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Canada’s national police force shuts down ‘Chinese police stations’
Anadolu Agency 01 Jun 2023
Police in Canada said Thursday that they have shut down so-called “Chinese police stations” that serve as bases to launch intimidation against Chinese Canadians. . The stations had been operating in the provinces of British Columbia, Quebec and Ontario, said the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) ... .
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UN warns of new threat to global food security after Russia limits Ukraine grain shipments
Arab News 02 Jun 2023
NEW YORK. Warning of a new threat to global food security, the United Nations said Thursday that Russia is limiting the number of ships allowed to pick up Ukrainian grain at Black Sea ports in its campaign to get Kyiv to open a pipeline for a key ingredient of fertilizer to get to world markets ... Odesa, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny ... Following Russia’s Feb.
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Biden falls on stage at Air Force graduation but is 'fine,' according to spokesperson
Politico 01 Jun 2023photo: AP / Carl Court, Pool
French president calls for new elections in Kosovo’s northern districts
Anadolu Agency 02 Jun 2023
French President Emmanuel Macron called Thursday for new elections in four northern municipalities of Kosovo after a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. ... "We have asked both sides to organize new elections in these four municipalities soon, ensuring meaningful participation from the Serbian side,” said Macron ... .
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Zimbabwean parliament passes 'controversial' Patriotic Bill
Anadolu Agency 01 Jun 2023
The Zimbabwean parliament has passed a "controversial" Patriotic Bill that criminalizes any citizen who meets with foreign diplomats or foreign government functionaries in terms of association, assembly, and speech ... Anyone found in violation of the new law, according to the bill, will be arrested and imprisoned ... This Bill must become law." ... 23 ... .
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Brazil’s Congress weakens environmental, Indigenous ministries
Al Jazeera 01 Jun 2023
Brazil’s conservative-majority Congress has voted to scale back the authority of two ministries dedicated to upholding Indigenous rights and protecting the environment, following opposition from the South American nation’s powerful agribusiness industry ... The measure easily passed in the lower house of Congress a day earlier ... .
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Iowa building collapse: engineer’s report indicated risk of imminent crumbling
The Guardian 02 Jun 2023
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Another UN Myanmar envoy bites the dust
Asiatimes 02 Jun 2023
United Nations Special Envoy to Myanmar Noeleen Heyzer is leaving her position in mid-June after some 20 months of being stonewalled by the generals of the State Administration Council (SAC) ... The knives will likely be out for Heyzer ... None of these angry denunciations should be dismissed or derided ... the SAC and the UN ... Photo ... Photo. AFP / Munir Uz Zaman.
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Iran's uranium capable of making 3 to 5 nuclear bombs: ex-Israeli official
Anadolu Agency 01 Jun 2023photo: AP / Sophie Garcia, File
Burkina Faso is the world’s ‘most neglected crisis’ as focus remains on Ukraine
The Guardian 01 Jun 2023
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Brazilian Amazon at risk of being taken over by mafia, ex-police chief warns
The Guardian 01 Jun 2023
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Harry to become first British royal in 130 years to give evidence in court
Reuters 02 Jun 2023
Summary. Companies. Prince, celebrities accuse tabloids of phone-hackingHarry to appear in witness box in London's High CourtRoyal aides likely to feature in cross-examinationHarry first senior British royal to testify since 1890s ... His appearance in court is likely to attract worldwide attention ... The palace has not commented ... Our Standards ... ....
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White House wants to engage Russia on nuclear arms control in post-treaty world
San Francisco Chronicle 02 Jun 2023
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is ready to have talks with Russia without preconditions about a future nuclear arms control framework even as it is enacting countermeasures in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to suspend the last nuclear arms control treaty between the two countries ... The Pentagon in... .
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Japan demographic woes deepen as birth rate hits record low
Reuters 02 Jun 2023
TOKYO, June 2 (Reuters) - Japan's birth rate declined for the seventh consecutive year in 2022 to a record low, the health ministry said on Friday, underscoring the sense of crisis gripping the country as the population shrinks and ages rapidly. The fertility rate, or the average number of children born to a woman in her lifetime, was 1.2565.
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US sanctions Iranian officials accused of plotting assassinations abroad including against Bolton and Pompeo
CNN 01 Jun 2023
The Biden administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officials accused of plotting assassinations abroad, including against former national security adviser John Bolton and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ... government officials,” the Treasury Department said ... citizens,” it said.