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Schumer: Trump impeachment trial to begin week of Feb. 8
The Independent 23 Jan 2021
Opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial for Donald Trump over the Capitol riot will begin the week of Feb. 8, the first time a former president will face such charges after leaving office ... “We all want to put this awful chapter in our nation’s history behind us,” Schumer said about the deadly Jan ... And that is what this trial will provide.” ... ....
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If Words Have Consequences, Biden’s Inaugural Speech Will Be Memorable (Except for This One Glaring Omission)
WorldNews.com 22 Jan 2021
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling. If words have consequences, President Joe Biden’s inauguration speech may be another notable moment in United States history ... Roosevelt’s “We Have Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself,” and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech ... “Today, on this January day, my whole soul is in this....
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Israeli settlers attack Palestinian homes with petrol bombs
Middle East Monitor 22 Jan 2021
Israeli settlers threw petrol bombs at two Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank village of Burin, near Nablus, on Thursday evening, Wafa has reported ... The soldiers then entered the village and opened fire on the villagers ... .......
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Yes, Bernie Sanders is laughing at those viral inauguration memes too
The Spokesman-Review 23 Jan 2021
Sen. Bernie Sanders is feeling the Bern – and the love – after a photo of him sitting alone in his face mask, winter coat and patchwork mittens at Wednesday’s presidential inauguration went viral ... “Yeah, I’ve seen ’em,” the 79-year-old politician said. “What’s been really nice is the woman who made the mittens lives in Essex Junction, Vermont....
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US Senate confirms Lloyd Austin as first Black Pentagon chief
India TV 23 Jan 2021
Lloyd J. Austin, a West Point graduate who rose to the Army’s elite ranks and marched through racial barriers in a 41-year career, won Senate confirmation Friday to become the nation’s first Black secretary of defense ... The only senators who voted against Austin were Republicans Mike Lee of Utah and Josh Hawley of Missouri ... Trump ordered U.S ... .......
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MyPillow guy suing for report he dated Jane Krakowski: 'They have damaged my integrity as a Christian
Raw Story 23 Jan 2021
Controversial MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is worried that a story in a British tabloid for harming his reputation even as companies shun his pillows following his role in pushing the election fraud conspiracy theories that incited the January 6th insurrection by Trump supporters ... "Charles Harder is the attorney," Lindell told The Daily Beast ... ....
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Stop complaining about slow vaccine roll-out, Merkel urges Germans
Metro USA 21 Jan 2021
BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans on Thursday to stop complaining about the slow roll-out of a vaccine against COVID-19 and defended a decision to extend a lockdown as necessary to stem a more aggressive variant of the coronavirus ... Power Women with Victoria Schneps ... Subscribe. ... How can we even complain?” ... 14 ... ....
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Belfast woman who fought slavery remembered
BBC News 23 Jan 2021
Mary Ann McCracken campaigned against slavery at Belfast docks until she was almost 90 years-old. The abolitionist, better known as United Irishman Henry Joy's favourite sister, would warn emigrants headed to America about the slave trade there ... The Mary Ann McCracken Foundation was launched by the Belfast Charitable Society this week ... ....
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Khamenei hints Iran could strike Trump while golfing in ominous Twitter threat
The New Arab 22 Jan 2021
Iran’s Supreme Leader posted a picture on Twitter that appeared to show Donald Trump on a golf course and a stealth bomber overhead. Iran’s Supreme Leader has taken to Twitter to make a thinly veiled threat to former US president Donald Trump over the killing of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani ... Read more ... .......
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Navalny Rules Out Suicide in First Message From Jail
Moscow Times 22 Jan 2021
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has said he does not plan to commit suicide and thanked his supporters in his first statement since being jailed in one of Moscow’s most notorious prisons upon his return to Russia.....
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Russia detains dozens of Navalny supporters at anti-Putin protests
Manila Bulletin 23 Jan 2021
Russian police detained dozens of protesters on Saturday as thousands of supporters of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny took to the streets following his call to protest against President Vladimir Putin’s rule ... (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP) ... He was arrested at Sheremetyevo Airport and jailed ... ....
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Swiss voters favour ‘burqa ban’, poll shows ahead of public vote
Al Jazeera 22 Jan 2021
A clear majority of Swiss voters favour introducing a nationwide prohibition against the wearing of full facial coverings such as burqas and niqabs in public spaces, a poll showed on Friday ... The initiative proposes some exceptions to the ban, including in “places of worship” and for “health reasons” ... Bad idea ... ....
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China authorises coast guard to fire on foreign vessels if needed
Al Jazeera 23 Jan 2021
China has passed a law that for the first time explicitly allows its coast guard to fire on foreign vessels, a move that could make the contested South China Sea and nearby waters more choppy. China has maritime sovereignty disputes with Japan in the East China Sea and with several Southeast Asian countries in the South China Sea ... ....
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Israeli warplanes strike targets in central Syria
ABC News 22 Jan 2021photo: Creative Commons / Kalpak Travel
Turkmenistan: Big on gas, short on options
EurasiaNet 22 Jan 2021
It was supposed to be a banner year for Turkmenistan’s natural gas industry ... The delays are only partly fruit of misfortune ... China National Petroleum Company, or CNPC, secured a $10 billion production-sharing agreement for the field in 2009 – the year the Central Asia-China pipeline came online ... Annual production plateaued at 30 bcm in 2016 ... Plan B ... ....
