Episode 2022-01-23: Snippet News about Norway Befriend the Taliban, China Corruption, 6th Extinction

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Ukraine crisis: Moscow accepts UK talks invite amid fears Russian invasion is 'imminent'
https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-crisis-moscow-accepts-uk-talks-invite-amid-fears-russian-invasion-is-imminent-12522361
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Norway pay and arrange private jet to get Taliban leaders to meeting in Norway
https://www.brytfmonline.com/taliban-on-their-way-to-norway-by-private-plane/
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Canada’s Trudeau vows action after four Indians freeze to death at border with US
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/canadas-trudeau-vows-action-after-four-indians-freeze-to-death-at-border-with-us-101642844742141.html
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China warns of 'no mercy' in corruption and monopoly crackdown
https://news.yahoo.com/china-warns-no-mercy-corruption-064405435.html
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Many scientists have proposed that we are entering a Sixth Mass Extinction, this time driven by human activity “Denying it is simply flying in the face of the mountain of data that is rapidly accumulating, and there is no longer room for skepticism, wondering whether it really is happening,”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdg4z/scientists-warn-that-sixth-mass-extinction-has-probably-started
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Studies are underway to find out the precise characteristics of the latest Covid-19 variant ‘BA.2’. It already accounts for the majority of most recent cases in a number of countries, including India, Denmark and Sweden.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20220122-scientists-scrutinise-characteristics-of-new-covid-19-omicron-sub-variant-ba-2