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TECHNOLOGY – Face recognition software making progress at recognizing masked faces (OODA)

The NIST has found that facial recognition algorithms have improved their ability to detect identities even when the individual is wearing a mask. Since...

CHINA – China has done human testing to create biologically enhanced super soldiers, says top U.S. official (OODA)

According to US Intelligence, China is allegedly conducting human testing on members of the People’s Liberation Army, seeking to develop soldiers with biologically enhanced...

CYBER – Facebook failed to put fact-check labels on 60% of the most viral posts containing Georgia election misinformation (OODA)

According to non-profit research group Avaaz, Facebook failed to add fact check labels to the majority of virtual posts containing misinformation about elections, particularly...

CYBER – Darknet Drug Dealers Are Now Selling ‘Pfizer COVID Vaccines’ (OODA)

This week, the UK ordered 40 million doses of the recently approved Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, and the nation is on track to...

INDIA – India’s winter of discontent: Farmers rise up against Modi (Al Jazeera)

A chilly breeze whirls through New Delhi in the mornings and the sun is partly obscured by toxic haze, a marker of another winter...

BANGLADESH/ROHINGYA – Bangladesh ships Rohingya to remote island despite outcry (Al Arabiya)

More than 1,600 Rohingya refugees sailed on Friday from Bangladesh’s southern port of Chittagong for the remote island of Bhasan Char in the Bay...

KASHMIR – What do the local elections mean for Kashmiris? (Rifat Fareed, Al Jazeera)

Kashmiris on Saturday voted in the first local elections since the tumultuous abrogation of the Muslim-majority region’s limited autonomy last August, marking the resumption...

ETHIOPIA – Thousands killed in Ethiopia’s conflict, Tigray side asserts (Al Arabiya)

Militia members from Ethiopia's Amhara region ride on their truck as they head to face the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), in Sanja, Amhara...

INDIA – Indian government considers rolling back agriculture reforms after mass protests (Al Arabiya)

Farmers sit in a tractor at a site of a protest against the newly passed farm bills at Singhu border near Delhi, India, November...

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