Tunisian authorities have arrested three critics of President Kais Saied since February 22, bringing the number of public figures deemed critical of Saied behind bars to at least 12, Human Rights Watch said today. The
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The ANC elite is full of Russian sympathisers South africa’s navy, like much of the country, is dilapidated. Its fleet spends less than half the time on the seas that it did a decade ago.
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