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• 21 Aug

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• AFRICA: Zimbabwean police blocked for the third time in five days, another street protest as the main opposition party said hopes were vanishing that the government might become more tolerant of dissent than the regime it had replaced.
• AMERICAS: Brazilian states that contain parts of the Amazon rainforest are negotiating directly with European nations that fund projects to curb deforestation, after changes proposed by President Jair Bolsonaro led Norway and Germany to suspend donations.

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• 15 Aug

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• AFRICA: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has told the central bank to stop providing funding for food imports, his spokesman said.
• AMERICAS: US President Donald Trump put off planned new tariffs on many Chinese goods, including cellphones, laptop computers and toys, until after the start of the Christmas shopping season.

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• 14 Aug

Chirp Chirp – 14 August 2019

In Russia radiation levels are 16x times greater than normal around the location of an Arctic missile testing site that had an explosion last week.

WHO reports that reported global measles cases has tripled YTD from 2018 to 2019.…