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Jan 28 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
• As Omicron pushes the West to reopen, Asia hunkers down aje.io/tzgedd

• Morocco starts construction of COVID vaccine plant aje.io/nqe5x8

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Myanmar lost 1.6 million jobs in 2021 amid combined shock of the COVID-19 pandemic and s military coup, says International Labour Organization aje.io/q26utg
“I constantly worry that I will have to be quarantined."

Residents in the city prevented from leaving apartments as authorities race to halt spread of Omicron ⤵️ aje.io/fetkdj
The BA.2 subtype of the Omicron COVID variant appears to have a substantial growth advantage aje.io/4qxfjh

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Jan 29
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Jan 28
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48 bullets in two minutes.

In 2017, a gunman killed six people at a Quebec City mosque. Five years on, the attack still haunts survivors and Canada’s Muslim community.

🔗: aje.io/ddj4jk
Outside the mosque, black stone plinths stand in a memorial to those killed:

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Jan 28
Russia’s foreign minister has said Russia does not want a war after the US warned Moscow may invade Ukraine next month.

🔴 Follow our LIVE blog for the latest updates: aje.io/b7n6mp
The UK has told domestic organisations to bolster their defences against possible Russian cyberattacks as the Ukraine crisis rumbles on.

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Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has said that conflict will only break out if Belarus or its close ally Russia are directly attacked.

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Jan 27
The US says it wants to keep pursuing a diplomatic path to address Russia’s concerns and discuss issues such as arms control with the Kremlin, putting the onus on Moscow to act next on the Ukraine crisis.

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'We call on all parties to refrain from doing things that agitate tensions.'

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“Five thousand helmets are an absolute joke. What will Germany send next? Pillows?”

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Jan 24
The UK has begun withdrawing staff from its embassy in Ukraine as fears persist of an imminent Russian invasion.

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The EU is drawing up an emergency $1.35bn financial aid package for Ukraine, says EU chief.

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Jan 23
Russia has deployed troops near the Ukraine border, triggering the worst security crisis to emerge between Moscow and the West since the Cold War — in pictures aje.io/ckwjme
The UK has accused the Kremlin of seeking to install a pro-Russian leader in Ukraine as fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine grow.

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