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Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leaders must keep a “sober head” and advocates for secession from China should “wake up from their dreams,” the English-language newspaper said on Monday. “From what happened in Afghanistan, they should perceive that once a war breaks out in the Straits, the island’s defense will …

It’s been well over a year since the global fight against the coronavirus started, but matters of concern are still mounting. The growing number of infections has led to new lockdowns and mass testing, while plans to make vaccination compulsory have been causing tensions and protests. Is the fight against …

A counterinsurgency is underway in the British media. Holding The Line is a group who bill themselves as ‘Journalists Against Covid Censorship’. They are not anti-vaxxers or Covid-deniers but do feel the mainstream media is only allowing certain themes and tropes to be reported. Most importantly, they are adamant that UK …

Thousands of protesters gathered in the city to demonstrate against Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and his government over their management of the health crisis and for allegedly taking advantage of the pandemic to stifle critics.  However, law enforcement clashed with the attendees when large numbers of riot police were deployed …

On August 3 the leftist publication The Daily Beast published a scathing hit piece directed at one of YouTube’s most popular independent journalists, Tim Pool. The publication devoted over 11,000 words to attacking Pool, accusing him of everything from peddling misinformation to whitewashing the “far right.” This type of salacious …

Judicial Watch, a conservative non-partisan educational foundation, filed the lawsuit on Friday. Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the organization had previously requested the State Department to provide “non-identifying records of US diplomatic personnel being subjected to invasive COVID-19 ‘anal swab’ tests by the Chinese government.” However, no response has …

The letter, published on the platform Github on Friday is signed by security and privacy experts, cryptographers, researchers, academics, legal experts and ordinary consumers, united in condemnation of Apple’s “privacy-invasive content scanning technology.” While acknowledging that efforts to combat child exploitation and abuse are “almost unquestionably well-intentioned,” the signers say …

Hundreds of protesters – some wearing respirators and helmets – set fire to barricades in the streets outside the Lebanese parliament and clashed with police on Wednesday evening. Green lasers could also be seen cutting through the smoke.  Video from Beirut shows smoke and crowd control ammunition being used against …

One of the leading French firefighters’ unions, FA/SPP-PATS, which boasts 7,000 members, said it will go on strike starting Monday unless changes are made to the recent law on compulsory vaccination of certain employees. “The obligatory vaccination of firefighters under [the threat] of penalty violates the constitution,” the union said …

Residents of the most populous US city will be required to show vaccination ID – dubbed ‘Key to NYC Pass’ – in order to eat at restaurants, go to the gym, or enter indoor entertainment venues of any kind, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Tuesday. De Blasio’s vaccination pass …