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Moscow detached from the fighting
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 18/09/2022
» On a recent evening in Red Square, a corps of elite paratroopers dressed in camouflage performed a battle-like dance with pyrotechnics. An Egyptian performer dressed as a pharaoh rode back and forth in a chariot wielding an ankh, the ancient Egyptian symbol of life, as a band played Katyusha, a Soviet-era patriotic war song.
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Laughing off the fear
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 03/07/2022
» When Taha al-Baskini won a part in a new play about soldiers who reunite after dying in combat, his costume was already in his closet. His onstage camouflage pants were the same ones he had worn as a militia fighter during Libya's most recent civil war a few years ago, when an airstrike injured al-Baskini and killed several of his comrades as they defended their city.
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Rich developer vs the local paper
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 28/08/2022
» Summers in Aspen are usually a breezy idyll of sunny hikes and ice-cream socials, a season when rich tourists fly in to attend jazz festivals and soak up mountain views from their US$1,000 (35,000 baht)-a-night hotel rooms.
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Praise be to Trump
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 17/04/2022
» They opened with an invocation, summoning God's "hedge of thorns and fire" to protect each person in the dark Phoenix parking lot.
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HK protests: Behind the barricade
News, Dave Kendall, Published on 18/11/2019
» On the night of Nov 13th in Hong Kong, I heard there was a protest in the city centre of the area of the New Territories I was staying in, Sha Tin. After crossing the bridge over the Shing Mun River, I notice four protesters talking beneath a pedestrian underpass. Walking through the megamalls that constitute the city centre, I see workers clearing up broken glass but see no protesters. But on my way back across the bridge to my hotel, I encounter a crowd of about 50 people yelling and screaming abuse, and working my way through them, see a line of riot police advancing from the other direction. After several minutes of shining torches and bellowing warnings through a megaphone, the police raise the black flag warning that tear gas will be fired. The crowd retreats as one or two canisters are fired.
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Emerging from obscurity: 2019's unforeseen history-makers
AFP, Published on 04/12/2019
» PARIS: Of the many people who made history in 2019, some surprised themselves and the world by emerging from obscurity to make their mark, though one remains anonymous for the time being -- "The Whistleblower" behind the impeachment probe into US President Donald Trump.
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Ukraine says Russia buying Starlink terminals in 'Arab countries'
Published on 13/02/2024
» KYIV - Russian forces are buying Starlink satellite internet terminals in "Arab countries" for use on the battlefield, Ukraine's military spy agency said on Tuesday.
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Germany braces for decades of confrontation with Russia
Published on 04/02/2024
» BERLIN: German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has begun warning Germans that they should prepare for decades of confrontation with Russia — and that they must speedily rebuild the country’s military in case Russian Vladimir Putin does not plan to stop at the border with Ukraine.
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Malaysia's outgoing king wants govt stability, bigger role for monarchs
Published on 29/01/2024
» KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's King Al-Sultan Abdullah has called for government stability, warning that the country risked losing investors and falling behind its competitors due to prolonged political turmoil.
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Chinese foreign minister's Brazil stop yields mutual visa deal
South China Morning Post, Published on 21/01/2024
» China and Brazil have agreed to streamline visa processes to revive exchanges between the two countries to pre-pandemic levels.
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