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Venezuela sends 11,000 troops to control gang-run prison with pool and zoo
Al Jazeera 21 Sep 2023
Amnesty ... end of list ... An AFP team reported security officers carrying motorcycles, televisions, air conditioners and microwaves out of the jail ... The gang’s leader is Hector Guerrero Flores, who was serving a 17-year sentence in the prison for murder and drug trafficking, said Carlos Nieto, coordinator of A Window for Freedom, a prison rights NGO ... .
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Syria's Assad visits China for first time since civil war
Deutsche Welle 21 Sep 2023
Syrian President Bashar Assad is due to meet with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. China has long provided diplomatic support to Assad's regime, and could play a role in reconstructing war-battered Syria ... .
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Rupert Murdoch steps down, says 'companies in robust health, as am I'
India Today 21 Sep 2023
Rupert Murdoch has stepped down as the chairman of Fox Corp and News Corp, ending a more than seven-decade career during which he created a media empire ....
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India suspends visa services in Canada and rift widens over killing of Canadian citizen
Moosejaw Today 21 Sep 2023
NEW DELHI (AP) — India's visa processing center in Canada suspended services Thursday as a rift widened between the countries after Canada's leader said India may have been involved in the killing of a Canadian citizen ... Canada also expelled an Indian diplomat, and India followed by expelling a Canadian diplomat on Tuesday ... It gave no further details.
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Niger’s ousted Bazoum appeals to West Africa bloc court to free him
Al Jazeera 21 Sep 2023
The lawsuit invokes his “arbitrary arrest” and “violation of freedom of movement”, Diagne said. “We request… in view of the violation of political rights, that the State of Niger be ordered to immediately restore constitutional order by handing over power to President Bazoum, who must continue to exercise it until the end of his mandate.” ... .
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Italian PM Giorgia Meloni urges UN to wage 'war without mercy' on migrant trafficking
Raw Story 21 Sep 2023
Addressing the UN General Assembly, right-wing prime minister Giorgia Meloni said that Italy, which next year heads the Group of Seven wealthy democracies, was ready to lead efforts against the "slave traders of the third millennium." ... "To do so we need to work together at every level. Italy plans to be on the frontline on this issue." ... .
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Poland to stop arming Ukraine over grain deal - Polish PM
RTE 21 Sep 2023
Warsaw took offense at this ... The current populist right-wing government of the Law and Justice party has strong support in farming regions ... "According to initial reports, cruise missiles of the X-101/555/55 type were launched from about 10 Tu-95MS strategic aircraft," Sergiy Popko, head of the city's military administration, said on Telegram ... .
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Man to be executed for 1996 slaying of University of Oklahoma student and Arkansas native
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 21 Sep 2023
Oklahoma is set to execute an inmate Thursday morning for the 1996 slaying of a University of Oklahoma dance student and Arkansas native, a case that went unsolved for years until DNA from the crime scene matched a man serving time for burglary. Anthony Sanchez, 44, is scheduled to receive a three-drug injection at 10 a.m ... Supreme Court ... .
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Despite Push for 'Common Prosperity,' China's Income Gap Widens
Voa News 21 Sep 2023
In 2022, according to the National Bureau of Statistics report, the average income of the richest 20% of urban households had widened to 6.3 times that of the poorest 20% of households. The discrepancy in rural areas is even more extreme, the report shows, with the income gap last year between the richest and poorest as high as 9.2 times.
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Australian Lawmakers Call For Release Of Julian Assange During Talks In US
NDTV 21 Sep 2023
A cross-party delegation of Australian lawmakers that traveled to the United States seeking the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said they had a productive discussion in Washington with the... .
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Azerbaijan to hold peace talks with Armenian separatists after Karabakh victory
France24 21 Sep 2023
Azerbaijan will hold peace talks with Armenian separatists on Thursday, after a swift military victory in the breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh ... .
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'Game of Thrones' author, other writers sue ChatGPT creator over copyrights
Eye Witness News 21 Sep 2023
"And at the heart of these algorithms is systematic theft on a massive scale," said the complaint, filed Tuesday in a New York federal court ... Microsoft announced this month that it would provide legal protection for customers sued for copyright infringement over content generated by its AI tools. .
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South Korean police probe US soldiers over drug smuggling
Anadolu Agency 21 Sep 2023
One United States Forces Korea (USFK) service member and two women, including a South Korean and a Filipino, were arrested Wednesday for suspected drug trafficking through military mail, Seoul-based Yonhap News reported. They have been sent for indictment ... .
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