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Global Courant 2023-04-28 18:09:35 This Q&A was originally published on Reddit and has been edited for length and clarity I am Hiba Morgan and I have been on the ground in the Sudanese capital since fighting broke out on April 15 between two rival Sudanese generals. I have been a reporter for Al Jazeera for over eight years and have been a reporter for Sudan since 2009. My reports come from the middle of the war zone; a city so dangerous that the US has difficulty evacuating Americans. Ask me anything: Lost_Fun7095: According to an Al Jazeera reporter, is the conflict a symbol of deeper flaws and the inability of African nations to unite for a common good? Hiba Morgan: The conflict is the result of a lack of checks and balances in an institution like the military. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) originated from the Janjaweed (government-backed militia), which killed and terrorized (people) in Darfur during the war years. There was no question about how they were recruited, how they
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Global Courant 2023-04-29 04:13:08 It was the ultimate chip war that never was: German officials denied that Berlin was planning to stop exporting specialty chemicals for chip manufacturing. Reuters reported April 27 — a day after Bloomberg News claimed Olaf Scholz's administration was "in talks" on the subject, presumably under Washington's urging. Share prices of BASF and Solvay, the largest makers of the specialty products, plummeted Thursday after the Bloomberg report came out, but rallied strongly on Friday following the government's denial. More than one dozens of chemicals including acids, bases and solvents are indispensable to etch microcircuits onto silicon wafers, and a supply interruption would cripple China's manufacturing capacity. Restricting these chemicals would escalate the chip war far beyond the scope of the Biden administration's Oct. 7 controls on semiconductor devices and design software for the most advanced chips, used in advanced
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Global Courant 2023-04-30 07:58:48 The five detainees, with family ties to each other, had police records and also had minors among their clients. A gang that was dedicated to drug dealing, and which was made up of three women and two men linked to each other by family ties, was disrupted this Saturday by personnel from the Córdoba Anti-Drug Police Force, in the city of Villa Allende. According to sources in the case, the five detainees used minors to sell drugs. The investigations began after different calls to the Anonymous Complaints Center and led to a series of raids that were carried out in Espiritu Santo at 1,500 and in Salomón s/n, both houses located in the Las Polinesias neighborhood. Within the framework of these operations, as officially reported by the Córdoba Public Prosecutor's Office, the closure of four points of sale of narcotics was completed and the arrest of the defendants was carried out, who had police records and also destined part of the drugs to minors. I
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Global Courant 2023-04-18 07:52:48 San Pedro Sula, Honduras. an earthquake magnitude 3.5 on the Richter scale was registered this Monday in the central region of Honduraswithout causing personal or material damage, reported the Secretary of State in the Offices of National Risk Management and Contingencies. The epicenter of the tremor took place in the department of Comayaguacentral region of Honduras, at a depth of two kilometers, the institution indicated. The brief report from the civil protection agency on Twitter adds that the telluric movement occurred at the coordinates 14 degrees North and 87.7 degrees West. The Secretary of State in the National Risk and Contingency Management Offices indicated that, according to reports from the Fire Department, no material damage or victims were reported from the earthquake. The Central American country is located in a region with a lot of seismic activity, although most tremors are registered in the Pacific, with a higher incidence in El Sa
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Global Courant 2023-04-18 05:48:10 BEIJING - A deadly price war has broken out on the largest car market in the world. Within a week in March, Volkswagen's Chinese joint venture slashed the prices of its ID.3 electric cars by 18 percent. Changan Automobile, one of China's state-owned automakers, offered US$3,000 (S$4,000) cash rebates, free charging stations and other incentives for its electric vehicles. BYD, the country's largest electric car maker, has announced a second round of price cuts for some of its older models in a month. In the midst of declining car sales, car brands are going to great lengths to stay competitive, offering giveaways and deep discounts. More than 40 automakers have discounted electric and gasoline cars in China this year. The discounts amounted to several hundred dollars for cheaper models and tens of thousands of dollars for more expensive offerings. "The severity of this cycle of price cuts is something I've never seen before,"
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Global Courant 2023-04-18 03:08:51 "To me, it's outrageous to think that the Chinese police would try to establish themselves, you know, in New York, let's say, without proper coordination," Wray said. "It violates sovereignty and circumvents standard judicial and law enforcement cooperation processes." The FBI is making arrests for suspected secret Chinese https://globalcourant.com/the-fbi-is-making-arrests-for-suspected-secret-chinese/