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• Series of disasters unfolding across Indonesia January 18, 2021
  As Indonesia continues to count the number of dead from last week's earthquake on Sulawesi island, search and rescue teams are being stretched to breaking point, as they grapple with a series of disasters unfolding across the country.
• Analysis: Former revolutionary begins sixth term with a lesson for other authoritarians January 18, 2021
  Speaking to reporters after casting her ballot in the Ugandan capital Kampala last week, one local resident was overjoyed to have voted for opposition leader Bobi Wine.
• Countries push ahead with Chinese vaccines despite lower efficacy rate January 18, 2021
  • Live updates: Australia's border restrictions likely to remain for most of 2021 • Why teachers are being sent to the Covid frontlines, some without PPE or even pay
• Navalny arrested on his return to Moscow January 17, 2021
  Russia's leading Kremlin critic, Alexey Navalny, was detained by local police, moments after his return to the country and five months after he was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok. CNN's Frederik Pleitgen reports Navalny had originally been scheduled to land at Vnukovo airport, where a crowd of hundreds of supporters and journalists waited. CNN […]
• Tim Cook: Why I kicked Parler off Apple's App Store January 17, 2021
  Apple, along with Amazon and Google, effectively kicked Parler off the internet in the wake of the January 6 US Capitol siege. Despite criticism that Big Tech wields too much power over speech, Apple CEO Tim Cook defended his decision.
• UK 'enormously less attractive' as travel gateway to Europe January 17, 2021
  When the UK Prime Minister addressed the nation on December 20, the news was bad enough: Christmas was canceled.
• Why you won't find Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson on British TV January 16, 2021
  The insurrection at the US Capitol has sparked a political firestorm and unnerved millions of Americans. It has also unleashed a wave of criticism over the role played by pro-Trump media outlets such as Fox News, which fed lies and conspiracy theories about the election to angry supporters of the president for weeks.
• It's 53% alcohol and tastes like fire. Here's how this liquor brand took over China January 15, 2021
  When Costco opened its first store in China in 2019, it wasn't just the hot rotisserie chickens and discounted Birkin bags that lured frenzied crowds. A fiery, throat-tingling liquor called Kweichow Moutai also flew off shelves.
• James Murdoch criticizes 'media property owners' who have 'unleashed insidious' forces with election denialism claims January 15, 2021
  James Murdoch, the youngest son of billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch, assailed "media property owners" and outlets that have promoted disinformation and conspiracy theories about the results of the 2020 election.