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  • Trump administration's use of military force against drug trafficking in Venezuela has intensified, with increasing calls for regime change from within the GOP, despite internal party divisions regarding the legality and morality of such actions.
  • Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is working to ease tensions with China, reaffirming the status quo regarding Taiwan amid ongoing diplomatic and trade pressures from Beijing.
  • China's real estate crisis is causing local debt to surge to an unprecedented $18.9 trillion, raising concerns about the potential global economic ramifications, reflecting a significant shift in the nation's once-booming market.
  • The European Union is considering legal measures to reduce reliance on Chinese imports and bolster local industries, revealing a strategic pivot in response to geopolitical tensions and supply chain vulnerabilities.
  • Global discussions on immigration are heating up, with significant crackdowns in the U.S. leading to heightened fears among Afghan refugees and tensions in regions grappling with overwhelmed support systems for displaced populations.

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  • How Obama Paved The Way For Trump's Venezuelan Killings 31 minutes ago by Tyler Durden

    How Obama Paved The Way For Trump's Venezuelan Killings Authored by Jim Bovard The Trump administration’s killings of scores of Venezuelans are justifiably provoking outrage. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recently proclaimed, "We have only just begun to kill narco-terrorists." Donald Trump and Hegseth are cashing a blank check for carnage that was written years earlier by President Barack Obama. In his 2017 farewell address, Obama boasted, "We have taken out tens of thousands of terrorists." Drone strikes increased tenfold under Obama, helping fuel anti-US backlashes in several nations. As he campaigned for the presidency in 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama declared, "We will again set an

  • Japan's Sanae Takaichi Seeks To Ease Deepening Row With China, Reaffirms Taiwan Status Quo an hour ago by Tyler Durden

    Japan's Sanae Takaichi Seeks To Ease Deepening Row With China, Reaffirms Taiwan Status Quo Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi finally appears to be backing down amid recent escalating punitive measures imposed on Tokyo by China in the areas of trade, diplomacy, and tourism. Beijing has been dialing up the pressure for weeks, after the new prime minister nearly a month ago told Japanese parliament an attack on Taiwan by the People's Liberation Army could pose a "survival-threatening situation" for which Tokyo would be justified in intervening militarily.  Feeling immense pressure and blowback from the provocative prior comments, Takaichi on Wednesday while again addressing parliament

  • China's Real Estate Collapse Sends Local Debt To Record $18.9 Trillion an hour ago by Tyler Durden

    China's Real Estate Collapse Sends Local Debt To Record $18.9 Trillion Almost 20 years ago, when the Lehman/AIG collapse and the ensuing global financial crisis sent the world into a brief but acute depression, it was China's massive debt-fueled growth dynamo that kick started the world economy and lifted the globe out of what would have been a lost decade - if not worse. The one trade off to this historic kickstart: China ended up doubling its total debt, which then continued growing at an exponential rate until the covid collapse sent China's property sector - the biggest asset of its

  • New Chilling Theory Reveals 'Blackmail' Threat Posed By Afghan Refugees 2 hours ago by Tyler Durden

    New Chilling Theory Reveals 'Blackmail' Threat Posed By Afghan Refugees Last week, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem revealed that Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the man accused of shooting two National Guard troops in Washington, DC, last week, killing one and leaving the other severely wounded, was likely radicalized in the United States after being allowed in this country under the Biden Administration’s Operation Allies Welcome. But new information revealed the chilling possibility that Taliban blackmail may have driven Lakanwal to gun down National Guard troops, which raises troubling questions about threats no security screening can detect. Lakanwal, 29, stands accused of first-degree murder

  • What To Know About The '764' Online Predator Network And The Federal Crackdown 2 hours ago by Tyler Durden

    What To Know About The '764' Online Predator Network And The Federal Crackdown Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Department of Justice (DOJ) officials are attempting to crack down on an online predator network known as “764,” as online exploitation of vulnerable groups increases. In this photo illustration, the TikTok app is seen on a phone in New York City on March 13, 2024. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images This group has proven to be dangerous for many victims, including minors, who are targeted and threatened through forums and gaming platforms. The FBI announced on Feb. 20 that it has


The Guardian

  • British troops accused of human rights violations and sexual abuse in Kenya 10 hours ago by Hannah Al-Othman
    British army, Kenya, Military, Africa, UK news, World news

    Kenyan parliament says UK army training unit ‘dismissed most complaints as false, without publishing its findings’ A report by the Kenyan parliament into the conduct of troops stationed at a British military base close to the town of Nanyuki in Kenya has alleged human rights violations, environmental destruction and sexual abuse by British soldiers. The inquiry into the British Army Training Unit in Kenya (Batuk) was carried out by Kenya’s departmental committee on defencе, intelligence and foreign relations. The establishment of a survivor liaison unit to offer legal aid to victims of crimes linked to Batuk personnel. For the British and Kenyan governments to

  • Whistleblower accuses Foreign Office of ‘censoring’ warning of Sudan genocide 17 hours ago by Mark Townsend
    Global development, Conflict and arms, War crimes, Law, Sudan, Africa, Middle East and north Africa, World news, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Foreign policy, Politics, Humanitarian response, UK news, United Arab Emirates, United Nations, Human rights, Darfur

    Exclusive: Analyst claims UK officials deleted alert to threat of genocidal violence by paramilitaries to protect UAE Warnings of a possible “genocide” in Sudan were removed from a UK risk assessment by Foreign Office officials, according to a whistleblower whose testimony raises fresh concern over British failures to act on the atrocities unfolding in the war-ravaged country. The threat analyst said they were prevented from warning that genocide could occur in Darfur by Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) officials in a risk assessment collated days after Sudan’s brutal civil war erupted in April 2023. Continue reading...

  • Trump calls Somali immigrants ‘garbage’ as US reportedly targets Minnesota community a day ago by Rachel Leingang in Minneapolis
    Trump administration, US immigration, Somalia, US news, US politics, World news, Africa

    US president’s xenophobic rant comes amid reports of ramped-up deportation efforts in Ilhan Omar’s district Donald Trump on Tuesday called Somali immigrants “garbage” and said they should be sent back home in a rant that came as the administration is reportedly increasing immigration enforcement against undocumented Somalis in Minnesota. In a xenophobic rant during a cabinet meeting, Trump went off on Somalis and Ilhan Omar, the congressional representative who is from Somalia and is a US citizen. He said Somalia “stinks” and is “no good for a reason”. Continue reading...

  • Five South Africans in court over alleged recruitment for Russia’s war in Ukraine 3 days ago by Rachel Savage in Johannesburg
    South Africa, Russia, Ukraine, Jacob Zuma, Africa, Europe, World news

    Suspects arrested after tipoff over accusation that 17 South Africans were tricked on to frontlines of the conflict Five South Africans have appeared in court on charges relating to recruitment and fighting for Russia in its war with Ukraine, amid allegations that 17 South Africans had been tricked on to the frontlines of the conflict. A female suspect was arrested on Thursday on her return to South Africa at OR Tambo international airport outside Johannesburg, police said. Three suspects were arrested at the airport on Friday and another on Saturday. Continue reading...

  • Aid cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core – and will mean millions more infections ahead 3 days ago by Kat Lay, Global health correspondent
    Global health, Aid, Global development, Aids and HIV, Society, USAID, Africa, Kenya, Burundi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, World news, Trump administration, US foreign policy

    Reports highlight devastating impact of slashed funding, especially in parts of Africa, that could lead to 3.3m new HIV infections by 2030 In Mozambique, a teenage rape victim sought care at a health clinic only to find it closed. In Zimbabwe, Aids-related deaths have risen for the first time in five years. In Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), patients with suspected HIV went undiagnosed due to test-kit stocks running out. Stories of the devastating impact of US, British and wider European aid cuts on the fight against HIV – particularly in sub-Saharan Africa – continue to mount as


South China Morning Post

  • Kenya inquiry denounces ‘disturbing sexual misconduct’ at UK army base an hour ago by Agence France-Presse

    A Kenyan parliamentary inquiry has denounced a “disturbing trend of sexual misconduct” at a British Army base in the east African country “marked by rape, assault, and abandonment of children fathered by soldiers”. Since Kenya’s independence in 1963, the former colonial power has maintained the British Army Training Unit Kenya (BATUK) on the outskirts of Nanyuki, about 200km (130 miles) north of the capital Nairobi. The inquiry by the Kenyan parliament’s Defence Committee said there was little...

  • US Institute of Peace renamed after ‘greatest dealmaker’ Trump 2 hours ago by Associated Press

    The Trump administration has renamed the US Institute of Peace after President Donald Trump and has planted the president’s name on the organisation’s headquarters despite an ongoing fight over the institute’s control. It’s the latest twist in a see-saw court battle over who controls the US Institute of Peace, a non-profit think tank that focuses on peace initiatives. It was an early target of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) this year. On Wednesday, the State Department said it...

  • TikTok to invest more than US$37 billion in Brazil data centre 2 hours ago by Bloomberg

    ByteDance’s TikTok will invest more than 200 billion reais (US$37.7 billion) to build a data centre in Brazil, marking its first project in Latin America. TikTok would partner with data centre developer Omnia and Casa dos Ventos, one of Brazil’s leading renewable energy providers, in a data centre in the northeastern state of Ceara, Monica Guise, head of public policy at TikTok Brazil, said on Wednesday. The project, which would be developed near the industrial port of Pecém, would fully rely on...

  • How China engineered the rapid rise of its drug innovation industry 3 hours ago by Kamala Thiagarajan

    China’s pharmaceutical industry is on the brink of enormous growth and transformation. In just a few years, it has moved on from being the world’s cheapest source of active pharmaceutical ingredients to becoming a major hub for pharmaceutical innovation – a place where new, more effective drugs are born. It is now the second-largest developer of drugs, trailing only the United States. In the global drug development pipeline, China’s growth rate is phenomenal, leaping from 3 per cent in 2013 to...

  • Trump’s ‘terrible, stupid’ decisions test 8-decade bonds of US-Japan alliance 5 hours ago by Julian Ryall

    Public opinion in Japan is souring towards the United States, as US President Donald Trump’s strong-arm trade tactics and divisive domestic policies test the bonds of an alliance that has endured for eight decades. The Cabinet Office’s latest annual survey, released on Friday, revealed that 70.8 per cent of Japanese respondents viewed Japan-US relations as “good” or “quite good”, tumbling 14.7 percentage points from a year earlier. It marked the second-lowest reading since the question was...


New York Times

  • Republican Anger Erupts at Johnson as Party Frets About Future 4 hours ago by Annie Karni
    Elections, House of Representatives, United States Politics and Government, Women and Girls, Midterm Elections (2026), House of Representatives, Republican Party, Greene, Marjorie Taylor (1974- ), Johnson, Mike (1972- ), Kiley, Kevin (1985- ), Luna, Anna Paulina, Mace, Nancy, Stefanik, Elise

    A small group of G.O.P. women have been among the most vocal in raising what their colleagues say is a broader frustration with the speaker.

  • What Tennessee Revealed About the G.O.P.’s Trump Trap in the Midterms 10 hours ago by Shane Goldmacher
    Republican Party, Midterm Elections (2026), Elections, House of Representatives, Trump, Donald J, Political Advertising, United States Politics and Government, Van Epps, Matt (1983- ), Behn, Aftyn, Tennessee, Campaign Finance

    Republican candidates face the problem that President Trump alone gets out the vote that they need. And he alone gets out the vote that Democrats need, too.

  • U.S. Military’s Boat Strikes Planning Takes On New Significance 5 hours ago by Helene Cooper, Julian E. Barnes, Charlie Savage and Eric Schmitt
    live-detached, United States Defense and Military Forces, Drug Abuse and Traffic, United States Politics and Government, War Crimes, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, Drug Cartels, Targeted Killings, Bradley, Frank Mitchell, Hegseth, Pete, Trump, Donald J, Caribbean Area, Defense Department, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Office of Legal Counsel (US)

    The details could raise questions about who was responsible for a follow-up strike on Sept. 2 — the commander who ordered it or the defense secretary.

  • Trump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars, Gutting Biden’s Climate Policy 6 hours ago by Lisa Friedman, Maxine Joselow and Jack Ewing
    Global Warming, live-detached, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Fuel Efficiency, Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, United States Politics and Government, Electric and Hybrid Vehicles, Automobiles, Environment, Oil (Petroleum) and Gasoline, Fuel Emissions (Transportation), General Motors, Transportation Department (US), Environmental Protection Agency, Trump, Donald J, Barra, Mary T, Biden, Joseph R Jr

    The president said he would weaken Biden-era mileage standards, which were designed to increase electric-vehicle sales, calling them a “scam.”

  • Pentagon Watchdog Finds Hegseth’s Signal Chat Risked Endangering U.S. Troops 3 hours ago by Robert Jimison, Megan Mineiro and John Ismay
    United States Defense and Military Forces, Classified Information and State Secrets, Signal Chat Leak (Trump Administration), Inspectors General, Defense Department, Houthis, Signal (Open Whisper Systems), Hegseth, Pete, Yemen

    An inspector general report to be released on Thursday examined the defense secretary’s use of a private messaging app to discuss airstrikes in Yemen.


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