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UK government calls on Thailand to accelerate its net-zero target
As the UK prepares to host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference, the British government is urging Thailand to sign a key pact. The UK is hosting the climate talks, known as COP26, in partnership with Italy. The event takes place in Glasgow, Scotland, between October 31 and November 12. The Bangkok Post reports that a press briefing was held…
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Queries over Google’s planned billion-dollar investment in Africa
Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai recently announced a $1billion (€858 million) investment in Africa. The massive investment will run for over five years and cover a range of initiatives. Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, and Ghana, will be the primary beneficiaries of the tech giant. It will prioritize improvement in connectivity and supporting innovative start-ups. The announcement comes when foreign direct investment (FDI)…
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IT dreams for Ugandan children
These children have not gone to school for almost two years due to Uganda’s COVID-19 measures. But neighbor Shamim Mwanaisha has introduced them to coding, vital tool in innovation and communication fields. She teaches from a porch with laptops and a bunch of fascinated kids. SOURCE: DW News
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World in Progress: Inside the US Opioid Crisis
More than half a million people have died from opioids in the past two decades in the USA. What started with doctors prescribing legal painkillers – such as Oxycontin – has now spiraled into much more dangerous substances. Hardly anyone knows what’s in them anymore. It’s had an impact on almost everyone from doctors to policemen and women to factory…
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Singapore Airlines launches 60 minute A380 flights
It’s designed to ferry lots of people long distances, in an ultra-quiet flying experience. So flyers would be used to flying the huge Airbus A380 from LA to London, Bahrain to Frankfurt, Melbourne to Hong Kong. The massive super jumbo airliner wasn’t designed for a short 1 hour hop. But that’s exactly what Singapore Airlines have planned now they’re getting…
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With dueling downgrades, NATO-Russia diplomacy is at a new low
Though high-level discussions between NATO and Russia have been few and far between in recent years, the Kremlin’s announcement that it would shutter its mission to the alliance, force NATO military officials to leave Moscow and close the NATO Information Office (NIO) there still sent a chill through the already-frosty channels. Robert Pszczel was the last diplomat NATO posted to…
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North Korean defectors struggle adapting to life in the South
For the tens of thousands of North Koreans who have escaped their repressive homeland and completed the often-perilous journey to South Korea, their problems are often far from over. Some defectors face prejudice in South Korean society, according to a recent report looking at the experiences of new arrivals in the South last year — before the North Korean regime…
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Exposed: How big farm lobbies undermine EU’s green agriculture plan
It is a long way from the farms and fields of Sezze in central Italy to the halls of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. But the decisions made at the European assembly this week can directly impact the lives of farmers like Valentina Pallavicino. Her farm in the plains between Rome and the Mediterranean is the kind that is often…
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Pakistan: Women YouTubers counter sexist slur
On their YouTube channel, four Pakistani women take on sensitive and taboo topics like rape and sexual consent that mainstream media outlets are hesitant to cover. SOURCE: DW News
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Myanmar’s junta government releases prisoners, cancels arrest warrants
In the wake of ASEAN recently announcing it would exclude Myanmar’s representatives from future summits, Myanmar’s junta government made the move to release prisoners. The government is also cancelling arrest warrants for thousands of its people after making the announcement yesterday. The statement said that 1,316 people in detention will be released and that 4,320 cases will be dropped. Citing…
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North Korea continues testing ballistic missiles
The South Korean military reported that North Korea is continuing their testing of ballistic missiles. Today, the North fired a missile from land into the Sea of Japan to the East of the country. This act is only the latest transgression, in a series of many, amidst escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula. Seoul’s Joint Chief of Staff reported that…
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Vietnam to host next Southeast Asia Games
Vietnam is set to host the upcoming 31st Southeast Asia Games in May of 2022, after being delayed this year because of the Covid-19 pandemic. This multi-sport competition features most of the same events as the Summer Olympics, and includes both individual and team events. The SEA games are held every 2 years in a different country within the Southeast Asia…
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Covid-19 pill treatment highly effective at preventing hospitalisation, death
A prominent Thai virologist says the world’s first oral treatment for Covid-19 is highly effective if taken within 5 days of symptoms developing. Dr Yong Poovorawan from the Centre of Excellence in Clinical Virology at Chulalongkorn University made the statement on his Facebook page yesterday. According to a Bangkok Post report, he was citing research published on the health sciences…
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Politicians across the world face growing dangers
Death threats, hate mail, anonymous phone calls — politicians in many countries need police protection as they carry out their work. Here are some prominent attacks on lawmakers that have occurred in recent years. Great Britain Conservative MP David Amess is the second British politician in five years to be murdered. Back in June 2016, Labour Party MP Helen Joanne…
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AfricaLink on Air – 18 October 2021
News+++Sudanese protesters demand return to military rule+++Cameroon separatists declare days of national mourning+++Nigeria battles to revive palm oil industry+++mRNA hopes for malaria vaccine+++Sports SOURCE: DW News
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Albania’s Rama decries ‘dangers’ of online media freedom
According to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, online media in Albania can potentially be as harmful as Nazi propaganda, pedophilia and terrorism. Rama voiced this opinion during the 8th OSCE South East Europe Media Conference “Journalism in times of crisis,” which took place recently in the Albanian capital, Tirana. “When you try to imagine what the Nazi propaganda machine would…
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Afghanistan: Taliban road construction projects stall without foreign funding
One day after the last US forces left Afghanistan in August, Taliban official Inamullah Samangani said in a speech that the war was over, and the Taliban would now have to focus on rebuilding Afghanistan’s economy. It looks like road construction is where the group has decided to begin. Since then, the Taliban have announced several road construction projects. These…
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Children in Jakarta’s slums get a second chance at education
Every child has a right to education, says Desi Purwatuning, the founder of a school for poor children who dropped out of school. Desi teaches both children and parents the importance of education. SOURCE: DW News
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ASEAN snub of Myanmar junta praised by opposition government
Myanmar’s opposition government has commended the ASEAN announcement that they will not invite the junta leader to the regional summit. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations said that any envoy from Myanmar should be a legitimate representative. They have opted instead to invite a non-political representative from Myanmar, in what appears to be a clear snub of the country’s military…
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Golden Dawn is down, but far right rises again in Greece
The images from a vocational school in Stavroupoli, a suburb of Thessaloniki in northern Greece, were shocking. On September 27, hooded youths dressed in black used crowbars, knives and stones against peers who had distributed leaflets criticizing the right-wing government’s education policies. The attackers later gave the Nazi salute in the schoolyard. The attack was the first in a series…
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Burmese junta leader not invited to ASEAN summit
After many members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations expressed frustration at the Burmese junta seeming to brush off the actions agreed upon at a summit in April, the group is showing its ire by not inviting Burmese junta leader General Min Aung Hlaing to this month’s ASEAN summit. After an emergency meeting Friday, the decision was announced by…
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Moderna vaccine approved as a booster shot by US FDA
Moderna just got a boost as a booster as experts advising the US Food and Drug Administration recommended the vaccine for use as a booster shot even for those over the age of 65 and at higher medical risk to Covid-19. The unanimous vote will likely lead to the FDA approving the recommendation and passing it to the Centres for…
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Historians wanted Macron to call Paris massacre state crime
On October 17, 1961, supporters of the Algerian independence movement protested a curfew imposed by the Prefecture of Police on Paris and its suburbs that singled out “Algerian Muslim workers,” “French Muslims” and “French Muslims of Algeria.” When police reacted with brutality, the protest ended in carnage. “The police created a bloodbath, using everything they could get their hands on,…
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Fact check: How one man was wrongly accused in Kongsberg attack
Whenever an act of terrorism or mass murder takes place, there is a race on social media to be the first to publish information about both attack and attacker. However, these initial reports are often mere speculation. They may also be completely false. This is what happened following the recent attack in the Norwegian town of Kongsberg. When a man…
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Why Saudi-Iran relations are thawing — for now
So far this year, regional arch-rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran have met more times than in the previous five years altogether. The four meetings in Baghdad, and one on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, indicate continuity in the warming of bilateral relations that had been frozen since 2016. Back then, protesters had attacked Saudi diplomatic…
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Is the EU doing enough to protect journalists?
When Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered on October 16, 2017 in a car bomb attack people were shocked, not only across Europe but around the world. But the Maltese reporter who was renowned for her investigations into corruption and money laundering wasn’t the only one. In the four years since her death, other colleagues including Jan Kuciak from Slovakia, Giorgos…
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Australian suspected gas leak is actually familiar smell for Thais
In Australia’s capital city, an emergency was quickly diffused to a misunderstanding due to an unrecognised smell that’s all too familiar to the people of Thailand. Canberra firefighters raced to a store that was evacuated after people smelled a strong odour and warned of a gas leak. The incident took place in the Dickson shopping precinct and the public were…
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AfricaLink on Air – 15 October 2021
Nigeria’s military says Abu Musab al-Barnawi leader of ISWAP dead+++Zimbabwe: Mandatory COVID-19 jabs for civil servants SOURCE: DW News
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COVID: Pandemic anxiety on the rise in India
The coronavirus health crisis and the restrictions imposed on public life to combat the spread of the virus have had a terrible effect on people’s mental health and well-being in India. A range of factors, including restrictions on social contact, lockdowns, economic insecurity and school and business closures, have contributed to a steep rise in cases of depression and anxiety.…
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