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Ukraine Denies Russian Border Buildup As Defence Minister Quits

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Kiev:
Ukraine has denied reports of a Russian military build-up near its eastern border that raised fears of a new escalation in fighting with pro-Moscow separatists.
The statement came hours before a government official said Tuesday that Ukraine's Defence Minister Andriy Taran had resigned -- reportedly on health grounds.
Taran, who had led the ministry since March 2020, has not commented on his resignation, a decision which parliament must ratify amid reports of an impending wider cabinet reshuffle.
The 66-year-old Taran "has complaints about his health", the leader of President Volodymyr Zelensky's faction in parliament, Davyd Arakhamiia, told reporters.
Opponents had criticised him during his tenure, citing insufficient reform of an under-resourced military.
Social media videos in recent days have shown Russian military trains and truck convoys moving tanks and missiles in the country's southwest near the Ukrainian border.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters Monday that Washington was monitoring the situation, and The Washington Post quoted US officials saying they were concerned.
But Ukraine's defence ministry said in a statement late Monday that "no additional deployment" of Russian forces had been observed.
The videos could comprise "special informational and psychological actions" and show a planned troop movement after a Russian military exercise, it added.
Zelensky-Biden talks
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday he had discussed the conflict with US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow.
"The US continues to support territorial integrity and reforms in Ukraine," Zelensky tweeted.
Zelensky also had a more formal meeting in Glasgow with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who "reaffirmed the United States' unwavering support for Ukraine's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity," a State Department statement said.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday dismissed the reports of a potential build-up, saying there was no need to "waste time" on "low-quality" claims.
"The movement of our military equipment and army units... is exclusively our business," he told reporters. "Russia has never threatened anyone."
The Ukrainian army is locked in a simmering conflict with pro-Russian separatists that erupted after Moscow annexed Crimea in 2014.
After a rise in violence early this year, Russia in March amassed around 100,000 troops on Ukraine's borders, sparking fears of a major escalation.
Under pressure from Kiev's Western allies, Moscow later announced a pullback, but both Ukraine and the United States said at the time the withdrawal was limited.
Ukraine's military said Tuesday one of its soldiers had been killed in a separatist attack.
The conflict has claimed more than 13,000 lives to date.
Russia denies supporting the separatists.
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New York Elects Black Ex-Cop Eric Adams As Next Mayor

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New York:
Ex-policeman Eric Adams was elected New York City's next mayor on Tuesday and will become just the second African American to lead the United States's largest city.
US TV networks including NBC and CBS called the race for the 61-year-old centrist Democrat shortly after polls closed at 09:00 pm (0100 GMT Wednesday).
Adams had been the overwhelming favorite to defeat Republican rival and volunteer crime fighter Curtis Sliwa in the liberal-voting bastion where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by seven to one.
Early unofficial results released by New York City's Board of Elections suggested that Adams would win more than 70 percent of the votes.
Being New York's mayor is often described as the most difficult job in the United States after president.
Adams's win caps a remarkable rise for someone who was born in poverty in Brooklyn and worked for a gang as a teenager before a beating by police officers spurred his determination to reform the NYPD from within.
"Because I'm standing here, everyday New Yorkers are going to realize that they deserve the right to stand in the city also. This is for the little guy," said Adams, wiping away tears outside a polling station after casting his vote.
Adams will succeed unpopular progressive Bill de Blasio, whose second and last term ends on December 31.
As mayor for more than eight million people, he will oversee America's largest municipal budget and its biggest police force and public school system.
Adams will be tasked with leading the city's economic recovery after the pandemic, which has killed more than 34,000 residents and closed hundreds of thousands of businesses.
The moderate defeated progressive rivals in June's Democratic primary by pledging to crack down on violent crime that soared during the pandemic.
He promised to tackle wealth inequalities and reform the education system, as well.
Adams will also have to grapple with a severe lack of affordable housing, violent chaos at the notorious Rikers Island prison and the effects of more extreme weather events on New York's creaking infrastructure.
One of his trickiest balancing acts will be trying to reform police practices while keeping onside a heavily unionized force that feels it has been underappreciated during the de Blasio era.
Adams opposes defunding the police and has not called for higher taxes for wealthy residents, putting him at odds with the American left.
Police reform
Born in 1960, Adams was raised in a large family living in a working-class neighborhood of Queens. His mother was a cleaner, and his father was a butcher.
Adams briefly ran errands for a gang as a teenager. When he was 15, he was beaten by two NYPD officers after they arrested him for criminal trespassing.
That sparked his determination to join the NYPD and he entered the force in the mid-1980s, serving 22 years and rising to become a captain.
In 1995, he co-founded "100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care," an advocacy group designed to fight against racism in the police and that still exists today.
In 2006, Adams retired and won election to the New York State Senate. He served until 2013, when he was elected Brooklyn borough president, providing a springboard for his mayoral ambitions.
New York's first Black mayor, David Dinkins, served from 1990 to 1993 -- nearly 30 years ago.
"I'm overwhelmed. This time is overdue," said Adams voter Jakwan Rivers, who is Black.
Adams credits veganism with reversing his 2016 diabetes diagnosis and released a book last year that aims to turn African Americans to a plant-based diet.
Sixty-seven year-old Sliwa, a right-wing radio host known for wearing a red beret, founded the Guardian Angels crime prevention group in 1979.
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British Waitress Wins Discrimination Fight Over Australia's "Backpacker Tax"

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Catherine Addy won a lengthy legal fight against Australia's "backpacker tax". (Representational)
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Sydney:
A British woman on Wednesday won a lengthy legal fight against Australia's "backpacker tax", after the country's top court agreed the levy discriminated against foreigners on working holiday visas.
Catherine Addy, who had worked in Sydney in 2017, took her battle against the levy all the way to Australia's High Court, which unanimously ruled in her favour -- putting potentially thousands of other backpackers in line for a tax refund.
From 2017, Canberra applied a 15 percent levy for every dollar earned for two categories of working holiday visas linked to seasonal labour.
Australians begin paying tax once their annual income exceeds Aus$18,200 (US$13,500). That was also the threshold for working holiday visas before it was changed.
In a landmark decision two years ago, a Brisbane court had ruled the so-called "backpacker tax" could not be applied to Addy due to a double taxation treaty between Australia and the UK.
The presiding judge at the time called it a "disguised form of discrimination".
That earlier decision was overturned by the Federal Court, which sided with the Australian Taxation Office, before Addy's lawyers appealed to the country's top court.
"An Australian national deriving taxable income from the same source during the same period would have been taxed at a lower rate," the High Court said Wednesday.
"The more burdensome taxation was imposed on Ms Addy owing to her nationality."
The Australian Taxation Office said the decision was expected to impact decision working holidaymakers from the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Chile, Turkey, Finland, Norway and Israel who were also Australian residents for tax purposes.
"Most working holidaymakers will be non-residents as they are in Australia to have a holiday and working to support that holiday," the agency said in a statement.
"This decision will not change the tax rates for the majority of working holidaymakers."
In Addy's case, she lived mainly in a Sydney sharehouse and stayed for the most part in the state of New South Wales -- meaning she was considered a "resident" for tax purposes in Australia.
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France Ambassador Accuses Australia Of "Intentional Deceit" Over Submarine Deal

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Canberra:
France's ambassador to Australia, Jean-Pierre Thebault, said on Wednesday that Australia acted with deceit when it abruptly cancelled a multi-billion deal with Paris to build a fleet of submarines.
"The deceit was intentional," Thebault told media in Canberra on Wednesday.
"And because there was far more at stake than providing submarines, because it was a common agreement on sovereignty, sealed with the transmission of highly classified data, the way it was handled was a stab in the back."
Australia in September cancelled a deal with France's Naval Group, opting instead to build at least 12 nuclear-powered submarines after striking a deal with the United States and Britain.
The new alliance, dubbed AUKUS, is designed to give Australia access to nuclear-powered submarines for the first time.
The decision has caused a major bilateral rift, with France recalling its ambassadors from Australia and the U.S. in protest. Thebault returned to Canberra last month, and the speech on Wednesday is the first time he has spoken publicly on the bilateral relationship.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday said Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison had lied to him about Canberra's intentions.
Morrison has denied the claim.
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"My Name Is Cleo": Australia Rejoices As Girl, 4, Found After 18-Day Search

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Sydney:
A four-year-old Australian girl abducted from a campsite 18 days ago was found "alive and well" in a locked house Wednesday, telling elated police officers: "My name is Cleo."
Cleo Smith disappeared from her family's tent in Western Australia last month, sparking a frantic air, sea and ground search involving 100 officers, one that most feared would end in tragedy.
The little girl was found alone inside a locked house in the coastal town of Carnarvon, a short drive away from where she disappeared, Western Australia police said.
"One of the officers picked her up into his arms and asked her 'what's your name?'" police deputy commissioner Col Blanch said.
"She said 'My name is Cleo'."
Police detained a 36-year-old local man with no connection to the family after breaking into the house at about 1 am local time.
The young girl was reunited with her parents a short time later, with her mother Ellie taking to social media to express her relief.
"Our family is whole again," she posted on Instagram under a photo of Cleo.
Ellie Smith had earlier described her distress at waking at 6 am to find the family's tent unzipped and her oldest daughter missing.
Her public pleas for help to bring Cleo home had prompted an outpouring of support from across Australia.
Blanch told local radio that he saw "seasoned detectives openly crying with relief" after Cleo was found, calling the rescue "just incredible".
"It's very rare. It's something we all hoped in our hearts, and it's come true," he said.
State premier Mark McGowan expressed elation at receiving the news overnight.
He first received a call at 1:38 am, but sheepishly admitted: "I didn't answer it, I was asleep." Still, within a few hours, he had received a "lovely" image of the girl smiling from a hospital bed.
"There will be movies made about this," he said. "You never know what to expect, you hope for the best, but you prepare for the worst."
"It's great to provide the country with positive news."
While police used human intelligence, surveillance footage and forensic analysis to find the girl, scores of volunteers scoured nearby bushland for clues.
'Australia is rejoicing'
Investigators had been determined they "were not going to leave any stone unturned", even as the search dragged on, Western Australia police commissioner Chris Dawson said.
"We had been following a lot of the forensic leads and it led us to a particular house," he told ABC radio. "We put everything we had at it."
"Hope was never lost and the fact she's been found alive, I think Australia is rejoicing. It is such a wonderful outcome."
Dawson said Cleo was "as well as we could expect in the circumstances", while Blanch added that she was being assessed by a medical team.
Police last month had offered Aus$1 million (US$750,000) for information leading to Cleo's recovery after she was feared abducted from her family's tent at the remote Blowholes campsite -- about 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) north of Perth -- on October 16.
Detective Superintendent Rod Wilde said at the time that the investigation "leads us to believe that she was taken from the tent", and that authorities had reason to fear for her safety.
Police on Wednesday praised the family for their strength through the ordeal, while thanking the local community and volunteers for their help in the search.
Premier McGowan paid tribute to the family and expressed solidarity.
"Can I finally also acknowledge Ellie and Jack, Cleo's parents, they have been through a lot in the last 18 days, terrible trauma, some vicious attacks, and some, no doubt, very trying and sad times. To them, and all of our thoughts go to them."
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Archbishop Viganò Writes Stunning Letter on Vaccine Program

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has written a stunning letter to America’s bishops in which he makes several astounding claims about COVID-19 jabs and the Church’s role in promoting vaccines.
Viganò <a href="https://insidethevatican.com/news/newsflash/letter-136-2021-wed-oct-27-vigano-to-gomez/">asserts</a> that vaccines normally go through years of rigorous testing, and that the lack of such a process in the case of COVID-19 jabs represents public health authorities conducting “experimentation on the entire world population.”
The Archbishop referenced drug treatments that have proven effective in fighting COVID without the risks of vaccines, noting that such drugs have been discredited by global health bodies and the media.
“It must be reiterated that there are effective treatments which cure patients and allow them to develop permanent natural immune defenses, something that the vaccines do not do,” he wrote. “Furthermore, these treatments do not cause serious side effects, since the drugs that are used have been licensed for decades.”
“International standards specify that an experimental drug cannot be authorized for distribution except in the absence of an effective alternative treatment: this is why drug agencies in the USA and Europe have prevented the use of hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, hyper-immune plasma, and other therapies with proven effectiveness,” he added.
Viganò goes on to state that the vaccines proving ineffective in preventing people from getting and passing on the virus means they can’t even be called vaccines.
“In fact a “vaccine” is defined as a medicinal preparation aimed at inducing the production of protective antibodies by the organism, conferring specific resistance against a specific infectious disease (viral, bacterial, protozoal). This definition was recently changed by the WHO, because otherwise it would not have been able to include anti-Covid drugs, which do not induce the production of protective antibodies and do not confer a specific resistance against the SarsCoV-2 infectious disease.”
The Archbishop went on to assert it was a moral “duty” to refuse inoculation given what we now know about the vaccine program.
“Worldwide, the number of deaths and grave pathologies following vaccination is increasing exponentially: in only nine months these vaccines have caused more deaths than all vaccines in the last thirty years. Not only this: in many nations – such as Israel for example – the number of deaths after vaccination is now greater than the number of deaths from Covid.”
Viganò went to to assert it would be “immoral and unacceptable” for Catholics to take the vaccine given revelations by Pfizer executives that the jabs contain material from aborted fetuses.
The Archbishop expressed his fury at other members of the clergy and Pope Francis himself for facilitating a “crime against humanity” and “satanic action against God.”
Viganò pulled no punches in outlining the wider agenda at play.
“I realize that it may be extremely unpopular to take a position against the so-called vaccines, but as Shepherds of the flock of the Lord we have the duty to denounce the horrible crime that is being carried out, whose goal is to create billions of chronically ill people and to exterminate millions and millions of people, based on the infernal ideology of the “Great Reset” formulated by the President of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab and endorsed by institutions and organizations around the world.”
Viganò previously <a href="https://summit.news/2020/11/10/archbishop-writes-open-letter-to-trump-warning-of-covid-health-dictatorship/">wrote</a> to then President Donald Trump asserting that the COVID-19 pandemic is part of a plot to impose a “health dictatorship” and that Trump is “the final garrison” in stopping this agenda.
Last year, we also <a href="https://summit.news/2020/12/18/top-catholic-cardinal-warns-covid-19-being-used-to-usher-in-evil-great-reset/">highlighted</a> how Cardinal Raymond Burke warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is being exploited by proponents of “The Great Reset” to “advance their evil agenda.”
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Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has written a stunning letter to America’s bishops in which he makes several astounding claims about COVID-19 ...