Backlink: ALJAZEERA At least 174 people have been killed and dozens more injured in a riot and a stampede at an Indonesian football stadium. The tragedy on Saturday night in the eastern city of Malang was one of the world’s deadliest sporting stadium disasters. […]
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Backlink: VISIONTIMES In an abrupt about-face, the Biden administration has excluded as many as 4 million student loan holders from the controversial multi-billion dollar student loan forgiveness program. Reported by publicly-funded state messaging outlet National Public Radio on Sept. 29, guidance published on the Department of Education’s website has quietly been updated to explicitly exclude a […]
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Backlink: CHILDREN’S HEALTH DEFENSE The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) this month said it will invest $200 million in digital ID projects, encompassing “digital public infrastructure, including civil registry databases and digital ID” to help meet the 2030 target date for reaching the United Nation’s (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). […]
Backlink: THE BL Days ago, the media reported that on September 19, a formation of Chinese and Russian-flagged warships sailed into US territorial waters near Alaska, in the Bering Sea. A U.S. Navy patrol ship, a 400-foot cruiser named Kimball, discovered three Chinese naval vessels and four Russian naval vessels sailing 85 miles north of Kiska […]
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Backlink: REUTERS North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea off its east coast on Saturday, hours before South Korea staged a large military show, displaying stealth fighters and its own missiles. Pyongyang’s fourth launch in a week comes amid a flurry of military muscle-flexing by countries in the region, including joint anti-submarine […]
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Backlink: THE BL In July, a vast parcel of agricultural land in Levy County, Florida, was acquired by a company with strong ties to the Chinese military. They plan to set up an experimental primate laboratory, causing great concern in the country. The Beijing-based JOINN laboratory has purchased 1,400 acres, for $5.5 million, in the small […]
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Backlink: RT The US is committed to the “open door” policy when it comes to NATO, but now is the wrong time to consider Ukraine’s membership application, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Friday. […]
Backlink: THE BL The film “Return to Dust,” which tells the story of a man and a woman living in poverty in China, was removed without warning from cinemas and streaming platforms in the country. Nevertheless, the film received international critical acclaim and competed in film festivals like the Berlin Film Festival. […]
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Backlink: VISIONTIMES The Ukraine war’s disruptions to grain and fertilizer flows have prompted the worst food security crisis since at least the one following the 2007-2008 global financial meltdown, with some 345 million people now facing life-threatening shortages, the International Monetary Fund said on Friday. […]
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Backlink: VISIONTIMES The Biden administration quietly issued an update to its student loan forgiveness plan on Thursday, drastically scaling back eligibility on the same day that six Republican-led states filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden, claiming his student loan forgiveness plan is illegal. As of Thursday, borrowers who have federal student loans that are owned by private entities and not by the U.S. […]
Backlink: VISIONTIMES Hundreds of students enrolled at China’s Zhengzhou University in the capital of Henan Province gathered in protest of new lockdowns enacted across school grounds. Crowds were seen chanting across campus, on balconies and in dormitories — demanding an end to the country’s prolonged lockdowns, and calling for the “restoration of basic human dignity.” […]
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Backlink: THE BL As reported, airports across China have widely canceled domestic flights recently, prompting questions and speculation about events in China. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is approaching, and large-scale flight cancellations have been a part of China’s previous significant incidents. Analysts said it brought the international community’s […]
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Backlink: VISIONTIMES Sanctions-hit VTB Bank has urged President Vladimir Putin to curb the activities of Western grain traders in Russia, citing the need to strengthen Russian traders’ role in the global market. In the letter, dated Sept. 14, VTB Chief Executive Andrei Kostin asked Putin to issue a decree to prohibit companies belonging to […]
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Backlink: THE BL Rumors that Xi Jinping was under house arrest appeared in major U.S. and European media sites, which really caused the Chinese Communist Party to lose face. RFA said that a director of a Chinese media agency, who asked to remain anonymous, directly denied the coup in Zhongnanhai. Previous related reports on some […]
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