Getty Russia’s biggest search engine secretly put blocks in its code to stop images of Vladimir Putin showing up in the results of potentially embarrassing searches, according to a report, with Nazi iconography also allegedly scrubbed out of the results of queries for the Z symbol signifying support for the war in Ukraine. Last week, …
Pope Francis’ trip to the DRC is the first papal visit since John Paul II traveled there in 1985. Pope Francis is visiting the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and South Sudan this week. The 86-year-old leader of the Catholic church will start his trip on Tuesday in the Congolese capital Kinshasa before heading …
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A Ukrainian serviceman fires an assault rifle east of Kharkiv in March 2022. (Fadel Senna / AFP/Getty Images) We are entering the 12th month of a “special military operation” that was supposed to be over in well under 12 days. The Kremlin even told Russian officers to pack dress uniforms and medals for the intended …
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Court sentences 22 people to various prison terms over last year’s unrest which left 21 people dead. A court in Uzbekistan has sentenced 22 people, including a journalist, to various prison terms deadly unrest in the autonomous Karakalpakstan republic last July. Twenty-one people were killed in the protests, which were triggered by plans to curtail …
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Map of Western Sahara Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa. A former Spanish colony, it was annexed by Morocco in 1975. Since then it has been the subject of a long-running territorial dispute between Morocco and its indigenous Sahrawi people, led by the Polisario Front. …
Authorities say 87 rhinos were killed last year compared with 45 in 2021, most of them poached from the country’s largest park. The number of endangered rhinos poached in Namibia reached an all-time high last year after 87 animals were killed compared with 45 in 2021, official government data has shown. Africa’s rhino population has …
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As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 342nd day, we take a look at the main developments. Here is the situation as it stands on Tuesday, January 31, 2023: fighting Russian missiles have killed three people in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, while fighting rages in the eastern Donetsk region where Russia again shelled the …
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Rebel fighters conducted separate attacks on Sunday and Monday, including 15 men killed after a minibus was stopped. At least 28 people, including soldiers and civilians, have been killed in two attacks by armed assailants in Burkina Faso, a regional governor and the army said in separate statements. The army said on Monday that a …
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Next month’s meeting is focused on maritime security and will include exercises to tackle the smuggling of people, drugs and weapons. The Myanmar military, which seized power in a coup two years ago, has been invited to take part in a regional military meeting co-chaired by Thailand and the United States. The five-day ASEAN Defense …
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Two years after Myanmar’s military seized power, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres voiced support Monday for the democratic aspirations of Myanmar’s people and warned that the military’s planned elections amid a crackdown on civilians and political leaders “risk exacerbating instability.” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the secretary-general strongly condemns all forms of violence …
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