Almost 30,000 new homes built in 2022, CSO finds
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A total of 29,851 residential units were completed in 2022. This includes 9,148 dwellings built in the forth quarter of the year.

Greta or Zelensky? Who Will Scoop This Year’s Oscars?
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Although Seán Penn has loaned Zelensky his Oscar, Clown Prince Zelensky no doubt should have one of his own, Declan Hayes writes.

Because NATO’s Oscar season looms, it is time to predict who will win this year’s prizes. Although some stray Holywood D listers now lead the field, it is time for a change of pace, to expand the net to include those whose acting abilities have served NATO better than any such D listers over the last year.

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Layoffs and firings: German software-maker SAP to cut thousands of jobs
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Germany's enterprise application software-maker SAP will cut 3,000 jobs, or 2.5 per cent of its total workforce globally.

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South Su­dan’s dis­placed hope pope’s vis­it will bring peace
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There are 2.2 mil­lion in­ter­nal­ly dis­placed peo­ple in South Su­dan as a civ­il war that be­gan in 2013 con­tin­ues to sim­mer.
Published On 26 Jan 2023

Ukraine wakes up to dead­ly at­tacks af­ter se­cur­ing bat­tle tanks
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At least one man killed in Kyiv, its may­or says, a day af­ter Rus­sia warned West­ern tank de­liv­er­ies sig­nal an es­ca­la­tion.
Published On 26 Jan 2023

Mid­dle East round-up: Turkey, Swe­den, NATO and the Quran
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Here’s a round-up of Al Jazeera’s Mid­dle East cov­er­age this week.
Published On 26 Jan 2023

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Ethiopia’s PM Abiy Ahmed in Su­dan on first vis­it since 2021 coup
Abiy last vis­it­ed Su­dan in Au­gust 2020, dur­ing the tran­si­tion­al gov­ern­ment of for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Ab­dal­la Ham­dok.
Published On 26 Jan 2023

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Families of Dead Soldiers Silenced by Ukrainian Security Forces

Relatives of Transcarpathian soldiers who were killed after being mobilized into the Ukrainian armed forces are being forbidden from talking about it on social media, according to Ripost.

After making a heartfelt plea on Facebook for any news about her son, one mother received a visit from soldiers dressed as civilians, who told her to delete the post and that “if there was something to report, the military would notify her.” (RIA)

Many ethnic Hungarians have been mobilized following mass losses in Soledar, with reports of hundreds of bodies of dead soldiers found on the border of Ukraine and Hungary left unburied for over a month as Kiev struggles with the fallout.

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❗️A Massive Fire is Ripping Through a Car Showroom in Surat, India

Firefighters are on the scene to tackle the blaze.

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Raided by The FBI for Being Socialist, with Omali Yeshitela
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Today, “Behind The Headlines” host Lee Camp speaks to Omali Yeshitela, a man raided by the FBI for the crime of being a black socialist. Together, the two discuss the revolutionary black liberation movement, U.S. imperialism, racism, and the corruption of the two-party system.

In August of last year, the FBI raided the offices of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), with agents using flash-bang grenades at 5 am on a Friday to startle and arrest individuals inside its headquarters.

Yeshitela helped found the APSP in 1972, at a time when the Black Liberation movement was being similarly quashed by government forces. The group’s mission is to advocate for the rights and self-determination of African p...

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Morgan Stanley Fines Employees Up To $1mn For WhatsApp

American bank Morgan Stanley has fined employees between several thousand to
more than $1 million for conducting work correspondence on WhatsApp and other instant messengers, the Financial Times reports.

Morgan Stanley paid $200 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission and Futures Trading Commission a year ago for employees using unauthorized messengers for business correspondence.

US regulators require banks to ensure that employees' messages are properly stored. Instant messengers such as WhatsApp and Signal can automatically delete information after a certain period of time.

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Man (89) who died after alleged assault in hospital ‘meant world to family’, funeral hears
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Matthew Healy, from the Co Cork town of Berrings, was a patient at Mercy University Hospital and died in the early hours of Sunday.

Live: Burke faces fine if he fails to purge contempt; prisoner found dead in Castlerea
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Your afternoon update: Enoch Burke is to be fined €700 for every day he refuses to comply with a court order to stay away from Wilson's Hospital School; and an inmate was found dead at Castlerea Prison on Thursday morning.

Swiss president weighs in on arms shipments to Kiev
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The ban on re-exporting weapons should remain in place despite the Ukraine conflict, Alain Berset insists

Switzerland should not allow other countries to re-export Swiss-made armaments to Ukraine, due to its long-standing neutrality policy, President Alain Berset said on Wednesday.

Earlier in the week, a parliamentary committee supported a motion to remove a legislative barrier to re-exporting Swiss-made weapons to Kiev.

Speaking to the TV channel RTS, Berset, who holds the one-year rotating presidency of the Confederation, argued that “the question of neutrality is essential for our country”. While noting t...

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Egyptian Economic Crisis Has Hit Syrian-Owned Businesses
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Syrians in Egypt face financial hardship and even violence as the suffering Egyptians lose patience.

When the U.S.-NATO attack on Syria for regime change began in 2011, many Syrians began to leave the country for safer areas. After the Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Mursi won in a U.S. manipulated election, many Syrians who were followers of the Muslim Brotherhood, packed up and left for Egypt.

According to the 2018 Pew research center data, more than 150,000 Syrians are living in Egypt and Libya. Egypt’s economy is the s...

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Japan's 300 schools, universities receive bomb, death threats; panic ensues
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Hundreds of schools as well as universities across Japan received fax messages with bomb and death threats on Wednesday, stoking panic and subseque

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United States arms exports to foreign governments rose 49% in fiscal 2022
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The US State Department said on Wednesday (January 25) that the sales of military equipment to foreign governments increased 49 per cent to $205.6

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Fight­ing on two fronts: Ze­len­skyy bat­tles cor­rup­tion and Rus­sia
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Ukraine restarts the war on graft, and West­ern na­tions promise bat­tle tanks. Could the two events be linked?
Published On 26 Jan 2023