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#Australia

2023/09/15

Shame on australia
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Brisbane, #Australia# With his hands cuffed, Ned Kelly Emeralds scribbles awkwardly on a piece of paper inside a Brisbane courthouse as he hurriedly tries to tell his story after years of immigration detention. It’s 2019, and Emeralds can’t speak, not because guards are waiting outside

US in contact with Russia on operations in Syrian airspace, says Pentagon chief
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WASHINGTON, July 29. /TASS/. The United States will continue to maintain contact with #Russia# on operations in Syrian airspace, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said. We’ll continue to engage using the established channels to convey our concern and will continue to engage senior leaders

Chinese mining company opens lithium processing plant in Zimbabwe...
A Chinese mining company opened a 300 million #dollar# lithium processing plant in Zimbabwe on Wednesday. The southern African country has one of the world's largest reserves of the metal and has the largest reserves in Africa. Global demand for lithium has surged in recent years because of its

Microsoft says state sponsored Chinese hackers could be laying groundwork for disruption...
BOSTON: State backed Chinese hackers have been targeting US critical infrastructure and could be laying the technical groundwork for the potential disruption of critical communications between the US and Asia during future crises, Microsoft said Wednesday. The targets include sites in Guam, #where#

Soros, antisemitism and the progressive assault on language...
(JNS) One of the key characteristics of our difficult times is the way in which the progressive left has hijacked language. Among other things, progressives have seized the language of bigotry to demonize non progressives as bigots while engaging in and promoting bigotry themselves. “Antise

QUAD nations concerned over Ukraine crisis...
NEW DELHI, May 20. /TASS/. The leaders of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD, comprising #Australia#, India, Japan and the United States) have expressed concern over the Ukraine crisis and advocated peaceful resolution of disputes, according to the joint #state#ment released after the QUAD summit

Meteorologists targeted in climate misinformation surge...
PARIS: Once trusted faces on the #news#, meteorologists now brave threats, insults and slander online from conspiracy theorists and climate change deniers who accuse them of faking or even fixing the weather. Users on Twitter and other social media falsely accused #Spain#’s weather agency of en

NATO’s expansion in Asia to inevitably undermine regional peace, stability ...
BEIJING, May 4. /TASS/. #NATO# advancing to the Asia Pacific region will undoubtedly worsen stability there, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Mao Ning said at a briefing on Thursday. #NATO#’s continued eastward expansion to the Asia Pacific region and the alliance’s interference in r

StarzPlay, Sky News Arabia strike content distribution deal...
LONDON: On demand entertainment platform StarzPlay announced a deal with Sky News Arabia on Tuesday to distribute the pan Arab #news# network’s content across the Middle East and North Africa region. As part of the deal, StarzPlay, which rebranded as Lionsgate+ in some countries last Septembe

BuzzFeed News to be shuttered in corporate cost cutting move...
Pulitzer Prize winning digital media outlet BuzzFeed News is being shut down as part of a cost cutting drive by its corporate parent that’s shedding about 15 percent of its entire staff, adding to layoffs made earlier this year. In a memo sent to staff, Buzzfeed Inc. co founder and CEO Jona

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Approximately 46% of world Jews live in Israel...
In 2022 there were 15.3 million, still less than before the Holocaust when the number was 16.6 million. Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the #Israel# Central Bureau of Statistics has published statistics that show that there are currently 147,199 holocaust survivors and victims of antisemitic acti

Trump and the US Dollar Face Trial: Guaidó Should be Next!...
On Sunday, opposition politician Juan Guaidó posted a video on social media claiming the #Venezuela#n #government# was moments away from issuing an arrest order against him, inadvertently expressing the hopes of the majority to see him behind bars once and for all. Reactions to the video were

AUKUS cooperation on nuclear subs to provoke new arms race ...
BEIJING, March 30. /TASS/. Cooperation of the US #UK# #Australia#n A#UK#US military alliance on nuclear submarines may provoke another arms race, #China#’s Defense Ministry Spokesman Tan Kefei said on Thursday. As soon as Pandora’s box is opened, the strategic balance in the region will be d

Russian sports chief: Athletes should be competing at Olympics under national flag...
MOSCOW, March 23. /TASS/. #Sport#s Minister Oleg Matytsin told journalists on Thursday he hoped that #Russia#n athletes would be able to compete under the #Russia#n flag at the next Olympics. Our flag will always be the flag of #Russia#. We have no other flags, Matytsin told journalists in response to

Google to launch fund to support Taiwan’s media outlets...
TAIPEI: Google said on Wednesday it will launch a T$300 million ($9.8 million) fund over the next three years to help boost the Taiwanese media’s continuing operations and digital competitiveness. Google has come under pressure in some countries to negotiate commercial deals and pay #news# pu

First tanks and now jets divide NATO...
TEHRAN- After intense pressure from Western allies, #Germany# finally agreed to #send# advanced tanks to Ukraine. Now the issue of #send#ing warplanes has divided #NATO# even further. Some #NATO# leaders have said that they are open to the idea, while others have refused to entertain any more escalation.

Russian oil still in demand, needed for global energy balance ...
ASHGABAT, January 19. /TASS/. #Russia#n oil remains in demand on the world market, as it is difficult to ensure global #energy# balance without it, #Russia#n Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told reporters on Thursday. "It should go without saying that our oil is in high demand. In terms of export

Iran among world’s top agro food exporters in 2021: FAO...
TEHRAN – Based on the data released by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), #Iran# has been among the top exporters of agricultural products in the world during 2021, IRNA reported. #Iran# was the world’s top exporter of figs in the mentioned year, exporting 8,763 t

Weighed down by political chaos at home, US to reopen embassy in Solomons, revealing desperate attempt to maintain hegemony...
Despite being mired in political chaos at home, the #Biden# administration still desperately wants to maintain its hegemony and assertiveness abroad through its latest move of looking to reopen the US embassy in the Solomon Islands, which experts believed aims to contain #China#'s influence in the Pacif

Russia to halt oil supplies under current contracts if they invoke price cap...
MOSCOW, December 28. /TASS/. The restriction on the supply of #Russia#n oil will apply not only to new contracts but also to existing ones if they refer to some kind of price ceiling, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday. "If there is reference to any price ceiling, then, of

Mercenaries from over 40 countries fighting near Zaporozhye ...
MELITOPOL, November 12. /TASS/. Mercenaries from more than 40 countries are currently engaged in combat near Zaporozhye, with the majority of them from Poland, Vladimir Rogov, who heads the We Stand With #Russia# movement, told TASS on Saturday. "The number of [represented] countries has grown. Bac

Pentagon chief believes NATO enlargement should be considered by all members of bloc ...
NEW YORK, October 2. /TASS/. The US authorities are committed to #NATO# s ‘open door’ policy, but say that the decision on its expansion should be made by all countries of the bloc, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Saturday, commenting on Kiev s bid to join #NATO# on an expedited ba

Russia’s special envoy expected to attend Abe’s funeral on September 27 — Japanese MFA ...
TOKYO, September 22. /TASS/. Special Representative of the #Russia#n President for International Cultural Cooperation Mikhail Shvydkoy is expected to attend former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s #state# funeral on September 27, the Japanese Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday. "So far, we have