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Pelosi’s ‘reckless’ Taiwan visit deepens US-China rupture – why did she go?
The Observer 07 Aug 2022
“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 ... 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 ... “Pelosi wanted to convey our commitment and resolve.
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Nuclear apocalypse was postponed in 1968. Now it’s back on the agenda
The Observer 07 Aug 2022
Up to now, at least, it’s helped stop another nuclear catastrophe ... The 77th anniversary of the first such catastrophe was commemorated on 6 August at Hiroshima, where an estimated 140,000 civilians died, or were condemned to an agonising death, on one day in 1945 ... Beijing’s arsenal is predicted to more than double in the next decade.
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Amnesty regrets ‘distress’ caused by report rebuking Ukraine
FX Empire 07 Aug 2022
The rights group published the report on Thursday saying the presence of Ukrainian troops in residential areas heightened risks to civilians during Russia’s invasion. “Amnesty International deeply regrets the distress and anger that our press release on the Ukrainian military’s fighting tactics has caused,” it said in an email to Reuters.
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Canada to investigate police handling of Senegal diplomat
Arab News 07 Aug 2022photo: AP / Chiang Ying-ying
Chinese and Taiwanese warships eye each other as drills due to end
The Philadelphia Inquirer 07 Aug 2022
... before the scheduled end of four days of unprecedented Chinese military exercises launched in reaction to a visit to Taiwan by the U.S.
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Seventeen missing and 121 hurt as fire rages in Cuban oil tank farm
Belfast Telegraph 07 Aug 2022
Firefighters and other specialists were still trying to quell the blaze at the Matanzas Supertanker Base on Saturday, where the fire began during a thunderstorm on Friday night, the Ministry of Energy and Mines tweeted. Authorities said about 800 people were evacuated from the Dubrocq neighbourhood closest to the fire.
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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 ... According to ...
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Twitter Permanently Bans Author James Lindsay
The Epoch Times 07 Aug 2022photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
Gazans said they got 15 minute warning before Israeli strikes destroyed homes
The Philadelphia Inquirer 07 Aug 2022
... moved into its second day on Saturday, residents of houses targeted for destruction said they were given 15 minutes warning to evacuate.
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‘When I see kids vaping, I warn them: that’s what killed my daughter’
The Observer 07 Aug 2022
“I’m gassed,” she would tell her coach at Wallasey Wanderers in Wirral as she struggled with exhaustion, asking to be pulled off at half-time. She was also complaining to her family of pains in her chest ... She was assured by her local GP surgery that the discomfort in her chest was likely to be a pulled muscle.
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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.
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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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Colombia’s first-ever leftist president sworn in
Manila Standard 07 Aug 2022
At a ceremony in Bogota on the eve of his inauguration, Petro said his government would aim to “bring to Colombia what it has not had for centuries, which is tranquility and peace.” ... The former mayor of Bogota has also vowed to pursue negotiations with the National Liberation Army (ELN) armed group.
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The fate of Alex Jones is a small battle won in the war against alternative facts
The Observer 07 Aug 2022
The trial of Alex Jones, the far-right conspiracy theorist, who for years propagated the lie that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax, has produced some remarkable moments over the past week, not least when Jones was told that his own attorney had accidentally released two years’ worth of Jones’s text messages to his legal adversaries.
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Ivory Coast president pardons predecessor, Laurent Gbagbo
Al Jazeera 07 Aug 2022
Gbagbo, president from 2000-2011, returned to Ivory Coast last year after being acquitted in 2019 by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague on war crimes charges for his role in a civil war sparked by his refusal to concede defeat after the 2010 election ... Gbagbo governed from 2000 until his election defeat to Ouattara in 2010.