As Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen explained, Asians shouldn’t respond to the horrific attacks with “knee-jerk” calls for more policing but must instead recognize the violence as “part of a pattern of white supremacy.” Even if the assailants are “people of color,” he added, “the solution is not to …
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The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner was reportedly “taken” and escorted away early Monday morning, Reuters reported, citing spokesman for Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party, Myo Nyunt. Nyunt added that several other senior officials, including formal head of the state – Myanmar’s President Win Myint – were allegedly …
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“In particular, the ICRC is concerned about the possible ‘chilling effect’ the designation may have on humanitarian action, leading to it being impeded or delayed,” the agency’s director of operations, Dominik Stillhart, said in a statement. Stillhart urged the US government to consider “humanitarian carve-outs” from their designation in order …
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On Monday, UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported that Telegram had taken second place in the US downloads chart, according to exclusive data from the Sensor Tower market research agency. Between Wednesday and Sunday last week, more than half a million Americans downloaded the app, almost three times as many …
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We constantly hear that ‘the Kremlin’ wants to destroy the international order, undermine democracy, and destabilize the West. Add to this the obsession with Russia that has gripped a large part of the political left in America since 2016, and it was no surprise this week that a connection was …
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Simon & Schuster announced on Thursday that it would not publish Hawley’s forthcoming book, ‘The Tyranny of Big Tech’, claiming that his objections over the November presidential contest played a role in the “disturbing, deadly insurrection” that occurred on Wednesday at the US Capitol. The Missouri lawmaker, who echoed US …
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Speaking on Thursday in a regular media briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said that Beijing would be pausing all flights between China and the UK. “After much consideration, China has decided to take reference from other countries and suspend flights to and from UK,” Wang told reporters. China will …
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The measures agreed between Johnson and Macron will be announced later and come into effect from December 23, the BBC reported, citing French European Affairs Minister Clement Beaune. Urgent talks were held after Paris decided to close the border with the UK for 48 hours following the discovery of a …
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The statement that the new strain of Covid-19 is 70 percent more contagious is nothing, but a claim made by politicians so far, Christian Drosten, the head of the virology department at the Berlin’s Charite center — one of Europe’s largest university hospitals — told the German radio broadcaster Deutschlandfunk. …
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The government has told supermarkets and suppliers of medicine, medical devices, and vaccines to stockpile six weeks’ worth of goods at secure locations in the United Kingdom, according to the Sunday Times. Prime Minister Boris Johnson will reportedly take control of planning if Britain opts for no deal, and will …
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