Backlink: REUTERS A nuclear power plant on the front line of the Ukraine war again lost external power, U.N. inspectors said on Saturday, fuelling fears of disaster while Moscow kept its main gas pipeline to Germany shut to hurt economies of Kyiv’s friends in the West. The Zaporizhzhia plant, Europe’s largest, had its last […]
Backlink: THE BL The U.S. ambassador lined up in Shanghai for a nucleic acid test, sparking lively discussion, with netizens wondering: Has the Shanghai mayor ever lined up for a nucleic acid test? NetEase reported that Burns took a high-speed train from Beijing to Shanghai on August 31. This is his first official visit to Shanghai after […]
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Backlink: THE EPOCH TIMES The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said on Friday it accidentally exposed but has since removed the confidential financial information of about 120,000 taxpayers. In a letter to Homeland Security Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), Treasury Department acting Assistant Secretary for Management Anna Canfield Roth wrote that the IRS “recently identified an inadvertent and […]
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Backlink: THE BL In the past few days, an article titled “The Research Group of the Chinese Academy of History: New Explorations on the Problem of “Seclusion and Lockdown” in the Ming and Qing Dynasties has become popular on the Internet. It is said that it is a signal for Xi Jinping to reverse the car […]
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Backlink: THE EPOCH TIMES After the recent exposure of international fraud and human trafficking that victimized thousands of Chinese-speaking nationals from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, details about the fraud syndicates are surfacing as more rescued victims speak up. Much information has pointed to the Communist regime’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) developers based in Cambodia […]
Backlink: REUTERS The toll from cataclysmic floods in Pakistan continued to climb on Saturday with 57 more deaths, 25 of them children, as the country grapples with a relief and rescue operation of near unprecedented scale. Record monsoon rains and melting glaciers in northern mountains brought floods that have affected 33 million people and […]
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Backlink: THE BL The list of books and artists banned by the Chinese regime continues to grow. On Aug. 29, a media outlet reported that several schools received a new list of prohibited books sent to students’ parents. The list includes the works of the cartoonist Guo Jingxiong, the Taiwanese writer Lung Ying-tai and the writer […]
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Backlink: VISIONTIMES On Monday, Aug. 29, Tesla CEO Elon Musk expressed his intentions to have his company release its new self-driving technology by the end of 2022, aiming for a widespread release in the U.S. and perhaps in Europe if regulatory approval is passed. Musk, however, has a tendency to exaggerate his own capabilities […]
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Backlink: REUTERS The U.S. State Department has approved a potential $1.1 billion sale of military equipment to Taiwan, including 60 anti-ship missiles and 100 air-to-air missiles, with China threatening to take counter measures. The Pentagon announced the package on Friday in the wake of China’s aggressive military drills around Taiwan following a visit to the […]
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Backlink: TAIWAN NEWS The Ministry of National Defense said Friday (Sept. 2) it had moved anti-drone guns to the offshore islands of Kinmen and Matsu following several incidents with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) believed to have flown in from China. […]
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Backlink: THE BL One of China’s richest men is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice for money laundering. An exception to the almost absolute anonymity behind cryptocurrency transactions are centralized exchanges, such as Binance. Because of this, in 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice asked Zhao and 12 other company executives and […]
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Backlink: REUTERS Europe’s largest economy and manufacturing powerhouse is among the most vulnerable to any cut-off in energy supplies or rising costs as its industrial sector relies heavily on Russian gas. The Aug. 29 – Sept. 1 Reuters poll showed Germany would see three consecutive quarters of negative growth, surpassing the definition of a […]
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Backlink: NIKKEI ASIA India on Friday commissioned the INS Vikrant, its first indigenous aircraft carrier, marking a milestone in its push to reduce its military’s reliance on foreign imports as tensions with China simmer. The 262-meter-long ship, which can accommodate up to 30 fighter jets, cost about 200 billion rupees ($2.5 billion) to build, […]
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Backlink: LIVE MINT Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country about two months ago during the nation’s worst-ever economic crisis situation, returned home from Thailand on Friday, according to news agency PTI. Rajapaksa fled the country on July 13 after protestors in Sri Lanka demanded his resignation and stormed the President’s House in […]
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