China’s trade with ASEAN faces more barriers amid fears of Chinese export overcapacity, imbalance (cargreen.es)
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China’s Great Wall of Villages: China has built over 50 new villages along its western frontiers in recent years, 12 of them in areas claimed by other countries, satellite imagery finds (www.nytimes.com)
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Putin's invasion of Ukraine after 900 days of war: 500,000 Russian soldiers died, $211bn warfare costs (www.forcesnews.com)
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Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant: Ukraine and Russia trade blame over fire - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Both sides say there has been no detected radiation spike at the occupied Zaporizhzhia plant.
Ukrainian and Russian troops are gearing up for a showdown in western Russia (www.npr.org)
India wants to make influencers register with the government (restofworld.org)
China lists 10 Taiwan ‘diehard separatists’ for potential death sentence in absentia, calls for people to denounce their supporters (www.tibetanreview.net)
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Disguised ships and front companies: how North Korea has evaded sanctions to grow a global weapons industry (theconversation.com)
Enforcement of United Nations sanctions against North Korea has actually been eroding for years. The final coup de grace came in March when Russia vetoed the renewal of a committee known as the Panel of Experts, which was tasked with monitoring and reporting on North Korean sanctions violations....
Israel broadens its evacuation orders after deadly strike on Gaza school-turned-shelter (apnews.com)
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military ordered more evacuations in southern Gaza early Sunday after a deadly airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in the north killed at least 80 Palestinians, according to local health authorities. Israel said it targeted a militant command post, killing 19 fighters....
A man is seen climbing the Eiffel Tower, prompting an evacuation hours before closing ceremony (apnews.com)
PARIS (AP) — French police have evacuated the area around the Eiffel Tower after a man was seen climbing the Paris landmark hours before the Olympics closing ceremony Sunday....
"If you save Ukraine, you will help a free Russia:" Freed Russian prisoner Ilya Yashin urges supporters to 'save Ukraine' in Berlin (www.euronews.com)
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‘Another day of horror’: UN rights office condemns Israeli strikes at Gazan school (news.un.org)
At around 4:30am on Saturday, a mosque inside Al Tabaeen School was struck by the Israeli Forces “at least three times”, the UN rights office, OHCHR, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory said in a statement, adding that the attacks were “conducted with apparent disregard for the high rate of civilian fatalities”....
Ukraine was biding its time: while outside analysts downplayed their chances, the Ukrainians were quietly planning an offensive across the Russian border (www.theatlantic.com)
Earlier this week, reports began filtering in that Ukrainian forces had entered Russia’s Kursk province, in what many analysts assumed was a small cross-border raid—of a sort that Ukraine has attempted a few times since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. But as the hours and days ticked by and Ukrainian forces moved...
Philippines accuses China air force of 'dangerous' acts in Scarborough Shoal within Philippine maritime zones (www.gmanetwork.com)
It was the first time the Philippines has complained of dangerous actions by Chinese aircraft, as opposed to navy or coast guard vessels, since President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took office in 2022....
Secure Jobs, Uncertain Future: China’s Growing Appetite for Government Employment (www.cfr.org)
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Iraq Proposes Law To Reduce Legal Age Of Marriage For Girls To 9 (www.ndtv.com)
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Authoritarian China model facing 'increasing failure' as country's economy needs 'less government intervention and more market' to restore confidence, Chinese economist says (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
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Western allies condemn Israeli finance minister's remarks that starving Gaza "might be just and moral" (www.euronews.com)
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Canada and Australia, expressing alarm at China's claims over the disputed waters of the South China Sea, signal more military cooperation (www.straitstimes.com)
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Taylor Swift Vienna concerts cancelled after attack threat (www.bbc.com)
'How could I have become so evil': Jewish-French director grapples with antisemitism (www.haaretz.com)
In an op-ed for France's Le Monde, Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius expresses fear over the dramatic change in the way the world perceives Jewish people, as if being Jewish had become something really murky, vaguely suspect, possibly detestable.'
UK police deploying 6,000 specially trained officers this week as more far-right disorder expected (apnews.com)
Is there a good reason why journalists keep calling this “far-right disorder” instead of what it really is: Fascist Terrorism?
‘I put myself in this trap’ In his own words, one gay Russian official describes working for a government that doesn’t believe he should exist (meduza.io)
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Brothers in oppression: Pakistan learning tricks of rights violations from China (morungexpress.com)
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"It is a dictatorial policy": A former detainee in China's Xinjiang region on her time in prison and Chinese politics (uyghurtimes.com)
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