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Tanzanian opposition leader returns home after two years in exile

Tanzanian opposition leader and former presidential candidate, Tundu Lissu returned home after more than two years in exile in Europe to a cheering crowd on Wednesday. His home coming came after the government lifted a ban on political rallies. A former lawmaker and a fierce critic of the government, Lissu initially left the country to seek treatment abroad after he…

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Three weeks and 39 mass shootings. This is America in 2023

On Monday, at least seven people were killed in two shootings in Half Moon Bay, California, a small coastal community in the San Francisco Bay area. In Oakland, one person was shot to death and seven other people were injured. Also on Monday, an 11th person succumbed to injuries suffered in the mass shooting in Monterey Park, California, as the…

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Iran slams EU Parliament for proposal to brand Revolutionary Guard as terrorists

Tehran condemned the motion’s call to blacklist the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation, which may imply that Brussels could open the way for sanctions against the militia. On 16 January, the European Parliament presented an “EU response to the demonstrations and executions in Iran”. It hit out at that the crackdown by Iran, including the IRGC,…

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Rishi Sunak’s failure to wear seat belt to be investigated

Lancashire Police are “looking into” Rishi Sunak after he was filmed not wearing a seat belt while a passenger in a moving car. The prime minister has apologised for the incident, saying it was an “error of judgement” to take his seat belt off to film a social media clip. Not wearing a seat belt carries a maximum £500 fine.…

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New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern announces shock resignation before upcoming election

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Thursday she will stand aside for a new leader within weeks, saying she doesn’t believe she has the energy to seek re-election in the October polls. Speaking at a news conference, Ardern said her term would end by February 7, when she expects a new Labour prime minister will be sworn in –…

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Ukraine’s interior ministry leadership killed in helicopter crash

The three main figures in Ukraine’s interior ministry have been killed in a helicopter crash beside a nursery in an eastern suburb of the capital Kyiv. Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky, 42, died alongside his first deputy minister and state secretary. Fourteen people died when the helicopter came down in Brovary around 08:30 local time (06:30 GMT), including one child, authorities…

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Church of England refuses to preside over same-sex marriages

The Church of England announced Wednesday that it will not allow same-sex couples to marry in its churches and that its teachings that marriage is between “one man and one woman for life” would not change. Same-sex couples, however, are welcome to the church to have their civil partnerships blessed, the church said in a statement that followed six years…

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Gambian vice president dies of illness, president says

Gambia’s Vice-President Badara Alieu Joof has died of illness in India, President Adama Barrow said on Wednesday. Joof, 65, was appointed vice president of the West African country in 2022. He had previously served as education minister. Barrow said on Twitter that Joof had died “after a short illness” without providing further detail. The vice president left Gambia about three…

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IMF chief: Growth will bottom out in 2023 and bounce back next year

The International Monetary Fund’s Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told CNBC Tuesday that the days of her institution giving regular global growth downgrades are nearly over. “I don’t see a downgrade now, but growth in 2023 will slow down,” Georgieva said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “Our projection is that we will go by half a percentage point…

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Davos 2023: The 5 key talking points set to dominate the agenda at this year’s World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is gearing up for its annual meeting in the Swiss resort of Davos this week. It will be the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe that the event will return to its former scale last seen in 2020. In the coming week, 50 heads of state and government from a mix of…

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