On Tuesday, October 27, the Nicaraguan National Assembly, dominated by the Sandinista party machine, approved the “Special Cybercrimes Law”. The law is better known as the “Gag Law”. It’s declared purpose is to protect public freedoms and regulate new technologies and cyberspace. |
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister appealed Thursday for a stop, amid a huge spike in the country’s coronavirus infections, to a week of angry protests against a high court ruling that tightens already strict abortion laws. Mateusz Morawiecki said the dispute should be resolved through.... |
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PARIS/NICE (REUTERS, AFP) - A knife-wielding Tunisian man shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church in the French city of Nice before being shot and taken away by police on Thursday (Oct 29). French President Emmanuel Macron said France would.... |
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came into office with the solemn declaration of “Zero Tolerance for Corruption”. He is often quoted to have said that, corruption was as old as Adam. It is important to state that corruption in Ghana did not begin in the Fourth Republic. In fact, it started before the first republic. |
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RAMALLAH, Thursday, October 29, 2020 (WAFA) Palestine today demanded the United Nations to pressurize Israel to return a stolen rare Byzantine-era baptismal font. Palestinian Permanent Delegate Ambassador to UNESCO Mounir Anastas demanded that the UN organization’s Committee of the Meeting of States.... |
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Security forces guard the area after a reported knife attack at Notre Dame church, in Nice on October 29, 2020 Reuters.
A knife-wielding attacker shouting "Allahu Akbar" beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a suspected terrorist act at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday,.... |
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A debate is roiling the Catholic Church over the role clergy and nuns play in partisan politics ahead of Tuesday’s elections. On Sunday, three nuns held rosaries and a Bible behind President Trump at a rally in Ohio. Media outlets quickly dubbed the sisters of the Children of Mary religious community the “MAGA nuns. |
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Regeneron says its COVID-19 drug cut patient visits. Within hours of the Nice attack, police killed a man who had threatened passersby with a handgun in Montfavet, near the southern French city of Avignon. He was also shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest), according to radio station Europe 1. |
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Lately, I have been putting an embarrassing amount of thought into notions like jinxes and knocking on wood. The polls for Joe Biden look good, but in 2020, any hint of optimism feels dangerously naïve, and my brain has been working overtime in search of potential doom. |
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — New protests broke out in Polish cities late Thursday against a recent high court ruling that tightens already strict abortion laws, with participants ignoring an appeal by Poland’s prime minister to desist due to pandemic restrictions as COVID-19 infections hit a huge spike. |
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At least three people have died after Hurricane Zeta struck southern US states, knocking out power to more than two million homes and businesses. Officials said life-threatening conditions would last into Thursday, with Zeta crossing the mid-Atlantic states as a tropical storm before moving offshore around Delaware and southern New Jersey. |
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