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YouTube suspends Trump for at least a week YouTube said late Tuesday it’s suspending Trump’s channel for at least one week for violating the company’s policies.

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YouTube suspends Trump for at least a week YouTube said late Tuesday it’s suspending Trump’s channel for at least one week for violating the company’s policies.

YouTube said late Tuesday it’s suspending President Donald Trump’s channel for at least one week for violating the company’s policies amid fears of additional violence in the wake of the insurrection at the Capitol.The details: The Google-owned video-sharing service announced in a tweet that the action would count as an initial strike against Trump’s account, which […]

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Uganda prepares to vote in general election marred by repression

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Uganda prepares to vote in general election marred by repression

President Yoweri Museveni and singer-turned-politician Bobi Wine are the main contenders in Uganda’s presidential elections on January 14, 2021. AFP – SUMY SADURNI,YASUYOSHI CHIBA The most prominent of the 10 opposition candidates is the National Unity Platform’s Bobi Wine – a 38-year-old ragga star who has used his popularity with Uganda’s youthful population to defy the 76-year-old president and his National Resistance […]

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‘Supremely self-absorbed’: Isolated Trump unlikely to mount an aggressive impeachment defense He’s not doing much governing, aides said. Instead, Trump has surrounded himself with a handful of loyalists who were with him since the

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‘Supremely self-absorbed’: Isolated Trump unlikely to mount an aggressive impeachment defense He’s not doing much governing, aides said. Instead, Trump has surrounded himself with a handful of loyalists who were with him since the

House Democrats are poised to impeach him on Wednesday. But President Donald Trump is not expected to mount a forceful White House defense against charges he incited last week’s deadly riots inside the U.S. Capitol, according to a White House official. Trump knows he’s unlikely to be removed from office with Republicans controlling the Senate […]

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Donald Trump faces second impeachment as Democrats formally begin process

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Donald Trump faces second impeachment as Democrats formally begin process

House Democrats have formally unveiled their resolution to impeach President Donald Trump (Picture: Getty Images) Donald Trump is in danger of being removed from office as house Democrats formally begin an impeachment process against him for the second time. The single impeachment article was introduced to the house at 11am EST (4pm UK) and marks […]

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Somalia and Kenya still have a road to neighbourly cooperation, Neither Somalia nor Kenya can afford the multifaceted dispute that led to the severance of ties turning into a protracted crisis.

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Somalia and Kenya still have a road to neighbourly cooperation, Neither Somalia nor Kenya can afford the multifaceted dispute that led to the severance of ties turning into a protracted crisis.

In December, Somalia cut diplomatic ties with Kenya accusing it of repeatedly “meddling in its internal affairs” and “violating its sovereignty”. The move brought the long-simmering tensions between the two neighbours to the surface and ushered in a tinderbox situation that will have wide-reaching geopolitical ramifications if not resolved quickly. Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo […]

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Deleting WhatsApp: Irate users in Turkey flock to alternatives over new data policy

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Deleting WhatsApp: Irate users in Turkey flock to alternatives over new data policy

 Hashtags like “#WhatsAppSiliyoruz” (“DeletingWhatsapp”) are now the most trending topics on social media channels, mainly on Twitter, across Turkey as widespread criticism regarding the messaging app’s new controversial personal data policy is growing. People are also rapidly switching to alternatives, including a domestic messaging app. WhatsApp is warning users in a pop-up notice that they […]

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Trump’s New Criminal Problem The president could face charges for inciting the Capitol riot—and maybe even for inciting the murder of a Capitol Police Officer.

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Trump’s New Criminal Problem The president could face charges for inciting the Capitol riot—and maybe even for inciting the murder of a Capitol Police Officer.

President Donald Trump. | Getty Images The world watched in horror Wednesday as a violent insurrectionist mob attacked the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to obstruct the democratic process of certifying the vote for president. Five Americans died in the attack, including Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick. If the federal investigation into the deaths determines […]

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Indonesia plane crash: Black boxes located as search for survivors continues

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Indonesia plane crash: Black boxes located as search for survivors continues

. Investigators of Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee inspect parts of Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 recovered from the Java Seawhere it crashed on Saturday 9 Jan. 2021   –   Copyright  Tatan Syuflana/Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Indonesian divers on Monday were still searching for the black boxes of a crashed jet that nosedived into the Java Sea […]

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Al Shabaab wreaks havoc in Mandera, governor calls for help ,Governor says the group is getting bolder and more aggressive by the day.

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Al Shabaab wreaks havoc in Mandera, governor calls for help ,Governor says the group is getting bolder and more aggressive by the day.

Mandera Governor Ali Roba has raised an alarm over the resurgence of the Somalia terror-based group al Shabaab. Roba on Friday said he has been forced to go public about the deteriorating security situation in North Eastern Kenya and particularly Mandera County because people are now living in fear after a return of the Al […]

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British PM Johnson under fire as UK coronavirus cases top 3 million

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British PM Johnson under fire as UK coronavirus cases top 3 million

 The crisis facing Britain this winter is depressingly familiar: Stay-at-home orders and empty streets. Hospitals overflowing. A daily toll of many hundreds of coronavirus deaths.The United Kingdom is the epicenter of Europe’s COVID-19 outbreak once more, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government is facing questions, and anger, as people demand to know how the […]

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