Judge dismisses all charges in Panama Papers, Operation Car Wash cases (www.upi.com)
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UK: Welsh Government to introduce a law which will make it illegal for politicians to lie (www.bbc.com)
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Peru grants China's state-owned Cosco Shipping the exclusive right to operate its Chanchay port while pressure is built to construct a highway across the Amazon rainforest (www.asianews.it)
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Indonesia to impose up to 200% tariffs to counter cheap textile imports from China after protests of Indonesian workers (www.bloomberg.com)
Indonesia is preparing to impose tariffs and use other means to protect its textile industry from imports from China, the latest in a series of countries and blocs such as the US and the European Union, which are responding to the flood of goods out of the world’s largest manufacturing nation....
German government examines deal for the supply of Chinese wind turbines for an offshore project in the German North Sea over security concerns
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Hurricane Beryl roars toward Jamaica after battering southeast Caribbean islands (www.npr.org)
China and Russia jointly develop strike drones, Ukraine allies worry about Beijing may boost production, European officials say (eutoday.net)
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German government blocks planned sale of VW's gas turbine business to China over security concerns (www.reuters.com)
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Taiwan says China’s coast guard has detained a Taiwanese fishing vessel with six crew onboard and demands its release (apnews.com)
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Forced relocation in Tibet: the downside of China’s poverty reduction strategy (iari.site)
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Here are key takeaways from France's election round 1, where the far right prevails (www.npr.org)
Taiwan raises travel alert for Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau over Beijing's new judicial guidelines introducing death penalty for supporters of Taiwanese independence (www.jurist.org)
Taiwan’s government raised the travel alert for Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau to “orange” level and advised people to avoid non-essential travelling. The Council claimed that because the Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau have continued to amend or issue legal documents relating to national security in recent years,...
Italy: lawyers file complaints of Uyghur forced labour over tomato paste exported from China's Xinjiang region (www.tomatonews.com)
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Released Gaza Hospital Director Says He Was Tortured in Israeli Detention (truthout.org)
US, Europe Warn Lebanon’s Hezbollah to Ease Strikes on Israel and Back off from Wider Mideast War (english.aawsat.com)
US, European and Arab mediators are pressing to keep stepped-up cross-border attacks between Israel and Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah fighters from spiraling into a wider Middle East war that the world has feared for months. Iran and Israel traded threats Saturday of what Iran said would be an "obliterating" war over...
China: New guidelines are an unacceptable escalation in attack on Taiwan’s freedom of expression, rights group says (www.article19.org)
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South China Sea: Chinese academics urged to ‘construct narratives’ to defend maritime claims by China (www.scmp.com)
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China’s Spate of Violence Prompts Outburst of Economic Anxiety on Social Media (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
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