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‘Persuasion first, violence later’: the Taliban’s new vice and virtue approach
The Observer 19 Sep 2021
Mawlawi Mohammad Shebani is officially in charge of policing morals throughout Kandahar, the Taliban heartland of southern Afghanistan ... He described a network fully integrated into the Taliban police force, with ties to mosques and madrassas, and formal rules of operation, which have been made public ... Photograph. Emma Graham-Harrison/the Observer ... .
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Australia could lease submarines from UK or US but nuclear weapons remain off the table
The Observer 19 Sep 2021
The short-term leasing of nuclear-powered submarines from the UK or the US is being considered by the Morrison government but the Coalition insists nuclear weapons won’t be based in Australia ... “The short answer is yes,” Dutton said when asked on Sky News about leasing vessels ... Sign up to receive the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning ... .
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Why Greece’s expensive new migrant camps are outraging NGOs
The Observer 19 Sep 2021
It has eight restaurants, seven basketball courts, three playgrounds, a football pitch, special rooms for vulnerable people, and is purportedly eco-friendly ... Its message is clear. if Europe-bound asylum seekers reach the country, they are going to be strictly controlled ... But critics have likened the reception centres to prisons ... It is a disgrace.” ... .
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Israel carries out mass arrests of Palestinians after jailbreak
Al Jazeera 19 Sep 2021
Ramallah, Occupied West Bank – Israeli security forces have detained dozens of Palestinians in recent days in a campaign of mass arrests in response to an embarrassing high-security prison escape earlier this month ... “This does not include the Palestinians arrested within Israel.” ... Arresting children ... .
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Police outnumber protesters at right-wing Capitol rally
BBC News 19 Sep 2021
A few hundred protesters gathered around the US Capitol on Saturday, for a rally in support of the pro-Trump rioters who ransacked the building on 6 January. But the group were easily outnumbered by the police and journalists present. Ahead of the event, police said they had detected "threats of violence" and security was tightened in Washington ... .
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US to step up deportation flights for migrants stranded at Texas bridge
Manila Bulletin 19 Sep 2021
Del Rio, United States -The United States said Saturday it would ramp up deportation flights for thousands of migrants who flooded into the Texas border city of Del Rio, as authorities scramble to alleviate a burgeoning crisis for President Joe Biden’s administration ... Texas Republicans seized on the crisis to lash out at Biden ... .
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Israel recaptures final Palestinian escapees
BBC News 19 Sep 2021
Israel's army says it has recaptured the final two of a six man Palestinian group who tunnelled out of a high-security jail almost two weeks ago. The pair - both members of militant group Islamic Jihad - were arrested after being surrounded by security forces in the West Bank city of Jenin, Israel's Defense Forces said ... .
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‘I believe in science’: Sarah Palin says she won’t get Covid jab because she’s already protected against virus
The Independent 18 Sep 2021
Former governor of Alaska and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has revealed that she has not been vaccinated against Covid-19 because she believes “in science” ... .
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SpaceX's trailblazing tourist trip to orbit ends with splashdown in the Atlantic
Hindustan Times 19 Sep 2021
Four space tourists safely ended their trailblazing trip to orbit Saturday with a splashdown in the Atlantic off the Florida coast. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the ocean just before sunset, not far from where their chartered flight began three days earlier ... Within a few minutes, a pair of SpaceX boats pulled up alongside the bobbing capsule.
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House Democrats are scared to tax billionaires – that’s a costly mistake
The Guardian 19 Sep 2021photo: US Navy / Michael B. Zingaro
France accuses Australia, US of ‘lying’ over submarine deal
Al Jazeera 18 Sep 2021
France has accused longtime allies Australia and the United States of lying over a security pact that saw the Australian government scrap a contract to buy French submarines in favour of US vessels. “There has been lying, duplicity, a major breach of trust and contempt,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian alleged on Saturday ... .
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Putin's party set to retain parliament majority after polls
Manila Standard Today 19 Sep 2021
Russian President Vladimir Putin's party was set Sunday to retain a majority in parliament on the last day of three-day elections in which most Kremlin critics were barred from the ballot ... AFP ... "These essentially aren't elections ... The elections were also marred by claims of censorship and rampant ballot stuffing ... .
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Venezuela's Maduro sees legitimacy challenged in rare trip abroad
Urdu Point 18 Sep 2021
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro hit back Saturday at challenges to his legitimacy as he attended a regional summit in his first trip abroad since the United States accused him of drug trafficking ... Maduro showed up at the last minute at a meeting of the 33-member Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, or CELAC ... ....
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Lebanon seizes 20 tons of ammonium nitrate
Anadolu Agency 18 Sep 2021
Lebanese security forces seized a truck carrying 20 tons of ammonium nitrate in the eastern Bekaa valley, according to the country’s interior minister on Saturday. "Investigations have begun and the security forces are pursuing those involved to arrest them,” Bassam Mawlawi told reporters, without giving details about their identities.
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Myanmar military convoy hit by roadside bomb near Yangon
Straits Times 19 Sep 2021
YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar anti-junta dissidents have carried out a bomb attack on security forces near Yangon, with several killed in an ensuing firefight, the military and media said ... "Some terrorists were (killed), one of them was wounded.". Local media reported at least two dissidents were killed and one arrested ... More on this topic. � ....
