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Tunisian police are firing tear gas at protesters calling for a garbage dump to be closed

Tunisian police fired tear gas at protesters on Monday who opposed a government agency’s decision to reopen a controlled landfill in the southern city of Agareb, the first test for the government-appointed by President Kais Saied, who took executive power in July. The closure of the controlled landfill in Agareb earlier this year resulted in thousands of tons of household waste accumulating on the streets, markets and even hospitals of Sfax, Tunisia’s second largest city, for about a month.

The African Union and the USA see little opportunity to end the fighting in Ethiopia

The African Union and the United States see a small chance of ending the fighting in Ethiopia, they said Monday when the United Nations warned that the threat of a widening civil war in Ethiopia was “all too real”. The AU envoy for the Horn of Africa, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, and the UN chief for political affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, both briefed the UN Security Council.

Excitement and emotion on board a flight from London to New York as the voyage resumes

On row 22 of a full American Airlines flight from London to New York on Monday morning, Christopher and Zoe Perrotton buckled their seat belts. AA 101 was preparing to take off from London’s Heathrow Airport for New York after the United States on Monday https://www.reuters.com/world/us/international-travellers-head-united-states-flights-reopen . 2021-11-08 lifted travel restrictions for much of the world when the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020.

Fire kills four newborns in Indian hospital

Four out of 40 infants in a state hospital neonatal unit in central India died when a fire swept through the unit late Monday, government officials said, the latest in a string of hospital fires https://www.reuters.com / world / india / indian -hospital-fire-kills-10-injures-seven-2021-11-06 in the country this year that killed dozen. The other newborns at Kamla Nehru Hospital in Madhya Pradesh state, many of whom are underweight, were moved to other wards, the state’s medical education minister Vishvas Kailash Sarang told reporters after the fire was brought under control.

Amnesty says NSO’s Pegasus hacked Palestinian human rights activists’ phones

The cell phones of six Palestinian human rights activists in the Israeli-occupied West Bank were hacked with spyware Pegasus from Israeli technology company NSO Group, Amnesty International and Internet security watchdog Citizen Lab said on Monday. The new findings followed the NSO’s blacklist by the US Department of Commerce last week after claims its spyware was targeted at journalists, human rights activists and government officials in multiple countries.

Brazil’s Bolsonaro sees problems with new spending rules in the Senate

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Monday he was confident the House of Commons would vote to raise a government spending cap and stagger the payment of court-ordered debt, but he anticipates difficulties for passage in the Senate. A constitutional amendment has to be passed twice with at least three-fifths of the votes in each chamber, but this one passed an initial test in the lower house last week with only four votes.

Russia declares lawyer who defended Navalny’s group a “foreign agent”

A leading Russian human rights lawyer defending the anti-corruption foundation of imprisoned opposition politician Alexei Navalny was added to the Justice Ministry’s list of “foreign agents” on Monday. Ivan Pavlov and four other lawyers were added to the 93-name list of human rights activists, journalists, media outlets and others who, according to the ministry, receive foreign funds for political activities.

Bolsonaro joins the center-right PL party to oppose the left-wing Lula. to compete

Brazil’s right-wing extremist President Jair Bolsonaro will join the center-right Liberal Party (PL), party leader Valdemar Costa Neto said on Monday, to join forces ahead of the president’s re-election next year. Bolsonaro confirmed his intention, telling supporters “it could happen as early as this week”.

Nicaragua’s Ortega secures another term, USA threatens to take action

Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ortega-murillo-presidential-couple-with-an-iron-grip-nicaragua-2021-11-05 easily in a fourth term after the repression Episode banned political rivals on Monday showed results that prompted the United States to warn of possible sanctions and press for free and fair elections. Nicaragua’s Supreme Electoral Council said that on almost all ballots counted, a preliminary record Ortega’s Sandinista alliance won with about 76% of the vote.

Poland warns of further major clashes with migrants on the border with Belarus

Thousands of migrants gathered near the Belarusian border on Monday, Polish authorities said as European Union member states demanded more sanctions against Minsk and security forces prepared for further attempts to breach the border. Warsaw has accused Belarus of trying to spark a major confrontation, with video clips showing hundreds of migrants walking towards the Polish border, some trying to break through the fence with spades and other devices.

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