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North Korea amends constitution on nuclear policy, cites US 'provocations'
Hong Kong Standard 28 Sep 2023
North Korea has adopted a constitutional amendment to enshrine its policy on nuclear force, state media reported on Thursday, as the country's leader pledged to accelerate production of nuclear weapons to deter what he called U.S. provocations ... DPRK are the initials of the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ... .
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House GOP eyes bribery against Biden
The Buffalo News 28 Sep 2023
WASHINGTON — Top House Republicans are eyeing potential impeachment charges of bribery and abuse of power against President Biden, according to senior House officials familiar with their plans, as they push forward with an inquiry that seeks to tie him to his son's foreign business dealings.
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US: Donald Trump skips GOP debate; rivals take him on directly
Khaleejtimes 28 Sep 2023
Several of Donald Trump’s rivals stepped up their attacks against him in Wednesday’s second Republican presidential debate, urgently trying to dent the former president's commanding primary lead during an event that often seemed like an undercard without him ... “He should be on this stage tonight,” said Florida Gov ... Former New Jersey Gov ... ALSO READ ... .
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Nearly half of Karabakh’s population seeks refuge in Armenia
Dawn 28 Sep 2023
GORIS ... Yerevan’s attempts to absorb the sea of homeless and hungry ethnic Armenians come with officials still trying to identify the whereabouts of more than 100 people reported missing in a fuel depot blast Monday that claimed 68 lives ... ‘War crime’ ... It was not immediately clear what charges Vardanyan might potentially face ... ‘They come and go’ ... .
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Russia accuses Ukraine’s Western allies of helping attack its Black Sea Fleet headquarters
Wtop 27 Sep 2023
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia on Wednesday accused Ukraine’s Western allies of helping plan and conduct last week’s missile strike on the Black Sea Fleet’s headquarters in annexed Crimea ... Moscow has repeatedly claimed that the U.S ... The accusation came the day after video appeared to show the fleet’s commander, Adm ... ___ ... ___ ... Source .
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Travis King back in US custody months after crossing into North Korea
ABC7 27 Sep 2023
LONDON -- Travis King, the American soldier who two months ago crossed into North Korea, is back in U.S. custody, a U.S. official has confirmed. "U.S. officials have secured the return of Private Travis King from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)," Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen ... This is a developing story ... .
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Negligence blamed for catastrophic fire in Iraq's Nineveh
The New Arab 27 Sep 2023
At least 120 people lost their lives, and 100 others were injured late on Tuesday night when a fire broke out at a wedding in Hamdaniyah, also known as Qaraqosh, the largest Christian town in Nineveh province ... "The latest figures from the Hamdaniyah wedding fire show 93 martyrs, with 100 wounded," he said ... It's truly saddening and heart-wrenching.
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Study pinpoints which areas of New York City are sinking, rising
Phys Dot Org 27 Sep 2023
While the elevation changes seem small—fractions of inches per year—they can enhance or diminish local flood risk linked to sea level rise ... Local changes ... "I'm intrigued by the potential of using high-resolution InSAR to measure these kinds of relatively short-lived environmental modifications associated with uplift," Kopp said ... More information ... DOI.
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Azerbaijan arrests former Nagorno-Karabakh minister as exodus tops 50,000
RTE 27 Sep 2023
A former head of the breakaway ethnic Armenian government in Nagorno-Karabakh has been arrested by Azerbaijan. Ruben Vardanyan was detained as he tried to escape into Armenia as part of an exodus of tens of thousands of people that has triggered a humanitarian crisis ... Refugees with their belongings at a Red Cross centre on the border with Armenia ... .
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UN warns of ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ in growing nuclear arms race
Al Jazeera 27 Sep 2023
list 3 of 3Talks between North Korea’s Kim and Putin end in Russia ... end of list ... While the total number of nuclear warheads held by Britain, China, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia and the United States had fallen by about 1.6 percent to 12,512 over the previous year, SIPRI said the declining trend was on the cusp of a reversal. .
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Human rights court to hear case against 33 European countries
RTE 27 Sep 2023
The European Court of Human Rights is due to hear evidence today in a case taken by a group of Portuguese young people against 33 European countries ... The case will be heard before the court in Strasbourg today ... They want the court to issue a legally binding ruling, demanding that the countries in question urgently act ... Latest climate news ... .
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Trump committed fraud for years, judge rules
Jamaica Observer 27 Sep 2023
NEW YORK, United States (AP) — A judge ruled Tuesday that Donald Trump committed fraud for years while building the real estate empire that catapulted him to fame and the White House ... Trump has long insisted he did nothing wrong ... "In defendants' world ... "That is a fantasy world, not the real world." ... .
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Costa Rica president orders state of emergency amid surge of migrants heading to the US
CNN 27 Sep 2023
Costa Rica’s president has ordered a state of emergency, citing a surge of migrants crossing through the country toward the United States. “The people that arrive are passing across Costa Rica trying to get to the United States, basically,” President Rodrigo Chaves told a press conference Tuesday ... .
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The EU’s great power delusions
New Statesman 28 Sep 2023
In the future, Paul Kennedy wrote 35 years ago, a United States in decline would be relegated to the place of “a significant power in a multipolar world” ... There is growing agreement about this reordering of the world among the powerful ... Even the investment bank Morgan Stanley recently published a “Practical Guide to the Multipolar World” ... [See also ... .
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Brazil sets up task force for unprecedented drought in Amazon -minister
Reuters 28 Sep 2023
Low river levels and hotter waters have killed masses of fish seen floating on river surfaces, contaminating the drinking water, she said ... Read Next ... A group of 190 investors have joined the Nature Action 100 initiative which aims to push the world's leading companies to do more to protect and restore nature and ecosystems.September 26, 2023.