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US, EU agree to coordinate policies toward China, Russia
Beijing News 06 Mar 2021
This comes as the United States under the Biden-led administration, last month, announced the launch of a new China task force that will provide recommendations on military strategy to the Department of Defense (DoD) to counter growing challenges posed by Beijing.
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Flamingos poisoned by illegal lead pellets in Greek lagoon
Phys Dot Org 06 Mar 2021photo: AP / U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Josh W. Strickland
B-52s again fly over Mideast in US military warning to Iran
News-Press Now 07 Mar 2021
The flight by the two heavy bombers came as a pro-Iran satellite channel based in Beirut broadcast Iranian military drone footage of an Israeli ship hit by a mysterious explosion only days earlier in the Mideast ... However, tensions remain high after militias in Iraq — likely backed by Iran — continue to target American interests.
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Biden proposes a Quad summit; this is why
Asiatimes 07 Mar 2021
The Quad did not even merit a reference in the “first major foreign-policy speech” delivered by Secretary of State Antony Blinken on March 3 or in the document titled released by the White House the same day ... Now, any attempt by the Modi government to make a bilateral move to improve relations with Beijing could upset Biden’s apple cart.
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Space-starved Singapore builds floating solar farms in climate fight
Indiatoday 07 Mar 2021photo: AP / Peter Dejong, File
Meretz Leader Sticks to Blaming Right Wing for ICC Probe
Hamodia 07 Mar 2021
“This is a failure of Israeli leadership and policy that is preserving the occupation in the territories for years now,” he said ... Asked whether the ICC hasn’t crossed a red line by singling out Israel and ignoring major offenders around the world, he replied ... The Meretz chairman’s comments drew fire from the right ... .
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Myanmar forces make night raids after breaking up protests
Asahi News 07 Mar 2021
State-run MRTV said a surgical investigation showed she could not have been killed by police because the wrong sort of projectile was found in her head and she had been shot from behind, whereas police were in front ... The killings have drawn anger in the West and have also been condemned by most democracies in Asia.
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China to connect Tibet with high-speed bullet trains before July: Report
The Times of India 07 Mar 2021
A 435-km rail link to the regional capital of Lhasa will run Fuxing high-speed trains powered by both internal-combustion and electricity, Lu Dongfu, board chairman of Company Limited, told state-run Xinhua news agency on Saturday ... The track-laying work was completed by the end of 2020, the report said.
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Sisi visits Sudan
Gulf Daily News 07 Mar 2021
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi has called for a binding deal by the summer on the operation of a ...
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UK Data Show 402 Reports of Deaths Following COVID Vaccines
GlobalResearch 07 Mar 2021
... going through the available data found as many as 178 potentially related reports in the first 67 days) More recently they did not anticipate problems with PEG and anaphylaxis before the rollout of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine, though these were already identified by others”.
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Investigate crimes in Tigray now, or risk a fragmented Ethiopia
Mail Guardian South Africa 07 Mar 2021
Tigrayans and concerned observers argue that such allegations must be immediately investigated by an independent investigative body ... Criminal accountability may be impossible if evidence collection is marred by the same kinds of communication blocks and politicised obstruction that has affected the delivery of humanitarian assistance to the region.
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Brexit: UK calls on EU to ‘shake off any remaining ill will’ amid fallout over North trade move
The Irish Times 07 Mar 2021
The Northern Ireland protocol in the Withdrawal Agreement was designed by the EU and UK to avoid a hardening of the border on the island of Ireland ... Elsewhere, the chief British negotiator in Northern Ireland from 1997 to 2007 said Mr Frost had chosen to “poke a stick in the eye” of the bloc by taking unilateral action on the grace periods.
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China, Ethiopia ink accord on establishing security safeguarding mechanism for major projects under BRI
China.dot.org 07 Mar 2021
Demelash Gebremichael (2nd R, Front), commissioner-general of the Ethiopian Federal Police Commission, and Zhao Zhiyuan (2nd L, Front), Chinese Ambassador to Ethiopia, sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on March 6, 2021 ... (Xinhua/Michael Tewelde) ... .
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Russia Effectively Freezes Confirmation of Biden’s CIA Pick as Senators Squabble Over Nord Stream 2
Sputnik 06 Mar 2021photo: AP / Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool
Blinken blinks on Palestinian and Saudi rights
Asiatimes 07 Mar 2021
In a nutshell, the statement exposes that President Joe Biden’s administration has blinked for a second time on the human rights situation in West Asia by refusing even to acknowledge that the International Criminal Court’s investigation into the “Palestinian situation” is about human rights first and foremost.
