Explainer-Why are South Korean trainee doctors on strike over medical school quotas? | Reuters (www.yahoo.com)
SEOUL (Reuters) - Almost 8,000 trainee doctors have walked off the job in South Korea to protest a government plan to admit more students to medical schools, and more are expected to join them....
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China’s coast guard has triggered ‘panic’ in Taiwan. That’s only part of Beijing’s plan (www.cnn.com)
King Xia, a Taiwanese tourist boat, was taking 23 passengers on a journey around Taiwan’s outlying Kinmen Islands just miles from China’s southeastern coast when it was intercepted by two Chinese coast guard vessels....
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A ship carrying 19,000 cattle caused a big stink in the South African city of Cape Town (apnews.com)
What stinks?...
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Hundreds are set to descend on Tahiti for Olympic surfing. Can locals protect their way of life? (apnews.com)
In response to criticism, now 98% of Olympic housing will be within the homes of locals, with athletes accommodated on a cruise ship anchored nearby. The size of the judging tower has been scaled back and new infrastructure plans are being drawn up to minimize the need for new construction....
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Japan to launch world’s first wooden satellite to combat space pollution (www.theguardian.com)
The environmentally friendly LignaSat probe – set to orbit this summer – has been created to combat harmful aluminium particles...
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Beijing criticizes proposed US sanctions — RT World News (www.rt.com)
”China has the right to conduct normal cooperation with countries around the world. We have always opposed unilateral sanctions and ‘long-arm jurisdiction’ that have no basis in international law and are not authorized by the UN Security Council,” Chinese FM spokeswoman Mao Ning said in response to Washington’s...
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Yulia Navalnaya urges West not to recognise Russia's March election (www.reuters.com)
“Do not recognise these elections,” Navalnaya told European Union foreign ministers at a meeting in Brussels on Monday, according to a transcript supplied on Tuesday by a spokeswoman....
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Exclusive: ADL pushed BMG to drop Roger Waters by threatening to weaponize company’s Nazi past - The Grayzone (thegrayzone.com)
The Grayzone has obtained a private letter authored by ADL director Jonathan Greenblatt threatening to weaponize the Nazi past of the BMG music company unless executives terminated a major deal with Roger Waters. BMG has publicly denied Israel lobby influence on its decision to nix Waters’ contract.
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High court rejects legal challenge over UK arms sales to Israel (www.theguardian.com)
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Denmark to send its 'entire artillery' to Ukraine, the country's prime minister says (www.businessinsider.com)
Denmark is sending all of its artillery to Ukraine, the Danish prime minister has said....
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US-Russian dual citizen arrested for treason, accused of collecting funds for Ukraine | CNN (www.cnn.com)
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Russia adds Republican senator Lindsey Graham to ‘terrorists and extremists’ list (www.theguardian.com)
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Putin gifts car to Kim Jong Un in sign of ‘special personal relations,’ North Korean state media reports | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
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Great Nicobar: Indian president visits island as fears grow for tribe (www.bbc.co.uk)
India’s president has made a whistle stop tour of an island earmarked for multi-billion dollar development that experts warn could wipe out the indigenous tribe which calls it home.
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Police called to investigate alleged LGBTQ+ propaganda at Russian 'My Little Pony' convention (abcnews.go.com)
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US vetoes another UN Security Council resolution urging Gaza war ceasefire (www.aljazeera.com)
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Blasting Bullhorns and Water Cannons, Chinese Ships Wall Off the Sea (www.nytimes.com)
The article provided a good overview of the situation and firsthand accounts, plus marked up maps. The maps make it clear just how ridiculous their claims are. It’s like a modern “manifest destiny” philosophy.
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Alexei Navalny was killed ‘by punch to the heart’ (www.thetimes.co.uk)
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Prince William calls for Israel-Hamas fighting to end ‘as soon as possible’ (www.independent.co.uk)
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Hindu nationalists go to court over lion named after Muslim emperor in India (www.theguardian.com)
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El Salvador's Bukele wins supermajority in Congress after painstaking vote count (apnews.com)
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and his New Ideas party have won the supermajority the leader needs in Congress to govern as he pleases, electoral officials announced Monday....
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Estonia Thwarts Russian Security Services' 'Hybrid Operation' (www.dagens.com)
On February 20, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas announced the thwarting of a ‘hybrid operation’ conducted by Russian security services within Estonia’s borders. This operation, as reported by the Estonian news outlet ERR, involved the detention of 10 individuals linked to various offenses, notably the vandalism of...
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More than half the world faces high measles risk, WHO says (www.reuters.com)
More than half the world’s countries will be at high or very high risk of measles outbreaks by the end of the year unless urgent preventative measures are taken, the World Health Organization warned on Tuesday....
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Israel orders evacuations in Gaza City, as U.N. suspends food deliveries to the north because of looting. (www.nytimes.com)
MFBC...
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