‘Insane’: Xi’s call for ethnic Chinese to tell Beijing’s story stirs anger

[ad_1] In late February, 59-year-old Phillip Chan Man Ping became the first person in Singapore to be officially designated a “politically significant person”. The city-state’s authorities had already announced that Chan had “shown susceptibility to being influenced by foreign actors,...

Slovakia braces for presidential vote as Ukraine war rages over the border

[ad_1] This week’s televised debate among Slovakia’s nine presidential candidates often sounded as though it was taking place in Moscow. “As president, I want to extricate Slovakia from the dungeon of nations that is the European Union,” declared Milan Nahlik,...

More than 7,350 West Bank Palestinians arrested by Israel during Gaza war

[ad_1] Occupied East Jerusalem – In early November, the Israeli authorities summoned Hashim Matar* to the police station in occupied East Jerusalem. For 10 days, he was interrogated about whether he supported Hamas and was a member of the Palestinian...

Deadly Russian attack rocks Odesa; Zelenskyy vows to defeat ‘lunatic’ Putin

[ad_1] Russian forces’ creeping momentum has continued for a fifth week after the fall of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine as the Russian command moved reservists from other parts of the front to press its advantage. The villages of Tonenke and...

A Jordanian flight to airdrop aid over a Gaza ruined by Israel’s bombing

[ad_1] Amman, Jordan/sky above Gaza - A hulking military cargo plane sits on the tarmac of a Royal Jordanian Air Force base in the early morning light. Two maintenance engineers unlock a compartment in the aircraft's fuselage and disappear behind...

‘Record falsification’: Kremlin critics decry vote won by Russia’s Putin

[ad_1] Mykola sarcastically wonders whether he “voted right”. The Ukrainian police officer left his home village near the southeastern city of Mariupol on February 25, 2022, the day after Russia’s full-scale invasion began. More than two years later, his elderly...

Migrant workers exploited, abused in Italy’s prized fine wine vineyards

[ad_1] Names marked with an asterisk have been changed to protect identities. Piedmont, Italy – One of the first words that Sajo* learned in the Langhe, Italy’s northeastern wine country, was “Anduma!” In Piedmontese, the language spoken in the Piedmont...

‘He’s lost my vote’: Many Irish-Americans turn against Biden over Gaza war

[ad_1] One evening in 2004, when John Francis Mulligan, a US-born Irish citizen, was in the West Bank, a stranger asked him to walk her to a funeral. It was after curfew in Nablus, and Palestinians weren’t allowed out on...

Coffee’s in danger: Can Vietnam’s Robusta save it from climate change?

[ad_1] Buon Ma Thuot, Vietnam – The white-walled room in a house on the outskirts of Buon Ma Thuot, Vietnam’s coffee capital, is quiet. The only thing breaking the silence is the occasional beep of an electronic scale, or the...

Thailand’s flourishing cannabis culture under threat as gov’t seeks ban

Thodsapol Hongtong is enjoying a smoke with his friends at the Green Party, a venue where recreational cannabis enthusiasts meet in the Thai capital Bangkok to chat and have a good time. But it’s a pastime that may be coming...
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