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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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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School children in Hong Kong sang Chinese anthem "too softly" (www.bbc.com)
Hong Kong officials have singled out at least two schools for singing the Chinese national anthem “too softly”. Teachers at a third school have been asked to help students “cultivate habit and confidence” in singing it....
Afghan girls accuse Taliban of sexual assault after arrests for ‘bad hijab’ (www.theguardian.com)
Reports surface days before UN summit on Afghanistan that will exclude Afghan women and debate on women’s rights...
Chinese Government Rejects Key Human Rights Recommendations in Latest UN Review (safeguarddefenders.com)
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Julian Assange Free on Bail, Departs UK for Australia! (twitter.com)
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Israel’s War On Gaza Is the Deadliest Conflict On Record for Journalists (theintercept.com)
Autocracy is ‘evil,’ Taiwan president says after China threatens death for separatism (www.nbcnews.com)
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Russian government accused of leaving citizens vulnerable to attacks like Sunday's gun rampages by turning the state's security apparatus on Kremlin critics instead of terrorist threats (www.reuters.com)
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Bank of China halts payments with sanctioned Russian lenders, Russian media reports (www.themoscowtimes.com)
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Inside the Chinese-funded and staffed marijuana farms springing up across the U.S. (www.npr.org)
Investigations by nonprofit news outlet ProPublica have found links between Chinese diplomats, Chinese Communist Party-affiliated organizations, local Chinese criminal syndicates and some marijuana operations in the United States....
Death toll at Hajj pilgrimage rises to 1,300 amid scorching temperatures (apnews.com)
Canada expresses concern about human rights violations in China's Xinjiang region, groups urge U.N. human rights chief to take more action over "documented abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslims" (www.reuters.com)
Canada’s ambassador to Beijing visited the region of Xinjiang last week and expressed concerns about human rights violations directly to local leaders, the Canadian foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday....
Rio-bound Boeing 777 returns to Amsterdam over tech issue – DW – 06/23/2024 (www.dw.com)
An unspecified technical problem forced the Rio-bound Boeing aircraft to turn back shortly after takeoff from Amsterdam. A spokesperson for Dutch air traffic control said the plane requested to land as a precaution and turned around over Belgium some 40 minutes after takeoff.
Barcelona plans to shut all holiday apartments by 2028 (www.reuters.com)
Russia: State-owned energy giant Gazprom is expecting difficult decade due to loss of European markets, new report commissioned by its management finds (www.civilnet.am)
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Israeli Attack on Rafah Tent Camp Kills Dozens, Wounds 50 (truthout.org)
"Completely different creatures, but they learn to get along and be each other's family": Escaped pet donkey found 'living best life' with elk (www.bbc.com)
A pet donkey that escaped his owners five years ago in California has been found “living his best life” with a herd of wild elk....
Taiwan slams China death penalty for 'diehard' Taiwan independence advocates as 'Beijing has no jurisdiction over Taiwan' (focustaiwan.tw)
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