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The Chinese military will be brought to “world-class standards” by 2027, when it marks its 100th anniversary, President Xi Jinping promised in his opening speech at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party on Sunday. Over the next five years, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) will intensify troop training …

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has accused Australia of being hypocritical in its opposition to the Pacific country’s recent security pact with China. He argued that Canberra had not consulted with its other partners last year when it unveiled a security deal with the US and Britain, known as …

Irish MEP Clare Daly has accused the EU of “shooting ourselves in the foot” by imposing sanctions on Russia, and warned that an embargo on Russian energy imports would lead to “disastrous inflation, rocketing energy costs, and a historic decline in living standards,” all while Russia goes undeterred. Addressing the …

Minnesota’s state health department has adopted new ethical standards that include considering a person’s skin color in determining who can receive a potentially life-saving treatment for Covid-19 patients. At issue is allocation of monoclonal antibodies, which have been in hot demand and short supply after proving effective in helping to …

Speaking to Russian news agency TASS, Péter Szijjártó accused Kiev of violating the rights of the Hungarian minority in Ukraine. This topic has long been a talking point for Budapest regarding its eastern neighbor. Relations between the two nations deteriorated in 2017, when a law in Ukraine banned all foreign …

Call me old-fashioned, but in my day ‘helping’ students – of ANY colour – meant giving them a decent education, not treating them like lab rats in a massive social engineering experiment. Putting her John Hancock on Senate Bill 744 on July 14, the 61-year-old gubernator neither issued a press …

Speaking on Monday during a regular press briefing, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying dismissed NASA’s comments that China wasn’t fulfilling its duty to “act responsibly and transparently in space.”  The spokeswoman said that Beijing is displeased by the double standards on the reporting of space exploration, noting the hysteria …

The response from North Korea’s Foreign Ministry came after the United States used a UNSC meeting to call for new sanctions following recent missile tests. North Korea claimed that they were simply testing their “righteous self-defensive measure,” condemning the UN’s “double standard” for singling their nation out “when many other …

What Cuomo posted on Twitter on September 17, 2018 was pretty ironic. After finding himself in a similar situation, the same person who demanded a delay in the confirmation vote for Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is now stating that he won’t resign.  Many women have come forward with …

A story published late last week by Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal showed how major news agencies like Reuters and the BBC worked in secret with the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office to cultivate a group of foreign reporters – many based in Russia and Russia’s near-abroad – to reliably promote …