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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Backlink: TAIWAN NEWS UMC founder Robert Tsao labels Chinese propaganda as ‘nonsense’. Tsao, the founder of the world’s second-largest contract chipmaker, United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC), called a press conference to show his national ID card, saying he had renounced his Singaporean citizenship for Taiwanese citizenship. He said he would stay in Taiwan to defend […]
Backlink: THE BL On July 7, CCTV reported that the construction of the main route of the South-North Water Diversion project has begun in Danjiangkou Town, Hubei Province. This project aims to divert water from the Yangtze river from the Three Gorges Dam into the Han Jiang River – a major tributary of the Yangtze. This […]
Backlink: VOA NEWS In a statement, Chengdu city officials said city residents must “stay home in principle” from 6 p.m. Thursday, while non-essential employees were asked to work from home to combat a new wave of infections. Households will be allowed to send one person per day to shop for necessities, provided they can […]
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Backlink: THE EPOCH TIMES Senior officials in the U.S. government, including White House lawyer Dana Remus, deputy assistant to the president Rob Flaherty, and onetime White House senior COVID-19 adviser Andy Slavitt, have been in touch with one or more major social media companies to try to get the companies to tighten rules on […]
Backlink: THE BL According to the accounts of a former policeman, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) security forces created a so-called “Tough Qigong Squad,” whose members were trained differently. They were forced to endure torture and all kinds of ruthless practices with the aim of forming “strong men” who would be in charge of […]
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Backlink: THE BL The international scientific journal “New Scientist” reported on August 23rd that the heat wave in China was the worst recorded in human history. Although the heatwave has begun to ease, most farmers along the Yangtze River fear the damage from the extreme weather will be severe. Some economists said the affected […]
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Backlink: THE EPOCH TIMES The Colorado River Basin meanders through seven U.S. states and supplies water to Lake Powell in the Upper Basin and Lake Mead in the Lower Basin. In turn, these reservoirs deliver water and power to millions of Americans. Pointedly, these drops threaten hydropower generation and municipal water needs for 40 million […]
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Backlink: NEWS WEEK Russian state-owned firm Gazprom has halted gas supplies via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to western Europe for three days as Moscow faces accusations that it is weaponizing energy. Russia’s energy giant announced that maintenance work required a halt to natural gas flows to Germany from Wednesday to Saturday. Germany has […]
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Backlink: NEWS WEEK Ukraine’s counter-offensive in occupied Kherson is wrecking Russia’s “thinly held” defenses in the region that was seized by Moscow in the early stages of the war, the U.K. Ministry of Defense recently said. The British defense ministry said in an intelligence update Wednesday that Ukrainian armored forces have continued to assault Russian […]
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Backlink: THE BL Rare weather is happening in many parts of China. High temperatures and droughts appear in southern China; the great northern desert was flooded by torrential rains. According to NetEase on August 23, floods have recently occurred in the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang. The Yuqi area of the Northwest Sinopec oil field with 50 […]
Backlink: VISIONTIMES U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, operating out of Arizona, seized thousands of rainbow-colored fentanyl pills over the weekend that smugglers attempted to sneak into the United States over the border with Mexico. Officers in the border community of Nogales, which borders Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, seized 625,000 pills after conducting five separate […]
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Backlink: THE BL The badminton community was stunned by former superstar Ye Zhaoying’s statements at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She said that in the semi-final match against compatriot Gong Zhichao, Chinese officials ordered her to lose so that her teammate could have a better chance of winning the gold medal in the final against […]
