CBS broadcast on Sunday its “60 Minutes” report on a Salvadoran mega-prison condemned by human rights groups for its harsh conditions, weeks after the network pulled the segment just hours before runtime.The report on the facility housing…
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CBS airs El Salvador mega prison report after delay
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Donald Trump criticizes Denmark over Russian threat in Greenland
US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Denmark has not been able to do anything to get the “Russian threat” away from Greenland, and said, “Now it is time, and it will be done!!!””NATO has been telling Denmark, for 20 years, that you have…
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Teenager among Iranian protesters sexually assaulted in custody, rights group says | Global development
A 16-year-old was among protesters sexually assaulted in custody by the security forces in Iran during the nationwide uprising that has left thousands dead, according to a human rights group.
Two people, one of them a child, detained in the city…
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To disarm or not to disarm? Kurdish-led forces in Syria chose no
Syria (MNN) — It takes trust or force to lay down your weapons. And trust is exactly what the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) doesn’t have for the government under interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
The SDF is an alliance of…
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‘A home left quieter, clothes still hanging in wardrobes’: emotional MPs pay tribute to Bondi terror attack victims | Tony Burke
Labor MP Josh Burns has recalled the fear that struck him the moment he learned of the Bondi terror attack and former attorney general Mark Dreyfus became visibly emotional during a condolence motion in federal parliament for victims of the…
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Trump Hasn’t Backed Down From an Iran Attack, as the U.S. Holds the Door Open for Diplomacy
The largest wave of protests Iran has seen since the 1979 Islamic Revolution seems to have dissipated, according to reports. A handful of protesters are still gathering in a few cities and thousands of detainees are being held in detention…
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More than 65 missing, six dead after huge Karachi blaze
Firefighters in Karachi searched on Sunday for more than 65 missing people after a massive fire tore through a shopping mall in the historic downtown district, killing six and reducing parts of the building to rubble.Videos showed flames rising…
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Australian parliament honors victims of Bondi terror attack-Xinhua
CANBERRA, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) — Australia’s federal parliament has paid tribute to the victims of the Bondi Beach shooting after being reconvened to debate new laws proposed in response to the terror attack.
The federal parliament on Monday…
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Rushed laws after a tragedy are ‘never good’, warns father of youngest Bondi victim | Bondi beach terror attack
The parents of 10-year-old Matilda, the youngest person killed in the Bondi massacre, have said they would like the footbridge used by the alleged gunmen to be saved and painted yellow in honour of the sundress their daughter wore on her final…
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Trump, oil, and the crisis in Iran
The new waves of protests in Iran expose the exhaustion of a political model that combines theocracy, security apparatus, and a besieged economy under sanctions and proxy wars to maintain a regime increasingly disconnected from its society. The…
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