Wed 08 June 2022: Not only in Asia, but around the world, Google is witnessing increasing pressure on journalists and a deterioration of press freedom. Despite this, Google News Lab, which is part of the Google News Initiative (GNI), is led by Irene Jay Liu, who says there is a strong sense of mission and […]
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Wed 08 June 2022: According to local media, thousands of Australian public service workers protested across New South Wales (NSW), Australia’s most populous state, on Wednesday, demanding higher pay. They also went on strike for a day, demanding a 5.4 percent pay increase due to the country’s skyrocketing cost of living, according to Sky News. […]
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Israel’s assault on Gaza in 2021 killed at least 260 people, including 67 children, and wounded more than 2,200, according to the UN [File Photo] Wed 08 June 2022: Independent commission set up by UN human rights council says Israel needs to end occupation, cease violating Palestinians’ human rights. An independent commission of inquiry set […]
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Wed 08 June 2022: On Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Turkey for a two-day visit to discuss unblocking grain supplies from Ukraine, which have been stalled by Moscow’s offensive. According to an AFP photographer, the jet carrying Lavrov landed at the airport in Ankara, Turkey’s capital. This is Lavrov’s second trip to […]
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Wed 08 June 2022: A US inspector general probe concluded that former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his advisers fled the country with only about $500,000, as opposed to the millions of Dollars reported by the media. As the Taliban entered Kabul in August of 2021, reports surfaced that Ghani and his senior advisers fled […]
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Wed 08 June 2022: Alexei Navalny, the imprisoned Russian opposition leader, has lost an appeal against a decision by prison officials to declare him “inclined to commit terrorist or extremist crimes.” Navalny, who has been behind bars since January 2021, was first designated by the penitentiary authorities as a flight risk, which implied additional checks […]
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Tue 07 June 2022: On Tuesday, the founder of a banned far-right terror organisation in the United Kingdom was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison. Last month, Alex Davies, the founder of National Action, was convicted on terrorism charges. At the court, he was dubbed the “extremist’s extremist” Davies is the last of the proscribed […]
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Tue 07 June 2022: The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has revealed that it is “open” to working and coordinating with Syrian regime forces in order to repel an incoming Turkish military operation in north-east Syria. Speaking to the news agency, Reuters, yesterday, the SDF’s commander-in-chief, Mazloum Abdi, said that military coordination with the Bashar Al-Assad’s regime […]
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Tue 07 June 2022: Germany’s chancellor said Tuesday that NATO members are committed to defending every centimeter of the alliance’s territory. Germany will boost its commitment to NATO’s eastern flank, according to Olaf Scholz. “We will create a strong brigade, have discussed that with each other and will have to work on this,” Scholz said […]
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Tue 07 June 2022: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro praised his Mexican counterpart for skipping the Americas Summit on Monday. Maduro applauded Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s “clarity and courage” in a video message broadcast to his Twitter account, adding that the US’s failure to invite countries like Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to the summit […]
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