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Taliban leader pleads for help in first address
Russia Today 28 Nov 2021
The leader of the Taliban has delivered his first televised address since the group took power in Afghanistan in mid-August. He vowed not to interfere in other countries, and asked for international aid ... Read more Taliban reveals agenda of upcoming talks with Washington ... Think your friends would be interested? Share this story! .
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Fashion designer Virgil Abloh dies of cancer at 41
The Gleaner 29 Nov 2021photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis
‘More money than God:’ Chinese titan lavished Hunter Biden with 3-carat gem, offer of $30 million
New York Post 28 Nov 2021
The Biden family offered their services to a huge, Chinese-government-linked energy consortium to expand its business around the world. How do we know? Because of hundreds of emails documenting the deal found on Hunter Biden’s laptop, left in a Delaware repair shop in April 2019 ... Gilliar had an idea who could help. The Biden family ... . see also ... report.
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Guardian accused of sitting on bombshell story about Assange
Russia Today 28 Nov 2021
The Guardian newspaper reportedly knew about alleged spying on Julian Assange by a CIA-connected security firm long before it became public knowledge – and pumped the company for information instead of reporting the espionage ... It cited communications between the security firm UC Global and The Guardian ... .
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Dead dolphins, extortion, bullets in Italy's mafia 'maxi-trial'
Straits Times 28 Nov 2021
LAMEZIA TERME, ITALY (AFP) - A dead dolphin on a doormat and windows smashed with sledgehammers. Weapons stored in cemetery chapels. Bribes to judges for acquittals, and bogus medical certificates letting convicted killers dodge prison ... Payoffs and public servants ... They are accused of procuring weapons, gathering votes or delivering messages ... PHOTO. AFP.
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Djokovic 'probably won't' play Aus Open, says player's father
Supersport 28 Nov 2021
Novak Djokovic "probably won't" play the Australian Open in January over mandatory Covid vaccination rules, the world No 1's father said on Sunday, likening the restrictions to "blackmail".","content"."Novak Djokovic ...
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Stowaway found in landing gear of plane after flight from Guatemala to Miami
The Hill 28 Nov 2021
Officials discovered a 26-year-old man inside an aircraft’s landing gear compartment after a flight from Guatemala landed in Miami on Saturday morning, NBC News reported. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a statement that the man was being evaluated at a hospital after he was discovered on the flight ... "Do not come." ... ....
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Milan stunned by Sassuolo to slip to second successive league loss
Reuters 28 Nov 2021
MILAN, Nov 28 (Reuters) - AC Milan slipped to their second successive Serie A defeat when Sassuolo stunned their opponents in the San Siro after coming from behind to earn a 3-1 victory on Sunday ... Register ... Romagnoli's red card in the 77th minute effectively ended Milan's hopes of getting anything from the match ... Register ... Our Standards ... ....
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Bee aware: do you know what is in that cheap jar of honey?
The Observer 28 Nov 2021
British beekeepers are calling for a requirement on supermarkets and other retailers to label cheap honey imports from China and other nations with the country of origin after claims that part of the global supply is bulked out with sugar syrup ... Supermarket own-label honey from China can be bought for as little as 69p a jar ... Photograph ... Read more ... .
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New Zealand Politician Bikes to Hospital to Give Birth
Democratic Underground 28 Nov 2021
Oh, those down to earth women politicians from New Zealand!. snip. Pregnant New Zealand politician, 41, goes into labour so hops on her BIKE to hospital to give birth ... snip ... Note ... .
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The British Army is becoming an American auxiliary force
The Spectator 27 Nov 2021
What are the armed forces for? This is the question that hangs over every defence review, and one that recent governments have been averse to answering. The problem is this. since the end of the Cold War, defence has gradually slipped further and further down the political priority list ... But we might not like the answer ... .
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French presidential contender caught flipping off hater
Russia Today 28 Nov 2021
Far-right figure Eric Zemmour, touted as a potential president of France, was caught showing the middle finger to an angry woman who accosted him in Marseille. A minister later asked young people not to repeat the obscene gesture ... He was met by a group of protesters that jeered and booed as the media personality was leaving the train station.
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Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking trial finally to begin in earnest
The Observer 28 Nov 2021
Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial is scheduled to start in earnest in federal court in Manhattan on Monday with opening statements about the eagerly awaited case. Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking trial ‘over-hyped’, brother insists. Read more ... Epstein’s sometime girlfriend is also accused of participating in his sexual abuse of teenage girls.
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Travel curbs tightened across the world amid new Covid variant fears
Belfast Telegraph 28 Nov 2021
Australian officials are racing to carry out further tests on passengers arriving from southern Africa who tested positive for Covid-19 to determine if they are carrying the Omicron variant, as nations around the world tightened controls against the worrying new strain ... The Omicron variant was first detected in South Africa (Denis Farrell/AP) ... / ... / ... .
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Kyrgyzstan holds parliamentary vote amid rising tensions
Al Jazeera 28 Nov 2021
Kyrgyzstan is voting in parliamentary polls as tensions simmer after claims of a plot to unseat populist President Sadyr Japarov, who rose to power in post-vote unrest last year ... But Zamirbekov worried that low turnout would benefit rich parties “without any vision” for the mountainous, land-locked country of 6.5 million ... .