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Four security force members were killed in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, on Tuesday, the country’s Interior Ministry said, after thousands of supporters of imprisoned ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan defied a police lockdown to march in the city center. Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets as the protesters broke through a barricade of shipping containers blocking off the national capital. The government warned that security forces would respond with live gunfire if protesters used weapons against them. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said four members of the paramilitary Rangers force died after being “run over by a vehicle.” There were no claims of responsibility for…

China has been stepping up its involvement in the Myanmar conflict as rebels continue to advance, with Beijing recently asking the junta to allow Chinese private military corporations to operate within the neighboring country. Myanmar’s junta is reportedly still reviewing the proposal. After nearly four years of conflict, Myanmar’s resistance forces now control over half of the country and occupy key trade routes on the Myanmar-China border. The junta has also suffered several military defeats in the past 12 months, raising alarm in Beijing. “China has billions of dollars of geo-strategic assets in Myanmar, including the China-Myanmar pipeline project, which…

Senegal’s ruling party, PASTEF, secured an overwhelming parliamentary majority following the country’s legislative election held earlier this month. PASTEF won 130 of 165 seats, up from the 56 it held before the vote, according to provisional results announced by the national vote-counting commission last week. The win gives President Bassirou Diomaye Faye a clear mandate to implement the ambitious reforms he promised during the election campaign. Elected in March on an anti-establishment platform, Diomaye dissolved the opposition-led Parliament to allow the early elections. Will Senegal’s Diomaye deliver? Rough reform outline Diomaye, who at 44 is Africa’s youngest elected leader, pledged economic transformation, social justice and anti-corruption reforms under the Senegal…

China’s Defense Minister Dong Jun has been placed under investigation for corruption, British newspaper Financial Times (FT) reported on Wednesday. If confirmed, Dong would be the third consecutive serving or former Chinese defense minister to be investigated for alleged corruption. According to FT, the investigation was part of a broader probe into military corruption. Last week, Dong declined to meet US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during a meeting of defense ministers in Laos, citing US actions over Taiwan. Chinese President Xi Jinping has overseen a sweeping anti-corruption purge in the military over the past yearImage: Adriano Machado/REUTERS Third defense minister investigated China’s military…

  Hold me back or you’ll see! Despite being hampered by a trial for charges of embezzling EU Parliament funds in a fake jobs scheme – a case that could render her banned from running for public office – far-right leader Marine Le Pen put herself back at the center of the political game on Monday, November 25, amid the unfolding budget tragedy. She was the first to meet with officials to voice her grievances and the first to publicly make her demands on the steps of the prime minister’s office. Le Pen relishes her role as kingmaker, holding the…

“I will never make my story yet another case of pain pornography: what happened to me and how I will tell it only in my small circle of close people.” This is how Francesca Ghio, the Genoese opposition city councilor, clarifies it yesterday The councilor who denounced the violence in the classroom: “My story to give everyone a voice” https://genova.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/11/27/news/francesca_ghio_violenza_12_anni_intervista_genova-423740958/?rss

The rise of ketamine addiction in the UK – podcast Journalist Elle Hunt and recovered addict Jack Curran talk about the rise of ketamine use in Britain and its sometimes devastating impact Ketamine use in England and Wales has doubled since 2016. The increase, as journalist Elle Hunt explains, is especially notable among young people. And it seems to have taken health services by surprise, with practitioners often unable to provide the right treatment for the particular challenges posed by addiction to ketamine. Continue reading… The rise of ketamine addiction in the UK – podcast https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/nov/27/the-rise-of-ketamine-addiction-in-the-uk-podcast

A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell on November 26, 2024, in New York City. Timothy A. Clary | Afp | Getty ImagesU.S. stock futures were little changed on Wednesday morning as traders await the release of the Federal Reserve’s favorite inflation gauge.Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 30 points, or 0.07%. Meanwhile, S&P 500 futures flickered near the flatline, while Nasdaq-100 futures fell 0.11%.In other corporate news, several companies released their quarterly results. Dell Technologies tumbled 11% in extended trading as the company issued a disappointing forecast…

Romanian presidential candidate Calin Georgescu has millions of likes on TikTok and hundreds of thousands of followers. He ran a successful social media campaign to emerge victorious in the first round of the country’s presidential elections. ADVERTISEMENTRomania is reeling from the unexpected rise of far-right extremist Calin Georgescu who won Sunday’s first round of the presidential elections as an independent. His rise went unnoticed by the political system – with his victory representing the first time a fringe candidate won a national election solely through a sophisticated media campaign. Georgescu rode a wave of public discontentment with the political establishment…

Mark Twain wrote that “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.” A lie has gone around Spain several times, pushed by complicit media. This anomaly has triggered, with the invaluable collaboration of the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid and the Supreme Court, the accusation of the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, investigated for an alleged crime of revealing secrets consisting of unmasking a rude hoax with data of an ongoing judicial procedure. The supposedly criminal action consisted of destroying a lie with exact information that had previously been…