO. A far-right activist from Denmark received permission from police to stage a protest outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm where he burned the Quran, Islam’s holy book. A separate pro-Kurdish demonstration was planned later Saturday in the Swedish capital. In response, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said the scheduled Jan. 27 visit by his Swedish counterpart Pål Jonson no longer held “any importance or point,” because Sweden continued to allow “disgusting” demonstrations against Turkey. Jonson tweeted that he had met Akar on Friday in Ramstein, Germany, where they “agreed to postpone” the meeting in Ankara.…

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    • 22 January

      Tens of thousands of Israelis protest against Netanyahu justice plans

      TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Israelis joined demonstrations on Saturday against judicial reform plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government that protesters say will threaten democratic checks and balances on ministers by the courts. The plans, which the government says are needed to curb overreach by activist judges, have drawn fierce opposition from groups including lawyers, and raised concerns among business leaders, widening already deep political divisions in Israeli society. Netanyahu has dismissed the protests, now in their third week, as a refusal by leftist opponents to accept the results of last November’s election, which produced one of the most right-wing © Thomson Reuters The protesters say the future of Israeli democracy is at stake if the…

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