Geopolitics

Landmines head to Ukraine

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Wednesday, 20 November 2024

“If you’re too methodical, too fearful, you’re not going to win. But the clever thing is to make the calculation correctly about where and when to go over the top. You’ve got to know when to push it and when to come back.”

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STORY OF THE DAY

How South African men are changing the course of American democracy

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What do figures like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Joel Pollak and Patrick Soon-Shiong have in common? They are public figures of considerable power and influence in the US – who all spent some part of their formative years in apartheid South Africa.
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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
🇺🇸🇺🇦 President Joe Biden has approved the export of anti-personnel landmines to Ukraine. Ukraine has committed to not using them in areas populated with civilians. A strictly defensive weapon, Biden seems determined to frontload help to Ukraine before the other guy takes office.
🇺🇸🏦 Speaking of, Donald Trump has picked Cantor Fitzgerald CEO and longtime cheerleader Howard Lutnick as US commerce secretary. Lutnick will be at the coalface of Trump’s much-threatened global tariffs regime.
🚀❤️ SpaceX performed the sixth test of its Super Heavy starship rocket on Tuesday, with Trump watching. No word yet on whether the incoming POTUS was sitting next to Elon Musk, or in his lap.
🇭🇹⚕️Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) is halting its operations in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince and surrounds from today. Ongoing violence and police threats to MSF staff were the primary factors.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

📷 Craig Sagar

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IN NUMBERS

1967

… the year the first ATM was introduced, at Barclays in London.

FACTS OF THE DAY

Today in 1945, the Nuremberg trials begin.

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SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
🏉 Brothers Jaden and Jordan Hendrikse have been selected as halfbacks to start against Wales in the Springboks’ final Test of a seminal 2024 season.

⚽ Bafana Bafana completed their Africa Cup of Nations qualification campaign with a 3-0 win over South Sudan to finish at the top of their group on Tuesday.

🎾 Roger Federer paid tribute to his retiring rival Rafa Nadal on Tuesday, telling the Spaniard he challenged him like no other player and that he had made the tennis world proud during a glittering career lasting more than two decades.

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