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According to reports, a coup took place on Friday 30 September when a group of officers decided to remove lieutenant colonel Damiba, president of Burkina Faso, who sought refuge in a french military base and is now in neighbouring Togo, the reason being a worsening conflict. Reportedly, chaos ensued over the weekend as protestors attacked the french embassy and other buildings associated with France, who have withdrawn troops from the area having completed a controversial nine year operation.

According to a report, the new president, Captain Traore is concerned that people are going hungry, his followers are waving russian flags. The russian military group Wagner have been known to be present in the area since France announced their withdrawal. It is not known whether Wagner are u.n. delegates.

The situation in Burkina Faso has been attributed to jihadist violence opposing western interests in the area, which has been described by the u.n. as a land of opportunity. Reportedly, their main export (70%) is gold, which increased by 32% in 2011. According to a report, they are the fourth largest exporter of gold in Africa after south Africa, Mali and Ghana.

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Inspite of Ireland having one of the highest debts per capita, estimated at €239 billion at the end of March, 2022, and possibly more, yesterday’s budget was a pledge to spend billions of euros.

The 2023 budget pledges €130 million to the arts council, €30 million in additional funding for tourism, including overseas advertising, €8.5 million towards supporting the Irish language and gaeltacht. €7.3 million for TG4, some of which will be used to launch Cùla4, a children’s channel. €6 million to support national and local journalism. €15 million to public service broadcasting, €8 million to sport and a €60 million fund to help sports clubs, the arts sector and gaeltacht facilities towards energy bills. Reportedly, there will be three seperate electriciity credit payments amounting to €600 for all households, and recipients of the national childcare scheme will save up to €175 per month.

With regard to housing, the 2023 budget doubles the amount of pre letting expenses that can be claimed by landlords to €10,000 per premises and there is a €500 tax credit for renters, but a levy on concrete products to the sum of €80 million will not help provide new housing.

According to a report, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has turned president Zelensky into a global icon who is helping to change the world order. Reportedly, the u.s. were involved in several soviet states gaining independence from Russia, many of whom joined nato.

Since seperating from Russia in 1991, Ukraine has been accused of rigged presidential elections. According to reports, prior to the war Ukraine was a prosperous country with western connections. There were reports of a western military base, a chemical weapons facility said to be connected to nato and the multi billion dollar Kyiv based oil company, Burisma, of which Hunter Biden was a director.

Reportedly, the war in Ukraine has resulted in the death of 9,000 Ukrainian troops and 5,547 Ukrainian civillians. According to a report, western powers have provided sophisticated weapons resulting in the loss of 56,300 russian soldiers. Sanctions on Russian business men have amounted to discrimination.

Reportedly, around 5 million Ukrainians have left for other countries. According to a report, Ukraine have 2.5 million labour migrants contributing US$11 billion or one tenth of the countries gdp. Reportedly, there are around 48,700 Ukrainian refugees in Ireland with a current average of 126 arriving daily.

According to tradition, Charles will become head of the church of England and the worldwide anglican church. Since the 16th Century split with Rome, the arch bishop of Canterbury is answerable to the crown. The ecumenical movement has seemingly resulted in anglicans taking over catholic churchs and merging with catholic schools, especially with regard to administration.

Justin Welby, current arch bishop of Canterbury was educated at Cambridge and Eton. He is a member of the house of Lords. Reportedly, prior to being ordained he worked for seven years in the oil industry, five for Elf Aquitaine. According to a report, between 1989 and 1991 Elf, founded by Charles de Gaulle became involved in what was described as a fraudulent scheme to develop a wave detector for oil exploration, costing £132 million, and became the subject of a merger. Reportedly, Justin Welby retired from the oil industry in 1989 and became ordained, he became arch bishop in 2013.

According to a report, in 1993 Elf acquired the exclusive contract to the Iraqi oil fields, and in 1994 became the subject of what was described as the biggest fraud enquiry since the second world war. Reportedly, in 2003 Iraqi born Nadhmi Auchi, founding president of the anglo arab association received a 15 month suspended sentence and a £1.5 million fine for his involvment in taking illegal commissions. According to a report, in 2000 Elf became Totalfina/Total decided to take legal action against Auchi, who in turn sued them for $327 million. Reportedly, until 2000 Nadhmi Auchi received money in a special account for oil for food programmes.

According to reports, Michail Gorbachev, last leader of the soviet union, originally followed Marxism-Leninism. Reportedly, following the deposition of the tsars, Lenin who was leader of one of three Marxist factions, supressed the opposition, creating a one party state whose policies superceded Marxism.

According to reports, Michail Gorbachev grew up under the rule of Joseph Stalin whose policies included the collectivisation of agriculture and intensive industrialisation, resulting in a united working class proletariat and wide spread forced labour. Reportedly, Stalin believed that residual bourgeois elements would persist and infiltrate the government. He was succeded by Lenin in 1924. According to a report, in 1929 Lenin suggested that dictatorship of the proletariat was the basis for a policy of ongoing repression of capitalist elements.

Reportedly, Michail Gorbachev, of Russian and Ukrainian heritage worked on a collective farm before studying law in Moscow where he met his wife, Raisa, a philisophy student. According to reports, in his early twenties he became involved in revolutionary de-Stalinisation which involved an end to forced labour camps and the freeing of prisoners. Reportedly, in 1970 at the age of 39 he was one of the youngest to join the communist party’s elite.

According to reports, during his office he took part in discussions with Ronald Reagan in order to limit nuclear weapons and end the cold war, which continued with George Bush. Reportedly, Gorbachev’s policies veered from Marxism-Leninism to social democracy and a market orientated economy, allowing the idea of elections and a multi party system. According to reports, the u.s. may have had a part in constituent nations opting to leave the russian federation. Reportedly, Gorbachev agreed to the reuniting of east and west Germany but was not in favour of Germany joining nato. According to a report, 14 former soviet and soviet aligned nations have since joined nato.

According to reports, Arthur Griffith was a writer who after a spell in south Africa founded and edited the Irish statesman newspaper. Reportedly, in 1905 he founded Sinn féin and was arrested in 1916 during the easter uprising. According to reports, he was minister for home affairs, then minister for foreign affairs, and was appointed chairman of the Irish delegation to negotiate the anglo Irish treaty of March 1922, of which he was a signatory.

Reportedly, the treaty which concluded the Irish war of independence created a so called free state within the British empire, except for northern Ireland, creating a rift in the Dáil and leading to the Irish civil war, consisting of pro and anti treaty factions.

According to reports, Eamon de Valera resigned after the treaty was narrowly approved in the Dàil. Reportedly, he was replaced by Arthur Griffith who died of a brain hemmorage in August 1922. According to reports, the treaty lost the support of Sinn féin, creating the need for a party to support the treaty. Cumann na nGaedheal, meaning society of Gaels became Fine gael in 1933.

According to reports, Sinn fein won the northern Ireland elections, the first nationalist party to win an election in northern Ireland since 1921. In a press conference shortly after the election the president of Sinn fein who elected Michelle O’Neill as first minister said the power sharing executive needed to be reestablished. Reportedly, sir Jeffrey Donaldson, leader of the dup said the dup would not enter into a power sharing government unless northern Ireland protocol was ditched, though checks have revealed some goods to be below standard. The people have spoken.

Election results were Sinn fein 27 seats, dup 25 seats and alliance party of northern Ireland, a centrist liberal party, 17 seats.

According to reports, northern Ireland elections were held Friday, with a turnout of 63%. Reportedly, Sinn fein are currently in the lead with the dup in second place.

According to a report, the leader of the dup has been in limbo between Westminster and Stormont. Reportedly, in May 2021 he delegated the job of first minister to Edwin Poots, who announced that he had been ordered that northern Ireland protocol should stop, and resigned after 21 days. According to reports, he was succeded by Paul Givan who resigned in February in protest about the northern Ireland protocol, effectively collapsing the executive assembly.

Reportedly, Sinn fein are in favour of the protocol.

According to a report, palestinian militant relocation to Lebanon was followed by a civil war lasting from 1975-1990. Reportedly, the plo fought the Christian dominated government along with sunni and shia factions. The large Lebanese Christian population may stem from the league of nations mandate for Lebanon and Syria, previously controlled by the Ottoman empire.

According to reports, the Lebanese government brokered a peace deal in 1976 which resulted in an arab league backed Syrian occupation. Reportedly, 270 documented plo attacks from Lebanon into Isreal resulted in an Israeli invasion and occupation of southern Lebanon where the idf worked with the Christian dominated south Lebanese army, pushing the plo north.

According to a report, a proposal to limit the plo guerilla presence in Lebanon was followed by the Taif agreement signed in Saudi Arabia in 1979, requiring the plo to disarm, but they refused.

According to reports, the attempted assasination of an israeli diplomat in London in 1982 resulted in Israel bombarding Beirut and cutting off food, water supplies and electricity, the plo were stationed in west Beirut. Reportedly, hezbolla, a shia political party and militant group became operational the same year, known to oppose Israel and be loyal to Iran.

Reportedly, tensions between sunnis and shias remained after the war. According to reports, the Lebanese armed forces have central government authority over about two thirds of the country, the Christian Muslim government ratio being 50;50 as per agreement.

Reportedly, there were protests beginning in 2006 against the saudi backed government followed by a battle between shia hezbolla and pro government sunnis resulting in hezbolla seizing west Beirut. According to a report, Israel carried out dozens of air campagns with the intention of preventing Iran from smuggling advanced weaponry to hezbolla. Reportedly, all militias except hezbolla have been disolved in Lebanon, and Palestinians were expelled. According to reports, Beirut is being rebuilt at a cost.

According to a report, Ukraine has blamed Russia for two explosions hitting radio antennas near the Ukraine border in Transnistria, a seperatist region of Moldova. Reportedly, Russia is cutting off natural gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria because of a failure to pay in rubles. According to the report, Poland are well prepared for the move after working to reduce their reliance on russian energy. Reportedly, Bulgaria get over 90% of their gas from Russia, and officials say they are working to find other sources.

According to a report, the u.s. have pressed its allies to move heaven and earth to keep Kyiv well supplied with arms as russian forces fire on eastern and southern Ukraine. Reportedly, the war has resulted in the deaths of 2,729 civilians and 2,500-3,000 ukrainian soldiers. According to a report, Ukraine say 21,900 russian soldiers including 300 officers have been killed, unconfirmed by Russia. The number of high ranking soldiers has been attributed to their presence on the battlefield and the special care taken to repatriate their bodies, but may suggest they were targeted.