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medrxiv.org | Max Wacker |Sven Schuchardt |Sam Varghese |Frieder Neu
The authors have declared no competing interest. FP is supported by internal funds of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany. FN is supported by Latvian State Scholarship, No.4.-10.3/3470. MW and PV are supported by internal research funds of the Otto-von-Guericke University Hospital, Magdeburg, Germany. I confirm all relevant ethical guidelines have been followed, and any necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained.
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johnmenadue.com | Sam Varghese
Increasingly, organs of the state are used to harass critics of the government. Six months ago India was accused of involvement in the murder of a leader of the Khalistan movement in Canada and what followed was predictable: expulsion of diplomats from both countries, stalled trade talks and temporary stopping of visa services. But in Canada, a mood of defiance exists within the Sikh community.
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1 month ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Sam Varghese
Former Liberal prime minister John Howard used to be often contemptuously referred to as the deputy sheriff for the US in the Pacific region when George W. Bush was in power. Given thenewsthat the US is now preparing to send six nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to Australia, one would be totally justified if the same title was applied to Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
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johnmenadue.com | Sam Varghese
India appears to have taken a leaf out of Saudi Arabia’s book in dealing with its critics abroad, with the alleged killing by Indian agents of a prominent Khalistan activist in Canada recently. In fact, if one goes by the accusation levelled by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, India has not even bothered to hunt down the man, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, and execute him outside the country. No, the foul deed was done on Canadian soil.
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1 month ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Sam Varghese
The stars do not exactly seem to be aligning for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he bids for a third term in office with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police charging three Indians living in Edmonton with the assassination of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June last year.
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johnmenadue.com | Sam Varghese
Melbourne tabloid The Age has done its already sagging reputation no favours by running, as an exclusive, an article that claims to detail what it calls the denial and disinformation facing October 7 survivors Israelis who were attacked by Hamas with the centrepiece of the article being an interview with an Israeli reservist who was interviewed twice in 2023.
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1 month ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Sam Varghese
Search behemoth Google is under pressure in the US after three anti-trust trials concluded, with one of the remedies proposed being a call for it to be forced to sell off its web browser, Chrome, an app that dominates the browser space. There has also been a call for a break-up of Googles advertising business.
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1 month ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Sam Varghese
Australian politicians inability to understand the complexity of the Indian diaspora is, in part, fostering division among these migrants, the Guardian Australia claims in analysis published on Sunday (December 8). Writers Ben Doherty and Mostafa Rachwani say the diaspora is deeply divided which should not surprise any educated person given that Indias Prime Minister Narendra Modi has divided the country along religious lines in his bid to increase his poll numbers across three elections.
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1 month ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Sam Varghese
Australia’s mainstream media groups are trying to pressure the government in order to obtain funding to cover the $70 million that was provided by Facebook in a deal in 2021 and which the social media group has said it will not renew when the deal lapses later this year. The 2021 deal was made under the government’s News Media Bargaining Code. The code includes a provision to “designate” a company that does not agree to bargain with media companies, with fines threatened if they do not comply.
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1 month ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Sam Varghese
The Greens, a party with whom Labor may well have to negotiate with to form government after the next election, have the knack of getting up the noses of both Labor and the Coalition by accusing both major parties of doing little or nothing to effect an end to the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, senseless killing that has been going on in the name of self-defence since October 7. For the most part, this is part of the cut and thrust of everyday politics.
