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The Most Alarming Development Yet ABC’s decision to settle a defamation suit with Trump represents a truly ominous moment.

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Nothing is more alarming than ABC settlement of Trump defamation lawsuit. A true fire bell in the Trumpist night, an awful herald of so much that may lie ahead.

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Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters & allied militias have raped scores of women and girls, including in the context of sexual slavery, in Sudan’s South Kordofan state since Sept 2023.

Sudan: Fighters Rape Women and Girls, Hold Sex Slaves Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters and allied militias have raped scores of women and girls, including in the context of sexual slavery, in Sudan’s South Kordofan state since September 2023, Human Ri...

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Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters & allied militias have raped scores of women and girls, including in the context of sexual slavery, in Sudan’s South Kordofan state since Sept 2023, Human Rights Watch said today.

Evictions and Evasions: State Involvement in Southeast Asia’s ‘Golden Era of Organized Crime’ Efforts to obscure or de-center state involvement in regional transnational crime are dangerous, because traditional approaches won’t work to counter crime co-perpetrated by states.

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As global attention on Southeast Asia’s transnational crime epidemic continues to increase, the sophistication of analysis on it is rising in sync. Last week’s U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report is an exemplar of this trend.

EU imposes new sanctions on Belarusian officials and companies supporting Lukashenko regime The sanctions target judges who sentenced opposition figures, law enforcement officials involved in persecuting dissidents, and heads of penitentiaries where political prisoners are held.

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Council of the EU adopted restrictive measures against 26 individuals & 2 companies linked to the regime of Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994, & widely regarded as a close ally of Putin.

Australia leads the world in arresting climate and environment protesters A new study shows more than 20 per cent of climate and environment protests in Australia lead to arrests, more than in the UK, Norway, and the United States.

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Australian police are world leaders at arresting climate and environmental protesters.

20% all climate and environment protests in Australia involve arrests, more than three times the 6.3% global average.

Turkey condemns Israel plan to double Golan Heights population Ankara says plan would ‘seriously undermine’ efforts to bring stability to Syria after Bashar al-Assad’s fall

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Israel captured 2/3 of Golan Heights from Syria during the 1967 6-day war. Last week, it moved troops & armour into a supposedly demilitarised buffer zone beyond the land it already occupies.

Germany set for snap elections after vote of no confidence in Chancellor Olaf Scholz – as it happened Chancellor triggered path to elections, due to take place on 23 February, by firing finance minister Christian Lindner

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Of the 717 votes tallied, 207 gave Scholz confidence, 394 did not and 116 abstained. Scholz had required 367 confidence votes to “win” the ballot.

“We have reached the end of our daily agenda, and also of the traffic light coalition,”

Israel's war with Iran on seven fronts Newsweek outlines active clashes in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Iran as regional tensions mount.

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Netanyahu has admitted Israel is engaged in a "seven-front war" with Iran, ops in Gaza, its recently paused conflict with Hezbollah, & Israeli Defense Forces have deployed soldiers into Syrian Golan Heights.

Netanyahu's court testimony canceled in corruption trial Netanyahu's court testimony was canceled in his trial on corruption charges due to "extraordinary circumstances," judges said.

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The cancellation came after Netanyahu's team had made "closed-door arguments" in favor of delaying the session, at which Netanyahu was expected to testify for the third time in the ongoing corruption trial.

Ukraine says North Koreans took heavy casualties during weekend attack in Kursk region | CNN Ukraine said on Monday that North Korean soldiers fighting alongside Russian troops suffered heavy losses during fighting at the weekend in the Russian region of Kursk.

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North Korean units that arrived in Kursk last month were involved in assaults at the weekend near 3 villages, according to Ukraine’s defense intelligence service. 30 North Korean soldiers were killed or wounded.

Scholz's Social Democratic Party rejects sending Taurus missiles to Ukraine in election program, media reports "We stand by Chancellor Olaf Scholz's decision not to deliver the Taurus cruise missile from the Bundeswehr's stocks," the SPD program reportedly reads, adding that weapons deliveries should come with...

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democratic Party (SPD) has long been adamant in refusal to provide German Taurus long-range missiles to Ukraine, even as other major backers, including U.S., have done so.

How we'll know if Trump is going to sell America out to China Keep an eye on the export controls. They are the key.

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Trump isn’t even President yet, & already some people are starting to realize that they didn’t get quite what they hoped they were voting for.

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