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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the 16 state governors agreed on new and stricter measures to curb the high number of migrants flowing into the country, reaching a compromise on an issue that has become a huge political problem for the government and a hot-button topic in society....

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/7946281...

South Korean authorities cited the risk of Chinese economic retaliation when they charged marine technology firm SI Innotec last year with violating trade laws for its work on Taiwan’s new military submarine program, according to a police document seen by Reuters and two people familiar with the matter....

US-China tensions and the war in Ukraine are already swinging investments to like-minded countries — a sign that companies are making geopolitical bets.

Japan’s release of contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has been carried out stably and as planned, with no abnormalities detected so far, a Korean official said Friday....

Despite the progressive Constitution giving it nearly all the thrust it needed to become a secular state, it could never become that.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has urged the country’s arms industry to increase production of missiles and artillery in order to have “overwhelming military power” and be ready for war, state media KCNA reported on Monday....

On Monday, Economy Minister Sergio Massa announced that Argentina will pay US$2.7 billion to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) through resources obtained via an agreement with China and a loan from the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF)....

Demonstrations have been held in several Muslim countries in recent weeks in response to the repeated desecration and burning of the Quran in Sweden and Denmark....

Here is the situation on Saturday, July 29, 2023....

Hilariously it wasn’t easy finding a source that wasn’t bias or factually off.

TAIPEI, July 27 (Reuters) - Southern Taiwan on Thursday shut businesses and schools while airlines cancelled hundreds of flights amid warnings of landslides and floods as Typhoon Doksuri churned past the island en route to China where it will make landfall later this week....

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Kyiv’s counteroffensive was failing despite military and financial support from Western countries. “Neither the colossal resources that have been pumped into the Kyiv regime nor the supplies of Western weapons, tanks, artillery, armoured vehicles and missiles are helping,” he said....