Daily Archives: December 25, 2020

2020-12-25: News Headlines

teleSUR (2020-12-24). Venezuela Takes Ivan Duque's Blatant Xenophobia to the UN. telesurenglish.net The Bolivarian government of Venezuela has made a formal denouncement to the United Nations on the discriminatory statements made by Colombia's President Ivan Duque about banning Venezuelan migrants from receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. | RELATED: | "This is terrible discrimination, a burden of racism and hatred against Venezuelan migrants in Colombia. We cannot allow it, we have made our strong protest and complaint t…

commondreams (2020-12-24). Border Patrol Surveils and Harasses Humanitarian Aid Station on Christmas Eve, Telling Volunteers They are Seeking a Warrant to Raid. commondreams.org ______________________________…

Kenny Stancil, staff writer (2020-12-24). 'Complete Disregard for Human Life': US Agents Threaten Christmas Eve Raid Against Humanitarians Giving Aid to Refugees Near Border. commondreams.org One volunteer noted the cruel irony of such actions "on the eve of a holiday meant to celebrate hospitality towards travelers from distant lands." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/border_patrol.jpg

RT (2020-12-24). Bullseye: AK-47 manufacturer releases spectacular NIGHT-TIME VIDEO of its newest guided anti-aircraft missile test. rt.com Kalashnikov, the maker of AK-47 assault rifle, has carried out a successful test of its brand new Strela (arrow) guided anti-aircraft missile, sharing an impressive clip of a fiery projectile finding its target in the dark skies. | The footage, edited to a dramatic soundtrack, showed the Strela-10M anti-aircraft system on tracked chassis in action at the Donguz range in Russia's Orenburg Region on the border with Kazakhstan. | During the night-time tests, the system employed Kalashnikov's state-of-the-art Strela-9M333 guided missiles to eliminate several targets, which were simulating enemy projectiles and air…

Peoples Dispatch (2020-12-24). Migrants face uncertainty after fire in camp in Bosnia. peoplesdispatch.org A large fire broke out in the Lipa refugee camp, in northwest Bosnia and Herzegovina which hosts close to 1,200 migrants on December 23. There are no injuries or casualties but most of the infrastructure has been destroyed.

news.un (2020-12-24). Bosnia and Herzegovina: Thousands of migrants lose shelter, after camp destroyed in fire. news.un.org The closure and subsequent fire, on Wednesday, at a migrant camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina has left thousands of migrants without shelter and protection, amid plummeting winter temperatures, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) has reported.

Melanie McFarland (2020-12-24). Forget "The Stand" — "Alice in Borderland" is the wild dystopian ride we've been waiting for. salon.com This Japanese action-thriller is brutal. It also asks us to think about how we want to live, not just survive…

Pavan Kulkarni (2020-12-24). Sudan and Ethiopia fail to reach an agreement on border demarcation. peoplesdispatch.org The meeting between the authorities of the two countries to demarcate the land border came a week after the attack on a Sudanese army patrol by Ethiopian forces on December 15. The failure of talks may lead to more clashes…

Online News Editor (2020-12-24). Thousands of European truckers stranded in UK resigned to missing Christmas. laprensalatina.com London, Dec 24 (efe-epa).- Thousands of European truck drivers were still waiting near Dover on Thursday to cross the English Channel after the French government ordered the border to be closed for two days over fears of a new variant of the coronavirus. The British army and French firefighters have been enlisted to administer thousands …

Johnnie Lewis (2020-12-23). COVID and prisons / No walls, no borders in the workers' struggle. workers.org Texas "It's a nonviolent protest going on right now because the officers [in an unnamed Texas prison], in the middle of the coronavirus, have refused us electricity for several hours, no showers or anything." The voice is that of an incarcerated human being on video taken inside a Texas prison. . . . |

Max Parry (2020-12-23). Don't Blame the Soviets for the War in Nagorno-Karabakh. dissidentvoice.org In the final week of September, an Azerbaijani offensive renewed hostilities in the perennial armed conflict and territorial dispute in the South Caucasus between Armenia and its neighbor over the Nagorno-Karabakh ("Mountainous Karabakh") region. By October, the clashes had escalated past the state border between Azerbaijan and the internationally-unrecognized Republic of Artsakh which suffered heavy …

Abayomi Azikiwe (2020-12-23). The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Project (GERD) and the Quest for African Unity. globalresearch.ca Since November 4, the focus of the international community in their observations of the internal conflict in Ethiopia has largely been centered on the central government's suppression of a rebellion against its authority in the northern region of Tigray. | Within …

The Canary (2020-12-22). Efforts continue to resolve Channel crossing coronavirus crisis. thecanary.co Crisis talks with France will continue in an effort to resume trade flows across the Channel amid warnings that the border must be running again by Wednesday to avoid disruption to food supplies.More than 1,500 lorries are backed up in Kent, unable to make the crossing to France, with drivers having spent a second night sleeping in their cabs.Home secretary Priti Patel said the government is "speaking constantly" with France to achieve a resolution "in both our interests" to get freight moving again. And she defended the government's handling of the pandemic, insisting ministers had been "ahead of the curve" in t…

MEE and agencies (2020-12-22). US offers mediation between Lebanon and Israel following stalemate. middleeasteye.net US offers mediation between Lebanon and Israel following stalemate | Unprecedented talks over a long-running maritime border dispute have yet to make progress | Tue, 12/22/2020 – 15: 00 | The southernmost stretch of Lebanese coastline, by the town of Naqura, near the border with Israel (AFP) | US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday expressed Washington's readiness to mediate in the n…