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 […]
Backlink: THE BL NTD reported that Qin Zewen represented China at the 71st Miss World Global Finals 2022. Qin is currently accused of falsifying academic and work records. At the moment, Miss World organizers have also stepped in to investigate the incident. Chinese media introduced Qin, 25, as a person with a degree in computer engineering […]
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Backlink: VISIONTIMES A third of all residents in one Toronto-area homeless shelter are students who are unable to afford rent in the city’s massively inflated housing bubble, a staff member told the media. The shocking figure was made public during an Aug. 25 Bloomberg article carried in Canada’s Financial Post by Mark Aston, an employee at […]
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Backlink: THE EPOCH TIMES From grandmothers to college students, Americans have many reasons for aiding ‘Coyotes’. This is the second article in a series on illegal drug and human smuggling along Arizona’s border with Mexico. CASA GRANDE, Ariz.—Mexican drug cartel money drives international human smuggling operations in the United States, said Sam, owner of a private […]
Backlink: NDTV But Taiwan has been particularly upset recently by Chinese drones flying very close to islands it controls next to China’s coast, which President Tsai said was part of Beijing’s “grey zone” warfare. The more China provokes the more calm Taiwan must be, but restraint does not mean there cannot be “strong countermeasures” […]
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Backlink: REUTERS France accused Moscow on Tuesday of using energy supplies as “a weapon of war” after Russia’s Gazprom (GAZP.MM) cut deliveries to a major French customer and said it would shut its main gas pipeline to Germany for three days this week. European governments are trying to coordinate a response to soaring energy costs for […]
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Backlink: VISIONTIMES As Germany grapples with an energy crisis — due in large part to the country’s desire to curb its dependence on natural gas from Russia — Russia appears to be burning off millions of cubic meters of gas, every day, that experts say would previously have been exported to Germany. A newly […]
Backlink: REUTERS Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has urged Russian troops to flee for their lives as his forces launched an offensive near the city of Kherson, saying Ukraine’s military were taking back their territory though Russia said the assault had failed. […]
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Backlink: THE BL In the past two months, hundreds of cities in China have experienced high temperatures above 104℉ (40℃), 66 rivers have dried up, and the water level in parts of the Yangtze River basin has dropped to its lowest level in 157 years. The regime officially said that this year was the […]
Backlink: NDTV Pakistan’s Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman called it the “monster monsoon of the decade”. The death toll from the devastating floods in Pakistan neared 1,100 Monday, as international aid began to trickle in following Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif-led cash-strapped government’s desperate appeal for aid to deal with the crisis that has displaced […]
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Backlink: NDTV Merchants in the Huaqiangbei district, home to the world’s largest electronics market, received an official notice that the market will be closed till Thursday to contain the COVID spread. All tenants are required to work from home during the period and take a nucleic acid test every day, Hong Kong-based South China […]
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Backlink: TAIWAN NEWS Chinese drones that fail to heed warnings over Taiwan’s outer islands will be shot down The Ministry of National Defense (MND) on Sunday (Aug. 28) announced that soldiers will shoot down intruding Chinese drones that fail to heed warnings after yet more footage surfaced showing Chinese unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) compromising […]
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Backlink: REUTERS German sporting goods maker Adidas (ADSGn.DE)unexpectedly said on Monday that its Chief Executive Kasper Rorsted would leave his post next year, before his contract is due to run out, and that it had started searching for a successor. Adidas last month cut its 2022 earnings target, citing a slower-than-expected recovery in China from […]
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