The police chief of Marion, Kansas, was suspended on Thursday, more than a month after he ordered raids on the office of a local newspaper and the home of its publisher in an act rarely seen in American journalism, one that was widely condemned by news organizations as a violation of the First Amendment. Mayor…
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After a missile strike on one of the Ukrainian missile production facilities, the enterprise was moved outside of Ukraine, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) Oleksiy Danilov said on Ukrainian Radio on September 29. “This strike happened a long time ago and therefore, understanding that the Russians know the location…
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The European Union will stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell has said during a visit to Odesa on Saturday. “Odesa is a beautiful historic city. It should be in the headlines for its vibrant culture and spirit. Instead, it marks the…
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SPARKS: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future, by Ian Johnson By now, it is almost clichéd to compare political misrule to the dystopia that Orwell conjured through the story of the low-ranking functionary Winston Smith in “1984,” but so many aspects of the novel have come true in today’s China — from…
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The agreement on Moldova joining the Civil Protection Mechanism of the European Union as a participating state has been signed, the European Commission said on Friday. “Once the agreement is ratified by Moldova, it will provisionally apply until the full entry into force on January 1, 2024,” the commission said in a statement released in…
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The Sukha Balka mine (Kryvy Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region), part of the DCH group of Oleksandr Yaroslavsky, resumed operation of the Frunze mine after almost one year of idleness. According to information in DCH Steel’s corporate newspaper on Thursday, the mine’s miners have returned to their jobs and resumed ore production. Due to military aggression and…
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I haven’t seen my father, Jimmy Lai, in three years. The most recent pictures that have emerged show him surrounded by guards in a Hong Kong prison courtyard during his 50 minutes of daily exercise. He looks thinner, his skin darker. But this will not be the enduring image of him that I carry. In…
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Some 350 people injured in the Azerbaijani Armed Forces’ military operation on September 19-20 and an explosion at a fuel depot on September 25 have been taken to Armenia from the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh. “As of 7:00 p.m. on September 27, 112 patients were taken to Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh. Three hundred forty-nine injured people have now…
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated the importance of providing the army with shells. “This is a topic that we deal with every day. Supply from partners, search for new opportunities in the world. We clearly know how to ensure supplies and are gradually increasing the volume of our Ukrainian production. This is one of…
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During the day, Defense Forces aviation carried out 11 strikes on areas where personnel, weapons and military equipment were built-up and one strike on an enemy anti-aircraft missile system, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said on Facebook. In addition, units of the missile forces hit nine artillery weapons, an area where…
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