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Chinese rover spots weird cube-shaped feature on the far side of the moon
Digital Trends 05 Dec 2021
China’s Yutu-2 rover, currently exploring the far side of the moon, has spotted a strange cube-shaped object on the moon’s surface. As reported by space.com, the image was shared in a Yutu-2 diary posted by Our Space, a space news channel related to the China National Space Administration (CNSA) ... CNSA/Our Space ... ....
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Russia says a civilian flight diverted to avoid Nato spy plane
Straits Times 05 Dec 2021
MOSCOW • A Russian airliner had to change course to avoid a Nato spy plane that was crossing its path above the Black Sea, the Moscow authorities have said ... Interfax reported that the Aeroflot flight had to drop 500m to keep its distance from the reconnaissance aircraft, which the pilots saw from the cockpit with the naked eye ... CHANGED COURSE ... \ ....
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Mark Cuban buys entire, empty town of Mustang, Texas - Democratic Underground
WorldNews.com 05 Dec 2021
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Former Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole dies at age 98
ABC7 05 Dec 2021
"If unable to reach voters with my right hand, I could always reach out with my left," he wrote in "The Doles ... "For me, the defining period in my life was not running for the highest office in the land. It started years earlier, in a foreign country, where hardly anyone knew my name." ... "'I don't know,' was my comeback.
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Indian Forces Mistakenly Kill at Least 14 Civilians, Officials Say
The Wire Network 05 Dec 2021
At least 14 tribal civilians and one security personnel were mistakenly killed when Indian forces opened indiscriminate fire in the remote northeastern state of Nagaland, government and military officials said Sunday ... Firing began when a truck carrying 30 or more coal-mine laborers were passing the Assam Rifles camp area.
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Epstein’s dark legend wraps Maxwell trial in web of conspiracy theories
The Guardian 05 Dec 2021
Analysis ... Whether prosecutors and defense attorneys are successful in separating criminal conspiracy from the conspiracy theories that run through the entire Epstein-Maxwell narrative may determine how the criminal complaint against the 59-year-old former British socialite is ultimately resolved. ... .
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Myanmar junta chief meets Suu Kyi party stalwart
Straits Times 05 Dec 2021
YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar's junta chief sat down with a prominent senior figure of Ms Aung San Suu Kyi's ousted party on Sunday (Dec 5), the first significant meeting since the February coup ... "Min Aung Hlaing told U Tin Oo that health treatment could be provided if necessary, and his army hospital will help," the junta's information team announced ... �.
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Belgian police use water cannon and tear gas on Covid protesters
Belfast Telegraph 05 Dec 2021
Shouting “Freedom! Freedom!” and carrying banners that said, “United for our freedom, rights and our children”, protesters marched to the European Union headquarters ... primary schools would close for the holiday a week early, and that children must wear masks from the age of six.
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Far-right French presidential hopeful promises ‘reconquest’ at rally
Metro USA 05 Dec 2021
VILLEPINTE, France (Reuters) – French far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour promised on Sunday a “reconquest” against decades of decline at his first political rally, as scuffles with anti-racism protesters broke out on its fringes ... With echoes of Donald Trump’s first campaign for U.S ... PROVOCATIVE STATEMENTS ... .
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The loss of trust in politics in liberal democracies is damaging society
The Observer 05 Dec 2021
Liberal democracy in the UK, and across the western world, is under strain. After the most recent sleaze scandal to have hit Westminster, our polling shows that almost two in three people see politicians as “out for themselves”. In 1944, when this question was first put to the public, only one in three shared this view ... Yet it is also very fragile ... .
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Rio Tinto lithium mine: thousands of protesters block roads across Serbia
The Guardian 05 Dec 2021
Crowds chanted slogans condemning government of Aleksandar Vučić, which backs planned Anglo-Australian $2.4bn mine Thousands of demonstrators blocked major roads across Serbia on Saturday as anger swelled over a government-backed plan to allow mining company Rio Tinto to extract lithium ... .
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Death toll rises after eruption of volcano on Indonesia’s Java island
Belfast Telegraph 05 Dec 2021
The death toll following the eruption of the highest volcano on Indonesia’s most densely populated island of Java has risen to 13, with seven people still missing, officials said as smouldering debris and thick mud hampered search efforts ... Several villages were blanketed with falling ash ... AP/PA Images. / ... Enter email address ... AP/PA Images. / ... Most Read ... .
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France to work with Saudis to resolve crisis with Lebanon
Egypt Independent 05 Dec 2021
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — France’s president and Saudi Arabia’s crown prince held a joint phone call with Lebanon’s prime minister during Emmanuel Macron’s visit to the kingdom on Saturday, in a significant gesture amid an unprecedented crisis between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia ... Riyadh also banned imports from Lebanon ... ___ ... ....
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West condemns Taliban over ‘summary killings’ of ex-soldiers and police
The Observer 05 Dec 2021
The US has led a group of western nations and allies in condemnation of the Taliban over the “summary killings” of former members of the Afghan security forces reported by rights groups, demanding quick investigations ... ‘We will start again’. Afghan female MPs fight on from parliament in exile. Read more ... Read more ... Reuse this content. .
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Several wounded as Myanmar security forces ram anti-coup protest
Al Jazeera 05 Dec 2021
Several people have been wounded after Myanmar security forces rammed a car into an anti-coup protest in Yangon, witnesses and local media reported ... Anti-military protests have continued despite the killing of more than 1,300 people since the coup ... Dozens of others were injured, witnesses told the Reuters news agency ... .