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Why are tensions increasing between China and Taiwan?
China’s military flew tens of fighter aircraft as many as 149 times toward Taiwan in recent days, in what is the most recent attempt at putting pressure on the self-governing island by displaying Beijing’s military might. Even though all flights were in international airspace, they prompted Taiwanese defense forces to scramble jets in response and raised fears that any miscalculation…
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EU summit: No firm timeline for Western Balkans accession
EU and Western Balkan leaders have wrapped up a one-day summit in Brdo Castle in Slovenia with promises for greater integration but didn’t commit to a solid timeline for the six countries to join the 27-member bloc. “The Western Balkans are part of the same Europe as the European Union. The EU is not complete without them,” EU Commission President…
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Ethiopia’s PM Abiy names new cabinet +++ UN warns of ‘human catastrophe’ in Tigray +++ Amnesty report accuses Namibia of neglecting Indigenous San people SOURCE: DW News
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How the US invasion changed Afghanistan
On October 7, 2001, the US invaded Afghanistan to avenge the al-Qaida-orchestrated September 11 terrorist attacks. The primary aim of the US invasion was to hunt down Osama bin Laden and punish the Taliban for providing safe haven to al-Qaida leaders. It took little effort on part of the US to dismantle the Taliban regime. Bin Laden, however, managed to…
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Facebook under fire — will lawmakers now get tough on Big Tech?
The world’s largest social media company is having a rough week. First, a cascade of technical errors brought down Facebook’s services and made it impossible for billions of users to communicate with each other. A day later, a former employee presented US lawmakers with tens of thousands of pages of internal researchthat she had copied while working at the company.…
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New sexual misconduct allegations in women’s football
Footballers in Australia and Venezuela have revealed harassment and sexual abuse within their respective countries. The new claims comes in the wake of a sexual misconduct case in the US. SOURCE: DW News
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Why Cuban baseball players fled their country
The Florida Marlins baseball stadium in Miami is located a mere 150 nautical miles (278 kilometers) from Cuba. Many young Cubans dream about playing for teams in the US top division, Major League Baseball (MLB). Baseball, after all, is Cuba’s number one national sport. A number of leading MLB players in the US today grew up playing the sport on…
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Impact of Facebook outage in Africa +++ The Gambia registers 30 presidential aspirants +++ Nigeria seeks to cash in on avocado farming SOURCE: DW News
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WhatsApp and Facebook outage sparks confusion in Africa
What would our life be without social media? Many users worldwide got a glimpse of how that would play out when Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms crashed on Monday for about six hours. A massive global outage plunged many services, businesses and the people who rely on them into chaos. It also fueled lively debates on the reasons…
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Karim Adeyemi: Germany’s future star on verge of big move
After making his German national team debut and impressing in Austria, Munich-born Adeyemi looks set to be the next Red Bull Salzburg talent to secure a big move elsewhere, with boyhood club Bayern a likely destination. SOURCE: DW News
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Vietnam’s COVID woes trigger supply chain issues for EU firms
Optimism has been returning for European investors after Vietnam’s communist government began rolling back lockdown measures in mid-September, and the majority of restrictions in the southern business hub Ho Chi Minh City were lifted on October 1. Last year, Vietnam was heralded as one of the few global success stories amid the pandemic. The country of 96 million people recorded…
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Pandora Papers: How will the revelations impact Pakistan’s politics?
Several people surrounding Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, including ministers and family members, have been named in the Pandora Papers leaks. The papers, which were shared by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), reveal that many of the country’s powerful military generals, businessmen and media owners have transferred millions of dollars through offshore companies. More than 700 prominent Pakistanis…
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Pandora Papers find holes in EU’s fight against tax evasion
European Commission spokeswoman Dana Spinant appeared cautious in Brussels as she was questioned about the Pandora Papers. “We have seen that in the media as you have,” she said in response to questions from reporters. “We are not in a position to make any comments on individual names or individual entities mentioned in those papers.” It is likely that the…
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Iran clamps down on teachers demanding fair pay
Aziz Ghasemzadeh is a spokesman for the teachers’ union in Iran’s northern province of Gilan. Last week, he was arrested while he was doing an interview on his phone with a Persian-language broadcaster. The phone’s camera was still on and captured footage of the arrest at his parents’ home; you can hear his mother’s voice pleading with the officers not…
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Bangladesh: Who killed Rohingya leader Mohibullah?
Mohibullah, a high-profile figurehead for the Rohingya who have fled Myanmar, was killed by unidentified gunmen last week, in an event which has left investigators looking for a culprit. Mohibullah was shot last Wednesday, Sept. 29, in one of the sprawling camps in the coastal Bangladeshi city of Cox’s Bazar. The leader left for Bangladesh when over 730,000 Rohingya Muslims…
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Bundesliga: Protests, political messages as some ultras return
A change in Germany’s COVID-19 strategy means some stadiums see full capacity, with masks not being obligatory anymore. While some groups have criticized the new concept, others returned after a 19-month-absence. SOURCE: DW News
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COVID: Will India see a third wave in winter?
India has seen a significant dip in its coronavirus caseload over the past few weeks. However, health care workers and policymakers are warning of a possible third wave during the winter months. As of Monday, the country’s active case count stood at 271,550, marking the lowest figure in 199 days. The R-value, the number which measures the rate of transmission,…
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Thailand News Today | Pattaya prepares for re-opening, Moderna update | October 4
The Thai government has got rid of its list of “approved countries” and has opened up the sandbox programme to fully vaccinated visitors from anywhere in the world. Both the United States and the UK are cautioning their citizens against travel to Thailand, due to the high infection rate and low vaccination numbers. Pattaya is accelerating its rollout of Covid…
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Graft, drug trafficking threaten Albania’s chances of joining EU
Prosecutor Altin Dumani knows there is a lot to do. A lot. His office, in Albania’s capital, Tirana, is crammed with stacks of documents. All of the cases deal with organized crime, especially drug trafficking and corruption, problems that have hindered the small southeastern European country for decades, Dumani told DW. The 46-year-old is the deputy head of Albania’s relatively…
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Women’s Bundesliga: Deja vu for Wolfsburg hands Bayern Munich title advantage
Freiburg had failed to win a point all season but once again they have put a serious dent in Wolfsburg’s title hopes after a draw on Saturday. Elsewhere in women’s football, there are disturbing allegations in the NWSL. SOURCE: DW News
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German reunification: What happened to East Germany’s top football clubs?
After German reunification, East Germany’s top football clubs were integrated into the Bundesliga pyramid. But they struggled to compete and some huge names have slipped down the leagues. SOURCE: DW News
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‘Stasi club’ BFC Dynamo: What happened to the record East German champions?
With the anniversary of German unification on Sunday, the 10-time East German champions are languishing in the fourth division. BFC Dynamo are a unique club battling with the specters of past and present. SOURCE: DW News
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South Korea looks to Germany for reunification pointers
With just seven months left before he steps down as president of South Korea, Moon Jae-in and his government remain committed to their long-held dream of reuniting the two halves of the Korean Peninsula into a single nation. And, with Germany as one of the very few countries with recent experience of a similar amalgamation of two states, Unification Minister…
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Bundesliga: Fredi Bobic has work cut out at perennial crisis club Hertha Berlin
Hertha Berlin slipped to a fifth defeat of the season at home to Freiburg. Despite massive funding from investor Lars Windhorst, sporting director Fredi Bobic has a huge job on his hands. He insists it will take time. SOURCE: DW News
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The Gambia: The story of a Jammeh-era survivor
When Awa Njie married her late husband, Don Faal, in February 1994, she could hardly imagine the cruel fate that would befall her young family at the hands of her country’s regime. The couple met in her hometown of Farafefeeni, about 120 kilometers (70 miles) north of the Gambia’s capital, Banjul. At the time, Faal was stationed at an army…
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EU to launch ALMA work placement scheme for jobless youth
Carmen Quintana Gomez follows the same routine each day: wake up, breakfast, job search. “Everybody knows that they’re not going to have a job,” she said. “That’s how people think here.” For months now, the 25-year-old graduate from Spain’s capital, Madrid, has been out of formal education, training or employment — like around a quarter of Spaniards her age. She…
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Antisemitic incidents mar Union Berlin’s win over Maccabi Haifa
A pro-Israel group says its members suffered antisemitic abuse during Union Berlin’s Conference League game against the Israeli champions. The fans were in a block next to the away end at Berlin’s Olympiastadion. SOURCE: DW News
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Drought devastates northern Kenya
Kenya’s arid northern counties of Garissa and Wajir face severe drought, with nomadic pastoralists already losing many domestic stock. Climate change and poor rainfall has been blamed. SOURCE: DW News
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Burkinabe chef overcomes disability
Edith broke her arm after a fall, aged 7. Doctors chose to amputate her arm to avoid infection. Now she runs her own restaurant in a bustling subrub of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. SOURCE: DW News
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From peaceful protests to war: The evolution of Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict
Over the past five years, the English-speaking regions of Cameroon have rapidly morphed into a war zone. Lives have been lost, properties have been destroyed, and the humanitarian crisis continues to intensify. In its latest report, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) highlighted the impact on education: “Since the beginning of the crisis in 2016,…
