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Iran's parliament elects a hard-line former mayor of Tehran as the legislative body's new speaker. Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf was one of the challengers to President Hassan Rouhani in Iran's 2017 presidential election.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1265893345215348742
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An ex-Green Beret that led a failed attempt to capture Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro flew to a January meeting in Colombia on a plane owned by a businessman with longtime ties to the socialist government, fueling speculation that the raid was staged.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1265870458093699083
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China's parliament approved directly imposing national security legislation on #HongKong.
https://twitter.com/Jerusalem_Post/status/1265906706825056256
Holy Moly
Australian arm of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp to stop printing more than 100 regional newspapers after the coronavirus shutdown gutted advertising revenue, accelerating a downturn in the country’s media sector
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1265909186568871942
One of the architects of Israel's and #Sudan's normalization of relations, Najwa Gadaheldam, died of #coronavirus after being flown to #Israel to receive treatment according to foreign sources.
https://twitter.com/Jerusalem_Post/status/1265906115864342531
A cyber winter is coming and it will be faster than suspected, Israel’s #cyber czar warned on Wednesday, a week after #Iran tried hacking #Israel’s water system.
https://twitter.com/Jerusalem_Post/status/1265900124305330176