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Brazil ejects Bolsonaro. Who is Rishi Sunak? 🇬🇧
Ex-chancellor Rishi Sunak has become Britain's new prime minister. Elsewhere, Brazilians have narrowly ejected their far-right leader, Jair Bolsonaro, after a single term and replaced him with former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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Liz Truss’ dramatic demise 🇬🇧 Has Australia breached its human rights obligations?
Liz Truss has resigned from her position as the British prime minister. Tension is in the air as the race begins for who will take her seat in government. Meanwhile, Australia has been accused of breaching its human rights obligations for refusing United Nations officers from entering it detention facilities.
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Who is Sergei Surovikin 🇷🇺 and why has North Korea continued weapons testing?
Russia announced the appointment of notorious veteran Sergei Surovikin as its first overall commander for the war in Ukraine. Elsewhere, North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles towards the eastern waters of the peninsula in response to the latest round of naval drills by South Korea and the United States in the region.
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Why are young people in Iran protesting? 🧐
Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi vowed to crack down on protests that are gathering momentum across the country one week after the death of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman in custody who had been charged with violating the country’s dress code and detained by the morality police.
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What does Ukraine's counteroffensive mean for Putin? 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Ukraine launched its long-awaited counteroffensive against Russian positions in the south and also reclaimed territory in the northeast. The success of these counteroffensives has left Russian President Vladimir Putin with few choices to turn the tide of war.
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The end of a seventy year-long reign 🇬🇧
This week, the death of Britain's longest ruling monarch, Queen Elizabeth II was announced. In her seventy year-long reign as Queen, she weathered extraordinary upheavals in British foreign policy—from decolonisation to the war on terror, from the rise of the European Union to Brexit.
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