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Travelers With Negative COVID-19 Test Potentially Freer in UK than British

Miscellaneous FeedBy External SourceNovember 29, 2020Leave a comment

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Viewpoint: How Ethiopia is undermining the African Union

BBC NewsBy External SourceNovember 28, 2020Leave a comment

The coun­try has rebuffed African efforts to find a nego­ti­at­ed set­tle­ment to the Tigray conflict.

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Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis: What does it mean for the east Africa region?

BBC NewsBy External SourceNovember 28, 2020Leave a comment

BBC cor­re­spon­dents across the east Africa region explain the impact for Ethiopia and its neighbours.

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Kauai Will Require Quarantine: Reasonable, Yet Still Unfair

Miscellaneous FeedBy External SourceNovember 28, 2020Leave a comment

Start­ing on Decem­ber 2, 2020, the island of Kauai will require all arriv­ing pas­sen­gers to quar­an­tine for 14 days, even with a neg­a­tive COVID-19 test. The pol­i­cy is rea­son­able, yet still unfair in that it was enact­ed with such

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Hong Kong’s Leader Says She Relies On ‘Piles Of Cash’ Because Of U.S. Sanctions

Journalism.orgBy External SourceNovember 28, 2020Leave a comment

Hong Kong’s chief exec­u­tive, Car­rie Lam, said in an inter­view Sat­ur­day that she has no bank account and relies upon “piles of cash” for her finances because of U.S. sanc­tions against the city.  Lam told the Hong

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Ethiopia Claims Victory in Tigray Conflict After Shelling Restive Region’s Capital

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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia claimed vic­to­ry in its con­flict with the restive region of Tigray on Sat­ur­day, after a day­long series of artillery strikes against the region­al cap­i­tal, a city of half a mil­lion people.With com­mu­ni­ca­tions shut off, there

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Vows Revenge Over Slain Scientist

Journalism.orgBy External SourceNovember 28, 2020Leave a comment

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader on Sat­ur­day demand­ed the “defin­i­tive pun­ish­ment” of those behind the killing of a sci­en­tist who led Tehran’s dis­band­ed mil­i­tary nuclear pro­gram, as the Islam­ic Repub­lic blamed Israel for a slay­ing that has

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Man Grills Steak In Delta Air Lines Lavatory…Plus A Personal Confession

Miscellaneous FeedBy External SourceNovember 28, 2020Leave a comment

Whether real or not, cook­ing a steak over an open flame in an air­craft lava­to­ry is no laugh­ing mat­ter. That said, the thought has cer­tain­ly crossed my mind too… Man Grills Steak In Delta Lava­to­ry In a now-delet­ed video

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Second-Largest Australian State Goes 28 Days Without Any New Infections

Journalism.orgBy External SourceNovember 28, 2020Leave a comment

SYDNEY (Reuters) ― Australia’s sec­ond-largest state, Vic­to­ria, once the country’s COVID-19 hotspot, said on Fri­day it has gone 28 days with­out detect­ing any new infec­tions, a bench­mark wide­ly cit­ed as elim­i­nat­ing the virus from the com­mu­ni­ty. The

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Uganda Police Arrest Opposition Figure, Setting Off Deadly Protests

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KAMPALA, Ugan­da — The police in Ugan­da said three peo­ple died and 38 were injured in protests that broke out on Wednes­day in Uganda’s cap­i­tal after offi­cers arrest­ed Bobi Wine, a musi­cian and oppo­si­tion politi­cian seek­ing the pres­i­den­cy in next

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