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United Airlines Completes 777–200 Polaris Retrofits

All Sides, BBC News, Brookings Institution, Miscellaneous FeedBy External SourceDecember 5, 2020Leave a comment

Fly­ing the 777–200 on a long­haul inter­na­tion­al Unit­ed Air­lines flight? You’ll no longer have to check the seat map to see which type of con­fig­u­ra­tion you can expect in busi­ness class. Unit­ed has com­plet­ed its Polaris retro­fit process and

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DRC: President Tshisekedi expected to quit ‘Kabila coalition’

Africa News - YoutubeBy External SourceDecember 5, 2020Leave a comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fysUYiz0i0U

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DRC: At least 8 killed in Goma violence

Africa News - YoutubeBy External SourceDecember 5, 2020Leave a comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi8O2IacnMk

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Egyptian Rights Group Head Hopes Release Will Help Other Prisoners

VOA News AfricaBy External SourceDecember 5, 2020Leave a comment

CAIRO, EGYPT —  The head of a lead­ing Egypt­ian human rights group who was held for two weeks on ter­ror­ism charges said Sat­ur­day he hoped the cam­paign to secure his release would help oth­ers still jailed on sim­i­lar Allegations.

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Mali’s interim legislature elect Malick Diaw as president

Africa News - YoutubeBy External SourceDecember 5, 2020Leave a comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6rMbVBZQNo

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US Decision to Withdraw Troops Dismays Some Somalis

VOA News AfricaBy External SourceDecember 5, 2020Leave a comment

ADDIS ABABA — Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s deci­sion to pull U.S. troops out of Soma­lia in the wan­ing days of his pres­i­den­cy trig­gered dis­may on Sat­ur­day from some Soma­lis, who appealed to the incom­ing U.S. pres­i­dent to reverse the deci­sion. “The

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Biden Officially Secures Enough Electors to Become President

VOA News AfricaBy External SourceDecember 4, 2020Leave a comment

Cal­i­for­nia cer­ti­fied its pres­i­den­tial elec­tion Fri­day and appoint­ed 55 elec­tors pledged to vote for Demo­c­rat Joe Biden, offi­cial­ly hand­ing him the Elec­toral Col­lege major­i­ty need­ed to win the White House. Sec­re­tary of State Alex Padil­la’s for­mal approval of Biden’s win

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Pentagon Installs 2 Trump Allies on Defense Advisory Board

VOA News AfricaBy External SourceDecember 4, 2020Leave a comment

WASHINGTON — The Pen­ta­gon has appoint­ed two close allies of Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, Corey Lewandows­ki and David Bossie, to a defense advi­so­ry board, con­tin­u­ing a post-elec­tion purge in the final weeks of the admin­is­tra­tion. The act­ing sec­re­tary of defense, Christopher

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Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis: Cutting through the information blackout

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share­Sharen­o­close­Share pagelinkCopy link­About sharingim­age copy­rightAF­PThe BBC has man­aged to speak to some peo­ple inside Mekelle, the cap­i­tal of the Ethiopi­a’s con­flict-hit region of Tigray, for the first time since Prime Min­is­ter Abiy Ahmed declared

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Federal Judge Rules US Must Accept New DACA Applications

VOA News AfricaBy External SourceDecember 4, 2020Leave a comment

The Trump admin­is­tra­tion must begin accept­ing new appli­ca­tions for the Deferred Action for Child­hood Arrivals pro­gram, a fed­er­al judge ruled Friday.U.S. Dis­trict Judge Nicholas Garau­fis found that a memo issued in July by Act­ing Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­ri­ty Sec­re­tary Chad

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