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Missing Indonesian submarine: rescuers find unidentified object as US joins search
The Guardian 23 Apr 2021
Race to find missing navy vessel as authorities warn oxygen in KRI Nanggala-402 will run out within 24 hours Indonesia’s president has ordered an all-out effort to find a missing submarine in a race against time to save the 53 crew, whose oxygen supply was only expected to last another 24 hours ... .
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China and Russia could win ‘moment of reckoning’ over control of internet unless UK evolves, GCHQ warns
The Independent 23 Apr 2021photo: AP / Russian Defense Ministry Press Service
Russian troops start pulling back from Ukrainian border
Democratic Underground 23 Apr 2021
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV. MOSCOW (AP) Russian troops began pulling back to their permanent bases Friday after a massive buildup that has caused Ukrainian and Western concerns ... Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomed the announcement ... Read more ... .
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Over 120 wounded in east Jerusalem clashes
Straits Times 23 Apr 2021
JERUSALEM (AFP) - More than 100 Palestinians and 20 Israeli police were wounded in overnight clashes in annexed East Jerusalem, medics and the police said on Friday (April 23), as tensions mount over a police ban on gatherings and videos of attacks on youths ... The Israeli police said 20 officers were wounded, three of whom were taken to hospital ... �.
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Germany under fire for ending scheme to take migrants from Greek islands
The National 23 Apr 2021
Read More ... There were 21 families, made up of 48 adults and 55 children ... “The admission of 2,750 men, women and children from the Greek islands has been completed,” said German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer ... Mr Seehofer initially ordered several hundred sick children and unaccompanied youngsters to be taken in last March ... .
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‘No peaceful protests anymore:’ Myanmar youth bear arms to fight junta
La Prensa Latina 23 Apr 2021
“Actually I’m supposed to be chilling with my friends,” 22-year-old Ko Chin Paung told EFE, puffing on a local cigar in a forest close to the Thai border, where dozens of young people have been receiving arms training for weeks ... We’ve been quarreling almost everyday about letting my son go to the training camp.
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Potential new malaria vaccine shows promise in Burkina Faso trial
Metro USA 23 Apr 2021
(Reuters) – A potential new malaria vaccine has proved highly effective in a trial in babies in Africa, pointing to it one day possibly helping reduce the death toll from the mosquito-born disease that kills up to half a million young children a year.
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Thousands gather to wish Chad’s slain president “a deserved rest”
Metro USA 23 Apr 2021
N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Thousands of people gathered at the main square in Chad’s capital N’Djamena on Friday to pay their respects to the late President Idriss Deby, who was killed while leading his troops against a rebel offensive on Monday ... Most of the opposition boycotted the vote ... .
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Iran supplied Yemen with weapons technology, says senior IRGC official
The National 23 Apr 2021
Iran supplied Yemen's Houthi rebels with weapons technology that helped bolster their efforts to attack Saudi Arabia, said Rostam Ghasemi, a senior official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iran's former economic minister. The admission from Mr Ghasemi marks the first time Iran has confirmed weapons aid to Yemen's Houthi rebels ... US ... .
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Honda aims for 100% electric vehicles by 2040, says new CEO
Metro USA 23 Apr 2021
By Eimi Yamamitsu. TOKYO (Reuters) -Honda Motor Co is aiming to increase its ratio of electric vehicles (EVs) and fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) to 100% of all sales by 2040, chief executive Toshihiro Mibe said on Friday ... The target set by the government is “feasible”, Mibe said ... ($1 = 107.9100 yen). (Editing by Jacqueline Wong). .
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Fire at Shanghai electronics factory kills 8
Wtop 23 Apr 2021
The fire broke out at the Shengrui Electronic Technology (Shanghai) Co ... Source .
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Putin says open to meeting Ukrainian leader 'any time'
Anadolu Agency 23 Apr 2021
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he is ready to receive his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in Moscow "any time." ... Putin said "the acting leadership of Ukraine has taken a lot of steps aiming to destroy Russian-Ukrainian relations," however, if Zelensky wants to start restoring them, Russia would welcome this ... .
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EU urges 'flexibility' for seal Swiss deal
Urdu Point 23 Apr 2021
European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen called for "flexibility" as Switzerland's president visited Brussels Friday for talks aimed at breaking the logjam over a long-delayed cooperation agreement ... "In a negotiation, the final metres are the most difficult," European Commission president von der Leyen said at the start of the meeting ... ....
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China: Xinjiang exports to US on rise despite sanctions
Anadolu Agency 23 Apr 2021
Despite Washington’s sanctions and a ban on goods from Xinjiang, exports from China's northwestern province to the US have increased in the first quarter of the current fiscal year, according to data released by China’s customs agency ... The region’s overall exports rose 33.75% ... But imports into the region dropped by 33% ... .
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‘It was a torture chamber’: Ugandans abducted in vicious crackdown
The Guardian 22 Apr 2021
Exclusive. victims and relatives describe suffering as repression intensifies under Yoweri Museveni. Hundreds of ordinary people suspected of supporting opposition politicians in Uganda have been snatched off the streets by security services in the worst wave of repression in the east African country for decades ... “They continued to torture me ... .
