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Biden vows to replace US government fleet with electric vehicles
Biden says he wants to close ‘loopholes’ that allow key parts like engines, steel and glass to be manufactured abroad.
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Indian Muslim comic in jail for weeks for jokes he did not tell
Munawar Faruqui held in jail for 25 days despite police admitting he was charged for jokes he was ‘going to’ crack.
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Saudi Arabia’s ‘Davos of the Desert’ awaits new US policy
Kingdom’s highly anticipated Future Investment Initiative to go online amid ongoing pandemic.
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‘Demographic crisis’: Poland population shrinking under pandemic
As deaths spike at rates not seen since World War II, births are declining.
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Opinion
Uganda ends house arrest of opposition leader Bobi Wine
The withdrawal of security forces comes a day after a court termed his confinement since January 14 election ‘unlawful’.
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Netherlands rocked by third night of rioting over COVID curfew
Almost 500 people arrested in three days of unrest, with anger rising over lockdown measures.
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UNPACK THE PAST
This Land Is … whose land?: The history of Woody Guthrie’s song
JLo’s inauguration performance of This Land Is Your Land was meant to promote ‘unity’, but is it a ‘settler anthem’?
