Taiwan warn its citizens against travelling to China amid fears new 'state secret law' could be used to punish regular business activities (www.aljazeera.com)
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Freedom to Write index says China accounting for a third of the world's jailed writers (pen.org)
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What would ICC arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu mean for Israel? | Inside Story (www.youtube.com)
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Iran intensifies violent crackdown on women: "Morality police" are increasing patrols, and women who refuse to wear headscarves are reporting more violent harassment and arrests (www.dw.com)
Under a new campaign called “nour” or “light,” endorsed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian “morality police” are out in force on so-called “guidance patrols” looking for women who refuse to wear the hijab, or headscarf....
Iran security forces sexually assaulted and killed teenager, leaked document says (www.bbc.com)
The 16-year-old Nika Shakarami vanished from an anti-regime protest in 2022. Her body was found nine days later. The government claimed she killed herself....
First scientist to publish Covid sequence in China protests over lab ‘eviction’ as Chinese government attempts to avoid scrutiny over handling of outbreak (www.theguardian.com)
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Estonia and Lithuania blame Russia for GPS jamming after signal interference prevented two Finnair planes from landing (www.dw.com)
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Congress threatens International Criminal Court over Israeli arrest warrants (www.axios.com)
Belarusian authorities are preparing children for war with the EU (texty.org.ua)
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Philippines accuses China of damaging its vessel at hotly contested shoal in South China Sea (www.reuters.com)
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Nato Secretary General in Kyiv: Ukraine is on an “irreversible path” to NATO, support will continue (www.nato.int)
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg visited Kyiv on Monday (29 April 2024) for talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the state of the war and the future of NATO’s support to Ukraine....
"We’ve Become Addicted to Explosions”: The Israeli Military Unit Responsible for Demolishing Homes Across Gaza (www.bellingcat.com)
Twenty days after more than 1,100 people were killed in a Hamas attack on October 7, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched its ground offensive in Gaza with the stated aim of destroying Hamas and bringing hostages home. As of April 12, more than 33,000 people have been killed in Gaza according to UN OCHA reports. In response...
Some US officials say in internal memo Israel may be violating international law in Gaza (www.reuters.com)
Some senior U.S. officials have advised Secretary of State Antony Blinken that they do not find “credible or reliable” Israel’s assurances that it is using U.S.-supplied weapons in accordance with international humanitarian law, according to an internal State Department memo....
Authorities in Latvia call on residents to turn basements into air-raid shelters over concerns the Baltic country could be Russia’s next target (www.euractiv.com)
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Chinese jets fly sorties over Taiwan strait in show of force as US delegation departs (www.theguardian.com)
Taiwan has reported that a dozen Chinese warplanes flew sorties close to the island on Saturday, in a sudden surge of military activity just hours after the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, left Beijing following talks with President Xi Jinping and top Chinese officials.
Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir’s car flips over after running red light, minister lightly injured (www.timesofisrael.com)
Married at 10, abused and forced to flee without her children: an Afghan woman on life under the Taliban (www.theguardian.com)
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Half of Russia's payments to China made through middlemen, sources say (www.reuters.com)
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China: Minorities accounting for 1% of total population make up 34% of prison inmates (uhrp.org)
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Head of Belgian Foreign Affairs Committee hacked by China (www.vrt.be)
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Iran sentences rapper to death for supporting popular protests in his songs (www.bbc.com)
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US jails Chinese man who threatened student activist over her pro-democracy protest (www.bbc.com)
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Germany: Right-wing AfD's Maximilian Krah faces probe on Russia, China 'payments' (www.dw.com)
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Iranian women violently dragged from streets by police amid hijab crackdown: Video evidence shows multiple arrests after regime launched new draconian campaign against women and girls (www.theguardian.com)
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How China is trying to turn Xinjiang from concentration camp into tourist paradise: Checks at every step contradict the 'prosperous region' narrative (globalvoices.org)
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