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Oct

01

2020

Police impose emergency law in Indian village as gang-rape victim’s cremation sparks clashes

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SAURABH SHARMA and ALASDAIR PAL INDIAN police have imposed emergency laws in a village where a woman from the lowest rung of the country's caste system was allegedly raped and killed, barring gatherings of more than five people after clashes erupted following her cremation. The 19-year-old victim died from her injuries on Tuesday, having been attacked and gang-raped on September 14 in a field near her home in Hathras district, 100 km (62 miles) from Delhi, authorities said. Police have arrested four men in connection with the crime. Clashes between protesters and police erupted in the district in the northern…

Oct

01

2020

By The African Mirror

Russia and France seek end to fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh

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NALIA BAGIROVA andNVARD HOVHANNISYAN RUSSIA and France stepped up calls for a ceasefire between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces on Thursday as the death toll rose in the heaviest clashes around the Nagorno-Karabakh region since the 1990s. The Kremlin said President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron had discussed steps that the Organization for Security and Co-operation's (OSCE) Minsk group, which mediates in the conflict, could take to end the fighting. Russia has also offered to host the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan for talks on the flare-up of their decades-old conflict in the volatile South Caucasus region.…

Oct

02

2020

By The African Mirror

Trump and wife Melania test positive for COVID-19

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U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that he and his wife Melania have tested positive for COVID-19 and were going into quarantine, upending the race for the White House. "We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!" the president said in a late-night tweet. Trump, 74, is at high risk for the deadly virus both because of his age and because he is considered overweight. He has remained in good health during his time in office but is not known to exercise regularly or to follow a healthy diet. The results came after…

Oct

02

2020

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Back in the Security Chamber after 6 months!

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MEMBERS of the United Nations Security Council returned back to the Security Chamber for the first time since the outbreak of COVID-19. An absence of almost 6 months.From L to R. Official of German Mission then Ambassadors of Dominican Republic, Ambassador of Indonesia, Ambassador of Niger( President of SC In September) Ambassador of Russian Federation( President of SC for October ) Ambassador of Saint Vincent and the Grenadine(President of SC for November) and Ambassador of South Africa( President of SC for December 2020).

Oct

06

2020

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Trump faces backlash for removing mask on return to White House

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ALEXANDRA ALPER and DEENA BEASLEY U.S. President Donald Trump has faced a fresh backlash for removing his mask when he returned to the White House and urging Americans not to fear the COVID-19 disease that has killed more than 209,000 people in the country and put him in hospital. Trump arrived at the White House in a made-for-television spectacle in which he descended from his Marine One helicopter wearing a white surgical mask only to remove it as he posed, saluting and waving, on the mansion's South Portico. "Don't let it dominate you. Don't be afraid of it," Trump said…

Oct

06

2020

By The African Mirror

‘Queen of Crime’ Christie’s first detective novel marks centenary

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SARAH MILLS IT was partly thanks to a bet with her sister that Agatha Christie wrote her first detective novel, and 100 years since it was published she is as popular as ever. Christie was 30 when in February 1920 "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" was serialised in a British newspaper. The book was published in America in October and the following year in Britain. Now, according to Guinness World Records, Christie is the world's best-selling fiction writer and her crime novels have sold 2 billion copies. "She did that as a woman at the time when women did not…

Oct

06

2020

By The African Mirror

Azeris and Armenians say civilian areas attacked, NATO seeks ceasefire

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NVARD HOVHANNISYAN and NAILIA BAGIVORA ARMENIA and Azerbaijan accused each other on Monday of attacking civilian areas on the ninth day of the deadliest fighting in the South Caucasus region for more than 25 years. NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg added his voice to calls for an immediate end to the clashes over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountain enclave that belongs to Azerbaijan under international law but is populated and governed by ethnic Armenians. But prospects for a ceasefire appeared remote after the fighting intensified over the weekend and following uncompromising comments by Azeri President Ilham Aliyev. In an address to the nation…

Oct

05

2020

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Concerned about Channel crossings, UK minister vows to toughen asylum rules

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ESTELLE SHIRBON BRITAIN’S interior minister has pledged to reform what she described as a broken asylum system and to stop people arriving through illegal routes from making "endless legal claims to remain in our country". Home Secretary Priti Patel, who presents herself as tough on issues of law, order and immigration, has denounced as unacceptable a rise seen during the summer in the number of small boats carrying migrants across the Channel from France. The numbers attempting the crossing, about 5,000 so far this year, are tiny compared with migrant flows in many other parts of the world, and human…

Oct

05

2020

By The African Mirror

Five bodies found in northern Italy after violent storms

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FIVE bodies were discovered in northwestern Italy, including four washed up on the shore close to the border with France, officials said, in deaths thought to be caused by severe storms in the region. At least some of the corpses might have been swept down the coast from France. Officials said on Saturday that two people died and nine were missing after fierce rains and strong winds lashed the border areas linking the two countries since Friday. Four of the bodies were found on a stretch of coast between the border town of Ventimiglia and Santo Stefano al Mare, police…

Oct

05

2020

By The African Mirror

Azerbaijan’s leader says no end to fighting until Armenia sets pullout timetable

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NAILIA BAGIVORA and NVARD HOVHANNISYAN AZERBAIJAN’S President Ilham Aliyev has demanded that Armenia set a timetable for withdrawing from the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding Azeri territories, and said Azerbaijan would not cease military action until that happened. In a televised address to the nation, Aliyev said Azeri forces were advancing in a week-long offensive to retake lands that they lost to ethnic Armenians in the 1990s. "The Azeri soldier is chasing them like a dog, the Azeri soldier is standing at their posts, we have taken their weaponry, we are carrying out the mission of liberation," he declared. The…