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ERITREAN REFUGEES/ETHIOPIA – Food has run out for Eritrean refugees in Tigray camps, UN warns (Al Jazeera)

The United Nations has sounded the alarm over the severe effect of food shortages on the nearly 100,000 Eritrean refugees sheltering in camps in...

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION – Iraqi Kurdish authorities accused of torturing jailed journalist (Dana Taib Menmy, Al Jazeera)

Imprisoned Kurdish journalist Sherwan Amin Sherwani has been held in solitary confinement for nearly two months and was allegedly tortured by security forces in...

GLOBAL EYE – COVID-19 will increase humanitarian needs in 2021: UN (Al Jazeera)

The coronavirus pandemic is pushing the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance to new highs, according to the United Nations, dramatically increasing...

DATA – Dal quarto potere al “Data Power” (Emilio Misuriello, The Science of Where Magazine)

https://www.thescienceofwheremagazine.it/2020/12/01/dal-quarto-potere-al-data-power/

IRAN – Iran’s Zarif warns of ‘misinformation’ over scientist’s killing (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned of a “targeted misinformation campaign and psychological war” following the assassination of the country’s top nuclear...

LIBERIA – Liberia’s Weah might be in for a rude awakening at the polls (Robtel Neajai Pailey, Al Jazeera)

In a confusing about-face last month, Liberia’s Supreme Court undermined its own ruling that a controversial referendum, scheduled for December 8 alongside the nation-wide...

GLOBAL EYE – How to defuse the human waste time bomb in low-income countries (Izabella Koziell, Al Jazeera)

Half of the world flushes away their sewage without a second thought as to where it goes. But for the other half of the...

RUSSIA/KURIL ISLANDS/JAPAN – Russia deploys advanced S-300 missiles to disputed chain of islands near Japan (Al Arabiya)

Russia said on Tuesday it had deployed a number of its new S-300V4 missile defense systems for combat duty on a disputed chain of...

IRAN – Iran parliament’s plan to end UN nuclear inspections hits opposition (Al Arabiya)

The Iranian parliament’s backing on Tuesday of a plan to end nuclear inspections after the assassination of the country’s top nuclear scientist has met immediate opposition from the...

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