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The Ethiopian government has assured that it intends to proceed with the second filling of the dam reservoir it is building on the Blue Nile River despite the fact that the latest round of trilateral talks with Egypt and Sudan were closed on Tuesday without agreement, amid the stalemate in the process over the past few months. The Ethiopian Foreign Ministry has stressed in a statement... https://awutar.com//ethiopia-says-it-will-proceed-with-se/

As I speak now, there is an ongoing industry-scale massacre of Amharas in Wollega province of Western Ethiopia, carried out in the most gruesome and cruel fashion by the Oromo Liberation Army (OLF), the armed wing of the OLF that is armed and financed by Abiy Ahmed’s regime.This active genocidal war that is leaving hundreds of women and children dead almost daily, and causes massive displacement of tens of thousands of Amharas should be front-page news and top story of international media outlets such as... https://awutar.com//active-genocide-of-amharas-in-wollega/

The Egyptian government announced Tuesday that the latest round of contacts mediated by the African Union (AU) on the dam being built by Ethiopia on the Blue Nile River has ended again without progress, in the midst of a dispute that has caused tensions between Addis Ababa, Cairo and Khartoum. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said that these consultations, held over the past three days in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the country that holds the AU presidency have ended without an agreement that would pave the way for a final pact on the project, Egyptian daily '... https://awutar.com//au-mediated-round-of-talks-on-ethiopi/

The President of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, announced Tuesday that he is giving the mandate to the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to try to form the new government in the country, although he stressed that "no candidate has a realistic chance" of assembling an executive. "I know the position of many that the president should not give the mandate to an impeached candidate," said the president, before pointing out that "according to the laws and the decisions of the courts, a prime minister can continue in office even if he has been impeached".... https://awutar.com//israels-president-gives-netanyahu-the/

Authorities in Myanmar detained the country's best-known comedian on Tuesday as they continue to hunt down people they accuse of helping to incite nationwide protests against February's military coup. Comedian Zarganar was taken from his home in Yangon by police and soldiers who arrived aboard two army vehicles, another comedian, Ngepyawkyaw, said on his Facebook page. Zarganar, 60, is a scathing comedian who has been in and out of prison since he took an active part in a failed 1988 popular revolt against the military dictatorship that ruled the country at the time.... https://awutar.com//myanmar-comedian-arrested-and-dissolv/

The United States and Iran said Friday they will begin indirect talks with other world powers to try to bring the two countries back to an agreement limiting Iran's nuclear program, nearly three years after President Donald Trump withdrew Washington from the deal. State Department spokesman Ned Price said the resumption of negotiations, scheduled for Tuesday in Austria, was a positive step.... https://awutar.com//us-and-iran-agree-to-hold-indirect-ta/

Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny announced on Wednesday via his Instagram account that he is going on hunger strike until he is allowed in the prison where he is being held to receive medical assistance, as "marked by law." "I have the right to call a doctor and get medicine. They give me neither one nor the other. The pain in my back has moved to my leg.... https://awutar.com//russia-alexei-navalny-goes-on-hunger-/

A veteran BBC correspondent whose coverage drew the ire of Chinese authorities has left the country fearing for his safety, the British broadcaster and a journalists' organization said. The BBC said Wednesday that John Sudworth has settled in Taiwan and he remains its China correspondent. The Foreign Correspondents Club of China said Sudworth left last week fearing for his safety and that of his family.... https://awutar.com//bbc-correspondent-leaves-china-due-to/

As their respective probes headed to Mars, China and the United States held consultations earlier this year in a series of unusual exchanges between the two rival nations. China's National Space Agency confirmed Wednesday that it held working meetings and communications with NASA between January and March to ensure the safe flight of its spacecraft. U.S. law prohibits almost all contacts between NASA and China... https://awutar.com//u-s-china-discuss-safety-of-mars-miss/

Italy on Wednesday ordered the expulsion of two Russian embassy officials and arrested an Italian Navy captain on espionage charges after police caught him allegedly handing over classified documents to one of the Russians in exchange for money. The Italian Foreign Ministry said it summoned the Russian ambassador, Sergey Razov, and protested the serious incident following an undercover operation outside Rome that allegedly caught the Italian and one of the Russians in what police called a clandestine operation to exchange the documents Tuesday night.... https://awutar.com//italy-expels-2-russian-embassy-offici/

Fighters from different NATO countries have intercepted ten Russian aircraft at six different points near their airspace, in an episode that the military organization itself has described as "unusual". The incident took place this Monday in different areas of the Atlantic Alliance space such as the North Atlantic, the North Sea, the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea in a period of only six hours.... https://awutar.com//nato-intercepts-six-groups-of-russian/

The Sudanese authorities have assured that both the European Union (EU) and the United States have conveyed to Khartoum their willingness to mediate in the negotiations with Egypt and Ethiopia on the dam being built by Addis Ababa on the Blue Nile River, despite the refusal expressed by the Ethiopian government on this possibility. The Sovereign Council of Sudan has stressed after a meeting between its president, Abdelfatá al Burhan, and the envoys of the United States and the EU, Donald Booth and Robert van den Dool, respectively, that Washington and Brussels have opted for a "negotiated solution".... https://awutar.com//sudan-says-eu-us-ready-to-mediate-in-/

The German state of Berlin has again suspended use of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine in people under 60 years of age due to reports of blood clots. The decision was made as a precaution before a meeting of representatives from Germany's 16 states after the country's medical regulator announced 31 cases of rare blood clots in people who had received the vaccine shortly before, Berlin's top health official, Dilek Kalayci, said.... https://awutar.com//berlin-suspends-astrazeneca-vaccinati/