How Chinese AI turned a Ukrainian YouTuber into a Russian ( www.bbc.com )
"I don't want anyone to think that I ever said these horrible things in my life. Using a Ukrainian girl for a face promoting Russia. It's crazy.”...
The New Propaganda War: Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world ( www.theatlantic.com )
Here is the archived version....
Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic ( www.reuters.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/13270546
Spain denies port of call to ship carrying arms to Israel ( www.theguardian.com )
Australian helicopter forced to take evasive action after Chinese fighter intercepts with flares ( www.abc.net.au )
New Vatican document lists ‘grave violations’ of human dignity ( www.vaticannews.va )
This transphobic, anti-gender theory, anti-abortion doctrine of theirs has me completely done with them....
Death toll at Hajj pilgrimage rises to 1,300 amid scorching temperatures ( apnews.com )
Russia-China gas pipeline deal stalls over what Moscow says Beijing's unreasonable price demands in major blow for Putin ( www.reuters.com )
Here is the paywalled article...
'Mitigating factors’: Russian soldiers found guilty in domestic violence cases are getting off with just small fines ( meduza.io )
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Wikileaks' Julian Assange given permission to appeal against U.S. extradition, UK court rules ( www.reuters.com )
WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange's battle to avoid extradition to the United States received a huge boost on Monday when London's High Court ruled that U.S. assurances over his case were unsatisfactory and he would get a full appeal hearing....
Former spy for China's secret police reveals operations targeting dissidents in Australia and overseas ( www.abc.net.au )
The inner workings of China's notorious secret police unit and how it hunts down dissidents living overseas – including in Australia – have been exposed by a former spy in a Four Corners investigation, raising tough questions about Australia's national security....
Chinese police activity in Hungary 'a significant risk to EU security', group of European lawmakers warns ( www.reneweuropegroup.eu )
The Hungarian government's invitation to Chinese police officers to patrol in Hungary poses a threat to European security and in particular the freedoms of Europe's Chinese diaspora....
Israeli Attack on Rafah Tent Camp Kills Dozens, Wounds 50 ( truthout.org )
Coke—and Dozens of Others—Pledged to Quit Russia. They’re Still There. ( www.bloomberg.com )
After Vladimir Putin’s troops surged over the Ukrainian border in February 2022, the Coca-Cola Co. was among the first multinationals to pledge it would quit Russia in protest. Aiming to avoid the inevitable headaches of complying with expected Western sanctions on the Kremlin, Coke asked its partners there to pull its cans...
At least 550 hajj pilgrims die in scorching temperatures ( www.abc.net.au )
What it's like living through a 121 degree day [in New Delhi] ( www.npr.org )
"Training future authoritarians": How China promotes its authoritarian capitalism model by teaching government officials in the Global South on how to infringe people's freedom and undermine democracy ( www.atlanticcouncil.org )
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Espionage: In seemingly the first case of its kind, the US has charged a Chinese national with using a drone to photograph a shipyard where the US Navy was assembling nuclear submarines ( www.wired.com )
The United States Department of Justice is quietly prosecuting a novel Espionage Act case involving a drone, a Chinese national, and classified nuclear submarines....
France declares state of emergency, bans TikTok in New Caledonia amid deadly riots ( www.scmp.com )
Gaza’s new terror: Booby-trapped cans of food for the unwary --- UPDATE: please see comment in the thread ( news.un.org )
A 14-year-old boy was seriously injured and sustained limb amputations after opening a booby-trapped can of food found while looking for his belongings in his house that had been shelled by Israeli forces in Khan Younis,” the UN aid coordination office (OCHA) said, citing the Strip’s authorities....
Congress threatens International Criminal Court over Israeli arrest warrants ( www.axios.com )
Afghan girls as young as 16 arrested in shops, classes and markets in Kabul by the Taliban, who labelled them ‘infidels’ for wearing ‘bad hijab’ ( www.theguardian.com )
The girls – who were detained in shopping centres, classes and street markets – were accused of “spreading and encouraging others to wear a bad hijab” and wearing makeup....
"Wind and solar power pollute the Earth and make life miserable:" DeSantis's Florida Approves Climate-Denial Videos in Schools ( www.scientificamerican.com )
Inside the Chinese-funded and staffed marijuana farms springing up across the U.S. ( www.npr.org )
Investigations by nonprofit news outlet ProPublica have found links between Chinese diplomats, Chinese Communist Party-affiliated organizations, local Chinese criminal syndicates and some marijuana operations in the United States....
China Changes Hundreds of Uyghur Village Names as Part of Broader Government Effort to Erase Uyghur Culture in Xinjiang ( www.hrw.org )
Chinese authorities in Xinjiang have been systematically changing hundreds of village names with religious, historical, or cultural meaning for Uyghurs into names reflecting recent Chinese Communist Party ideology, Human Rights Watch said....
