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The Social Cost of Carbon Credits (hakaimagazine.com)

Multinational companies funded a US $4.4-million carbon offset project. Senegalese locals did much of the work—and saw almost none of the money.

Planes grounded as mass worldwide IT outage hits airlines, media and banks (www.bbc.com)

Philippines and Japan finalize bi-lateral security pact over China’s increasingly aggressive behaviour in South China Sea and Taiwan Strait (www.lowyinstitute.org)

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German court sentences dual German-Russian citizen to six years and nine months in prison for selling electronics to Russian companies for military use in violation of sanctions (www.reuters.com)

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DDoSecrets Mirrors Wikileaks Data After Assange Plea Deal (www.404media.co)

Unable to earn enough at home, Syrian opposition fighters are travelling via Turkey to Africa to work as mercenaries, often under Russian command (www.bbc.com)

Since December 2023, more than 1,000 Syrian fighters have travelled to Niger via Turkey, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which monitors the conflict in Syria through a network of sources on the ground. They tend to sign up for six months, but some have now extended the contract to a year....

Thailand's economy: factory closures due to cheap Chinese imports with job losses jumping by 80% within one year (www.reuters.com)

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How health burdens have shifted over 4 decades: Infections down in India, lifestyle disorders up in China, and rising mental health issues in the U.S. (aditya-dahiya.github.io)

The dataset from Our World in Data provides comprehensive information on Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) for various health conditions. The data is sourced from the IHME’s Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study and spans from 1990 to 2021. It was last updated on May 20, 2024. Detailed data can be retrieved from the Global...

EU should add China's Xinjiang region and the aluminum sector to Forced Labor Database, rights groups says (www.hrw.org)

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"Their goal Is total ethnic cleansing of the Gaza people": Physician Mustafa Barghouti on Israel’s expulsion order for Gaza City (www.democracynow.org)

A panel of United Nations independent experts has accused Israel of engaging in a campaign of starvation and genocide in Gaza as the effects of the famine are being felt across Gaza. Palestinian physician and activist Mustafa Barghouti says “what we see today is a purposeful act of starvation” and that the real intention of...

Taiwan monitors Chinese military surge, calls China a threat to stability (www.rappler.com)

In its daily update on Chinese military activity over the past 24 hours, released on Thursday morning, Taiwan’s defense ministry said it had detected 66 Chinese military aircraft around the island....

In a first, Japan arrests Russian national over suspected illegal exports of technology that could be diverted for military use in Russia's war in Ukraine (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)

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Latvian and Estonian court documents show how the Russian government is recruiting Baltic citizens to vandalize and set fire to targets in the West (theins.press)

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Gaza death toll: how many Palestinians has Israel's campaign killed (www.reuters.com)

Russian attack on Children's Hospital in Kyiv: Molfar OSINT group identifies 95 war criminals involved in the shelling, publishes their names and personal details (molfar.com)

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More Taiwanese detained or face trials when traveling to China since Beijing implemented 'Anti-Espionage Law' (www.taipeitimes.com)

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After nine months of war in Gaza, another UN school suffers Israeli airstrike (news.un.org)

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China’s spluttering growth engines: The distortions of Beijing’s unbalanced growth model are coming home to roost, setting the country on path towards ever greater trade confrontation (www.lowyinstitute.org)

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Philippines and Japan sign defence pact, with eyes on China (www.euractiv.com)

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Xi Jinping visits Kazakhstan and Tajikistan for SCO summit (www.helsinkitimes.fi)

I’m curious how the Russian Federation feels regarding the People’s Republic of China attempting to curry favor in Central Asia

Human Rights NGOs urge Austria to investigate sexual crimes by Russia military in Ukraine (www.jurist.org)

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Former head of the EU Chamber of Commerce in Beijing: "The playing field for China is getting narrower and narrower" (themarket.ch)

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Russia: jailed Kremlin-critic Kara-Murza transfered to prison hospital, laywers denied access (www.themoscowtimes.com)

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China has installed a buoy in the seas over Japan's southern continental shelf in the Pacific Ocean, in a move that could undermine Japan's maritime interests and further strain bilateral relations (mainichi.jp)

-Japan confirmed that the Chinese survey ship Xiang Yang Hong 22 set up the buoy in mid-June while monitoring the vessel as it sailed through Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the East China Sea, a government source said. The open-sea area in question is surrounded by Japan’s EEZ....