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Venezuela sends 11,000 troops to control gang-run prison with pool and zoo
Al Jazeera 21 Sep 2023
Venezuela says it has seized control of a prison from the hands of a powerful gang with an international reach in a major operation involving 11,000 members of its security forces ... list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Former Venezuela spy chief pleads not guilty to US drug charges. list 2 of 3Venezuela using arbitrary detention as ‘tool of repression’.
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Syria's Assad visits China for first time since civil war
Deutsche Welle 21 Sep 2023
Syrian President Bashar Assad is due to meet with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. China has long provided diplomatic support to Assad's regime, and could play a role in reconstructing war-battered Syria ... .
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Rupert Murdoch steps down, says 'companies in robust health, as am I'
India Today 21 Sep 2023
Rupert Murdoch has stepped down as the chairman of Fox Corp and News Corp, ending a more than seven-decade career during which he created a media empire ....
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India suspends visa services in Canada and rift widens over killing of Canadian citizen
Moosejaw Today 21 Sep 2023photo: AP / Sam Mednick
Niger’s ousted Bazoum appeals to West Africa bloc court to free him
Al Jazeera 21 Sep 2023
The coup-toppled president of Niger has appealed to a court of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to free him, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Mohamed Bazoum was overthrown by members of his presidential guard on July 26 and has been detained at home with his wife and child since.
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Poland to stop arming Ukraine over grain deal - Polish PM
RTE 21 Sep 2023
Poland has been one of Ukraine's staunchest supporters after Russia invaded in February 2022, and is one of Kyiv's main weapons suppliers. Much of the weaponry that the US and other countries send to Ukraine passes through Poland, which borders Ukraine to the west ... Poland has been one of Ukraine's main weapons suppliers.
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Italian PM Giorgia Meloni urges UN to wage 'war without mercy' on migrant trafficking
Raw Story 21 Sep 2023
Italy's prime minister on Wednesday urged the United Nations to launch a "global war without mercy" against migrant smugglers, after a surge of arrivals on the island of Lampedusa ... "Can an organization like this which reaffirms in its founding document the faith in the dignity and worth of human beings turn a blind eye to this tragedy?" she asked.
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Man to be executed for 1996 slaying of University of Oklahoma student and Arkansas native
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 21 Sep 2023
Oklahoma is set to execute an inmate Thursday morning for the 1996 slaying of a University of Oklahoma dance student and Arkansas native, a case that went unsolved for years until DNA from the crime scene matched a man serving time for burglary ... 20, 1996, from the parking lot of her Norman apartment complex.
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Despite Push for 'Common Prosperity,' China's Income Gap Widens
Voa News 21 Sep 2023
Beijing's latest annual income data from the National Bureau of Statistics tell a tale of two Chinas, revealing an income gap that is the widest it has been since data collection began in 1985 ... Zhu Chengzhi makes 3,000 yuan a month, or just over $411, as a driver in Kunming, the capital of China's Yunnan province.
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Guinea’s leader defends coups in Africa and rebuffs the West, saying things must change
Times Union 21 Sep 2023
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The recent coups in Africa are attempts by militaries to save their countries from presidents' “broken promises," the head of Guinea’s junta said Thursday as he rebuffed the West for boxing in the continent of more than 1 billion people ... “The wave crossing parts of Africa does not demonstrate favor towards coups," He said.
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Australian Lawmakers Call For Release Of Julian Assange During Talks In US
NDTV 21 Sep 2023
A cross-party delegation of Australian lawmakers that traveled to the United States seeking the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said they had a productive discussion in Washington with the... .
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EU asks Poland for ‘clarifications’ on visa fraud allegations
CNN 21 Sep 2023
Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Polish consulates have been accused of participating in a widespread illegal scheme through which migrants from Africa and Asia were issued Polish visas in exchange for large sums of money ... The ministry said the number of visas distributed to Russian citizens “has decreased significantly in recent years.
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Taiwan’s former top cop wants China talks if voted president
Japan Times 21 Sep 2023photo: Creative Commons / Mike Mozart
'Game of Thrones' author, other writers sue ChatGPT creator over copyrights
Eye Witness News 21 Sep 2023
The Authors Guild accused the California-based company of using their books 'without permission' to train ChatGPT's 'large language models,' algorithms capable of producing human-sounding text responses based on simple queries, according to the lawsuit ... "And at the heart of ...