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Powerful earthquakes strike Turkey and Syria, killing more than 1,600 people
Live Mint 06 Feb 2023photo: AP / Mustafa Karali
Why Was The Turkey-Syria Earthquake So Devastating?
Huffington Post 06 Feb 2023
The epicentre was about 16 miles (26 km) east of the Turkish city of Nurdagi on the East Anatolian Fault ... The Arabian plate is pushing northwards into Europe, causing the Anatolian plate to be pushed westward at a rate of about 2cm per year.
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Russian forces keep up pressure as Ukraine anniversary nears
The News-Gazette 06 Feb 2023
Pavlo Kyrylenko said in televised remarks, adding that “the Russians are throwing new units into the battle and eradicating our towns and villages.” ... Russian President Vladimir Putin is hungry for some battlefield success, especially securing illegally annexed territory in eastern Ukraine, to mark the anniversary of his invasion on Feb.
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Iraq to ask US how to pay Russian energy firms
The New Arab 06 Feb 2023photo: AP / Vahid Salemi
‘They used our hijabs to gag us’: Iran protesters tell of rapes, beatings and torture by police
The Observer 06 Feb 2023
Dorsa was with her sister and two male friends ... He then left.” ... Photograph ... Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties ... “I haven’t told my husband about being sexually assaulted ... I still find it hard to talk about ... “But I don’t pity myself, I pity these men who are disgusting and live small lives ... .
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Japan's new security policy: normalizing or remilitarizing?
Korea Times 06 Feb 2023
Aside from how these neighbors feel about it, Tokyo's new security policy brings back the decades-old debate over the country's vision for its place in the global security order ... If Tokyo is to avoid a vicious cycle of the security dilemma, it must try to alleviate the regional community's lingering concerns about its intentions for rearmament.
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US strategies toward China and Russia remain a mix of contradictions
The Hill 06 Feb 2023
Meanwhile, support for Ukraine is caught between President Biden’s refusal to send F-16 fighters to Kyiv and former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plea for the equivalent of President Kennedy’s “pay any price” to save Ukrainian democracy from an out-of-control dictator. In both cases, U.S.
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Fidesz MP challenges von der Leyen - Free West Media
WorldNews.com 06 Feb 2023
In a current plenary debate on migration, the Hungarian Fidesz MEP Kinga Gál confronted the EU Commission after Commission President von der Leyen had once again spoken out in favor of a European redistribution mechanism for migrants. Strasbourg ... The Hungarian Fidesz ruling party has no time for such plans ... There’s only one solution. Keep illegals out.
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Possible nuclear armament for South Korea
Korea Times 06 Feb 2023
If South Korea is truly a sovereign independent state, it is quite natural for its president to speak about the possibility of nuclear armament at a time when the North Korean nuclear threat has become a reality ... The more serious problem is if Yoon makes such remarks about the ...
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Pope says Church conservatives exploited death of ex-pope Benedict
The Jerusalem Post 06 Feb 2023
(credit ... The pope said he often consulted Benedict in the nearly 10 years between his resignation in 2013 and his death ... Immediately after Benedict's funeral on January 5, the late ex pope's long-time secretary, Archbishop Georg Ganswein, published a book about what he said were strains while two men wearing white lived in the Vatican ... .
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Kenyan court sentences police officer to death for triple murder
The Guardian 06 Feb 2023photo: Creative Commons / Kauey https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
Danish bishops protest against abolition of Great Prayer Day to fund NATO
Free West Media 06 Feb 2023
It is a "significant intervention in the tradition of the national church" to want to abolish Great Prayer Day in Denmark ... The government wants to abolish a public holiday in Denmark to finance new resources for NATO participation ... “They forget to respect us and include us for advice and negotiations about these things,” she added ... ....
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DR Congo: Atrocities by Rwanda-Backed M23 Rebels
Human Rights Watch 06 Feb 2023
Human Rights Watch found that on November 29, M23 rebels summarily killed at least 22 civilians in Kishishe following fighting with factions of Mai-Mai Mazembe, Nyatura and the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda, FDLR).
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Israel commander distributes book encouraging the confiscation of Palestine land
Middle East Monitor 06 Feb 2023
The commander of the West Bank division in the Israeli army, Avi Bluth, distributed a book to brigade commanders in the division about "land clearing" ...
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