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Pelosi’s ‘reckless’ Taiwan visit deepens US-China rupture – why did she go?
The Observer 07 Aug 2022
Roy Blunt lived up his surname when he said this week. “So I’m about to use four words in a row that I haven’t used in this way before, and those four words are. ‘Speaker Pelosi was right.’”. The Republican senator was praising Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, the first by a speaker of the US House of Representatives in a quarter of a century ... “Yes ... .
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Amnesty regrets ‘distress’ caused by report rebuking Ukraine
FX Empire 07 Aug 2022
KYIV (Reuters) – Amnesty International apologised on Sunday for “distress and anger” caused by a report accusing Ukraine of endangering civilians which infuriated President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and triggered the resignation of its Kviy office head ... “Amnesty International’s priority in this and in any conflict is ensuring that civilians are protected.
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Nuclear apocalypse was postponed in 1968. Now it’s back on the agenda
The Observer 07 Aug 2022
The review conference of the landmark 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty (NPT) involves 191 state party signatories ... There are no Greenham Commons nowadays, even though new missile deployments proliferate ... Last year, however, Boris Johnson’s government relaxed Britain’s no-first-use doctrine to allow a UK nuclear response to a non-nuclear attack ... .
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Chinese and Taiwanese warships eye each other as drills due to end
The Philadelphia Inquirer 07 Aug 2022
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Gazans said they got 15 minute warning before Israeli strikes destroyed homes
The Philadelphia Inquirer 07 Aug 2022photo: AP / Eugene Hoshiko
Canada to investigate police handling of Senegal diplomat
Arab News 07 Aug 2022
OTTAWA ... It said it had summoned the Canadian representative to “vigorously denounce and strongly condemn the racist and barbaric act.” ... At no time, according to police, did the woman complain of any pain or injury, though later in the day police were called back by paramedics seeking “assistance when they were working with this person.” ... ....
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DC insider: Deleted Jan. 6 texts are ‘very clearly a conspiracy’
Alternet 07 Aug 2022
... it was that “as far as we know, they were no civilian deaths” even though the operation was carried out in the middle of Downtown Kabul ... Panetta told Mitchell, “The Taliban is now in charge of Afghanistan; there’s no question that they’re providing a safe haven for terrorists….
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China Locks Down World’s Largest Wholesale Hub, South China Sea Port Due to New COVID-19 Outbreak
The Epoch Times 07 Aug 2022
The Chinese communist regime has put the world largest wholesale hub, Yiwu city in east China, under semi lockdown due to a new outbreak of COVID-19 ... 4 ... ....
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Colombia’s first-ever leftist president sworn in
Manila Standard 07 Aug 2022
“Here begins a government that will fight for environmental justice,” he added ... Petro starts from an “enviable position, with a large majority in Congress and, in terms of the street, with support that no government had in recent years,” analyst Jorge Restrepo of the Resource Center for Conflict Analysis (Cerac) told AFP ... .
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If America Falls to Marxists, Western Civilization Will Follow: Farage
The Epoch Times 07 Aug 2022
“Ladies and gentlemen, we are under attack,” said Farage, the past leader of Great Britain’s Brexit Party ... ....
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China and US lead the world on joint research output but that is changing, warns study
South China Morning Post 07 Aug 2022
Growing bilateral geopolitical tensions in the past five years have come to a head over US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit ... .
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Seventeen missing and 121 hurt as fire rages in Cuban oil tank farm
Belfast Telegraph 07 Aug 2022
Authorities said about 800 people were evacuated from the Dubrocq neighbourhood closest to the fire ... AP/PA Images. / ... Enter email address ... There were no deaths ... There was no immediate word on how much oil had burned or was in danger at the storage facility, which has eight giant tanks that hold oil used to fuel electricity generating plants ... Most Read ... .
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‘When I see kids vaping, I warn them: that’s what killed my daughter’
The Observer 07 Aug 2022
Teenager Rosey Christoffersen loved football from an early age, with her enthusiasm matched by a talent for scoring goals ... “There would be coconut, cherry, bubblegum vapes ... No inquest was held into Christoffersen’s death, and over the years her mother has researched online the links between e-cigarettes and potentially deadly lung conditions ... He said.
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Twitter Permanently Bans Author James Lindsay
The Epoch Times 07 Aug 2022
Twitter has permanently banned author James Lindsay for calling a transgender attorney a “child sexualization specialist” on the social media platform ... ....
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Ukraine: Amnesty Int'l report sparks furor, resignation
The Buffalo News 06 Aug 2022
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The head of Amnesty International’s Ukraine chapter has resigned, saying the human rights organization shot down her opposition to publishing a report that claimed Ukrainian forces had exposed civilians to Russian attacks by basing themselves in populated areas ... People are also reading… ... No ... All rights reserved ... ....