Category: Foreign Affairs
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Bomb blast kills Afghanistan journalist
Officials on Thursday confirmed that one local journalist Ilyas Dayee was killed by a bomb explosion in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province. Dayee was killed after a small bomb attached to his vehicle went off in the provincial capital Lashkargah city, the provincial governor’s spokesman and a local politician told dpa. His brother and two civilians…
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Burkina Faso loses seven soldiers in fresh terror attack
Seven soldiers were killed and others wounded or missing after their patrol was ambushed in northern Burkina Faso, the centre of a five-year-old jihadist insurgency, security sources said on Thursday. The troops were attacked on Wednesday between Tin Akoff and Beldiabe in Oudalan province, which borders Mali and Niger, one source said. “The provisional toll…
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‘One election’ won’t reverse EU-US shift: EU chief
An EU Chief, Von der Leyen has offered warm congratulations to US president-elect Jose Biden and his vice-president-elect, Kamala Harris. Von der Leyen emphasised that the Western alliance built on US-European cooperation still endured, “based on shared values and history”. “It is time for a new trans-Atlantic agenda,” she told EU ambassadors in a videolink…
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Despite Trump’s refusal to concede defeat, Biden commences transition
US President-elect Joe Biden took the first steps Sunday towards moving into the White House in 73 days, as Donald Trump again refused to admit defeat and tried to sow doubt about the election results. With congratulations pouring in from world leaders and supporters nursing hangovers after a night of celebrations, Biden and Vice President-elect…
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US Election: Netanyahu salutes Biden, calls him great friend
Israeli Prime Minister and close Donald Trump ally Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Joe Biden on his election victory early Sunday, calling the United States president-elect “a great friend of Israel”. “I look forward to working with both of you to further strengthen the special alliance between the US and Israel,” Netanyahu wrote on Twitter, referring to…
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UN to hold special General Assembly session over COVID-19
The UN General Assembly moved Thursday to hold a special session focused on international coordination in response to the coronavirus pandemic from December 3-4 in New York. Discussed since June, the meeting is intended to bring together heads of state and government according to a resolution adopted by 150 of the 193 General Assembly members.…
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Kosovo President quits, set to face war crimes prosecution
Kosovo President Hashim Thaci resigned Thursday to face trial in a war crimes court in The Hague, a dramatic downfall for a politician who has dominated the former Serbian province for over a decade. The 52-year-old said he would step down to appear before the court after it confirmed an indictment against him dating back…
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US election: Biden floats transition website
Votes are still being counted across the United States but Democrat Joe Biden has launched a transition website “so that the Biden-Harris Administration can hit the ground running on Day One”. On the website, buildbackbetter.com, is the short statement, “The American people will determine who will serve as the next President of the United States,…
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US election: Dead candidate, Andahl, wins legislative seat
A candidate who died of coronavirus in October, David Andahl, has won a legislative seat in North Dakota. New York Times and Washington Post reported that Andahl and Dave Nehring were elected to represent North Dakota’s eighth state house district. Official results showed that Andahl won 36 per cent of the votes cast while Nehring…
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US Election: Trump vows to stop vote counting at Supreme Court
Donald Trump claimed the election was a ‘fraud on the American people’ and that he was going to the Supreme Court to stop all vote counting immediately in a White House statement at 2.30am. He effectively made his own declaration of saying: ‘Frankly we did win this election.’ He set the stage for a titanic…