Malawi Re-introduces COVID-19 Restrictions as Cases Surge

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https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2020–12/Buses car­ry­ing Malaw­ian migrant work­ers from South Africa arrive at Mwan­za Bor­der in south­ern Malawi– Pho­tos court­sy of Pasqually Zulu, Mwan­za Bor­der Immigration.jpg?imwidth=800BLANTYRE, MALAWI — Malawi has closed its bor­ders after con­firmed cas­es of COVID-19 jumped 75 per­cent in the past two weeks.  Malawi author­i­ties attribute the surge to relaxed pre­ven­tive mea­sures and increased cross-border…

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The Infodemic: Social Media Posts Spread Misinformation About COVID-19 Deaths

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https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2020–11/reuters_el_paso_covid_deaths_23Nov20.JPG?imwidth=800 Polygraph.info is a fact-check­­ing web­site pro­duced by Voice of Amer­i­ca (VOA)​ and Radio Free Europe/Radio Lib­er­ty. The web­site serves as a resource for ver­i­fy­ing the increas­ing vol­ume of dis­in­for­ma­tion and mis­in­for­ma­tion being dis­trib­uted and shared glob­al­ly. A sim­i­lar web­site in the Russ­ian language

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Ships Positioned on Somalia’s Coast for US Troops’ Drawdown

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https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2020–12/makkin.jpg?imwidth=800The Pen­ta­gon has sent sev­er­al naval ves­sels and a marine expe­di­tionary unit to the coast of Soma­lia to sup­port an oper­a­tion repo­si­tion­ing hun­dreds of U.S. troops to bases else­where in East Africa.  The USS Makin Island Amphibi­ous Ready Group and

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Number of journalists killed for their reporting doubled in 2020

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Decem­ber 22, 2020 This sto­ry, plus Con­gress expands pay­roll assis­tance to local news out­lets, News­max issues a clar­i­fi­ca­tion about claims that a vot­ing soft­ware com­pa­ny manip­u­lat­ed elec­tion results, and more, all in today’s media head­lines. Top Sto­ries­Me­dia BusinessPress &

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Navy Warship’s Secret Mission Off West Africa Aims to Help Punish Venezuela

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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/12/18/us/politics/00dc-military1/00dc-military1-moth.jpgAdver­tise­ment Con­tin­ue read­ing the main sto­ry Sup­port­ed by Con­tin­ue read­ing the main sto­ryNavy Warship’s Secret Mis­sion Off West Africa Aims to Help Pun­ish Venezuela The tale of the cruis­er San Jac­in­to under­scores the Trump administration’s ani­mus toward Venezuela and how the post­elec­tion purge of

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A dangerous backtrack on the US-Mexico security relationship

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https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/mexico_amlo_002.jpg?w=270 On Tues­day, the Mex­i­can Con­gress passed a new law severe­ly restrict­ing the oper­a­tions of for­eign law enforce­ment agents in Mex­i­co. It is clear­ly direct­ed at the Unit­ed States in retal­i­a­tion for the U.S. arrest of Mexico’s for­mer Sec­re­tary of Defense Sal­vador Cien­fue­gos on drug traf­fick­ing and cor­rup­tion charges at the Los Ange­les air­port in…

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