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Bangladesh journalist arrested after report on high food prices
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Sri Lanka slashes fuel prices after IMF bailout, says minister
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‘No impunity’ for migrant detention centre fire: Mexico president
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Fiona, Ian retired from UN list of Atlantic hurricane names
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US, UK, Japan, Australia denounce dissolution of Myanmar’s NLD
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Kentucky and West Virginia move to limit transgender healthcare
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Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 400
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START treaty: Russia stops sending nuclear arms info to US
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Family members of jailed Tunisian politicians call for sanctions on Tunisian officials, including the President Kais Saied, after a wave of arrests of opposition figures aje.io/qlf7k4
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South Korea has ruled out lifting a ban on Japanese seafood imports from the area around the Fukushima nuclear plant despite warming relations between Seoul and Tokyo.
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Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim is expected to navigate between deepening economic ties and tackling differences in talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping aje.io/z39bsj
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The man who inspired the film Hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina, has boarded a plane in Qatar bound for Houston after being released from prison in Rwanda aje.io/hqop36
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Surveillance footage of the moment a deadly fire broke out at a migrant detention facility in Mexico appears to show guards walking away without releasing trapped people ⤵️
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Indonesia’s presidential and general elections have been thrown into jeopardy following a surprise ruling to delay voting by a court in Jakarta ⤵️
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Ex-Starbucks CEO has testified before a US Senate committee, responding to allegations the company had engaged in illegal retaliation against employees involved in unionisation efforts aje.io/ii6vei
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The White House has urged China to avoid “overreacting” to a planned stopover in the US by Taiwan’s president, calling the transit “normal” aje.io/znsgs3
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Researchers say up to half of the DNA of people from Swahili areas was from Persia (90%) and India (10%).
🔗: aje.io/p0txrd
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Ukrainians and their supporters are protesting the International Olympic Committee’s recommendation to let Russian and Belarusian athletes compete at international competitions ⤵️
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The EU has removed Pakistan from its “list of high-risk third countries”, a move that is expected to improve conditions for business activity aje.io/xwhoxq
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DEVELOPING: Syrian state media reports that Israel has conducted air attacks on targets in the Damascus area aje.io/ibr3en
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The White House has played down the apparent tensions between US President Joe Biden and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu ⤵️
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Adidas has reversed course 48 hours after asking the US Trademark Office to reject a Black Lives Matter application featuring a design with three parallel stripes aje.io/bcyw8h
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During the holy month of Ramadan, Muslims break their fast with a date.
But do you know where your dates come from?
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UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan appointed his eldest son Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed as crown prince of Abu Dhabi aje.io/69pdtk
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Iran may set a legal deadline for deadlocked talks aimed at restoring its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, FM Amir-Abdollahian says ⤵️
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‘Critical first step’
The US Senate has voted to repeal the legal authorisation for the 2003 war in Iraq aje.io/4smid5
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UN adopted a landmark resolution asking the world’s top court to define the obligations of countries to combat climate change aje.io/84r756
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More foreign troops have arrived in the eastern DR Congo to help the gov't’s fight against the M23 rebel group.
Al Jazeera’s is there and explains what’s going on ⤵️
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Pope Francis has been admitted to hospital with a respiratory infection after experiencing difficulty breathing in recent days aje.io/61475u
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FIFA has removed Indonesia as host after the island of Bali refused to host Israel for tournament draw and said new host to be announced soon aje.io/h8xfh2
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US President Joe Biden has kicked off his second Summit for Democracy by announcing $690m in new funding for democracy programmes across the world aje.io/y8tvl5
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A number of roads have been cut off in Oman after torrential rains caused flash floods, with police advising people to stay away from low-lying areas prone to run-off from river valleys ⤵️
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Colombian rebels known as the National Liberation Army (ELN) has allegedly killed 9 gov't soldiers, in a blow to the gov't efforts to negotiate a truce with armed groups and curb violence in the country ⤵️
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Climate scientists are warning yet again that we are off target on climate action; COP28 can offer an opportunity to change that.
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"We call on all AI labs to immediately pause... the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.”
Billionaire Elon Musk and more than 1,000 tech experts urge halt to further AI developments aje.io/9drki2
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What will the future of AI-powered disinformation look like?
looks at how AI could alter the information landscape.
Join the conversation LIVE on YouTube now: aje.io/2e4tzw
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