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Russia's space agency chief declares Venus a "Russian planet"
CBS News 17 Sep 2020
"We think that Venus is a Russian planet, so we shouldn't lag behind," Rogozin, a former deputy prime minister, told reporters on Tuesday ... Research published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy details British and American scientists' discovery of phosphine gas in the clouds around Venus, considered a potential sign of life on the planet. ....
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Patient dies after ransomware attack reroutes her to remote hospital
Ars Technica 17 Sep 2020photo: AP / Sergei Chuzavkov
Russia demands Washington explains whether US facilitates terrorist attacks against Crimeans after NBC report
Russia Today 18 Sep 2020
Russia’s embassy in the US has demanded clarification after an unnamed American official was cited in a report stating that US forces are providing weapons to militant units in Crimea as they launch attacks on Russian troops ... “Unnamed US officials speak about their country’s support of terrorist activities in third countries....
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Chevron is refusing to pay for the 'Amazon Chernobyl' – we can fight back with citizen action
The Guardian 17 Sep 2020
At a time when so many black Americans, Indigenous peoples, people of colour and white allies are protesting at systemic racism, we’d like to highlight a different story of marginalised people speaking truth to power on behalf of their most basic human rights ... It is also the story of how we can all help those defenders peacefully fight back....
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FIFA head visits White House amid corruption investigation in Switzerland
France24 18 Sep 2020
FIFA president Gianni Infantino met President Donald Trump at the White House this week to discuss preparations for the 2026 World Cup in his third visit since the US was named co-host and amid an ongoing probe by the Swiss into corruption allegations in international football ... ....
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Joe Biden showed America a different kind of leadership
CNN 18 Sep 2020
(CNN)For a couple of hours Thursday night, America was treated with honesty and compassion by a man who wants to hold its highest office. That could be the entire review right there, how jarring and unusual it was to visualize a president who could clear the extremely low bar of telling the truth and caring about pain ... Jess McIntosh ... Read More ... ....
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ByteDance plans TikTok IPO to win US deal as deadline looms: Sources
The Times of India 18 Sep 2020
By David Shepardson, Stephen Nellis and Echo Wang. China's ByteDance is planning a U.S. initial public offering of TikTok Global, the new company that will operate the popular short video app, should its proposed deal be cleared by the U.S. government, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday ... Top ByteDance U.S ... operations, the source said ... ....
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Germany to ban plastic straws by mid-2021
The Jakarta Post 18 Sep 2020
Shares. German lawmakers approved legislation Thursday banning disposable plastic products such as straws, cutlery and cotton buds that are polluting the world's oceans. . The new law passed by Germany's lower house of parliament will halt the sale of certain single-use plastics by July 2021 ... . . ... . Topics .. ....
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EU calls for boycott, isolation and sanctions against Russia
Pravda RU 17 Sep 2020
The European Union wants to isolate Russia. To be more precise, the EU wants to "to continue the isolation" of Russia against the background of what happened to Russian opposition activist and blogger Aleksei Navalny. This is the summary of the resolution that was published on the website of the European Parliament ... ....
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Taiwan calls for global defense against China 'threat'
Korea Times 17 Sep 2020
Taiwan's foreign minister Joseph Wu urged the international community Wednesday to help defend his country and region against "expansionist" Chinese moves, saying Taipei feared Beijing would resort to force ... Wu said China "has been intensifying its military threat against Taiwan" in recent years and had stepped up military exercises in the region ... ....
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Global Covid-19 cases cross 30mn mark: Johns Hopkins
The Siasat Daily 18 Sep 2020
Washington, Sep 18 . The overall number of global coronavirus cases has crossed the 30 million mark, while the deaths have increased to more than 944,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University ... The US is the worst-hit country with the world’s highest number of cases and deaths at 6,674,070 and 197,615, respectively, according to the CSSE ... ....
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Clues to scale of Xinjiang labour operation emerge as China defends camps
The Guardian 18 Sep 2020
The Chinese Communist party government has defended its system of internment camps for Uighur and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, in a white paper that also revealed some details of the breadth of its labour program ... Experts say the practices amount to cultural genocide.....
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Iran warns against ‘dangerous’ US defiance of intl. law as it eyes illegal ban on Tehran
Press TV 18 Sep 2020
Iran has warned against Washington’s “precarious” defiance of international law as the US has signaled that it seeks to illegally extend an expiring arms embargo on Iran ... UN Security Council rejects US resolution to extend Iran arms embargo ... Azadi also slammed US accusations of terrorism, accusing Washington of backing government terrorism itself ... ....
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China: US official's trip to Taiwan will lead to 'necessary responses'
The Hill 17 Sep 2020
Chinese officials on Thursday promised to issue "necessary responses" to the U.S. on Thursday after a top State Department official arrived in Taiwan for economic discussions. The statement came as U.S. Under Secretary of State Keith Krach became the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Taiwan in decades when he arrived on the island Thursday ... U.S....
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US world order: delusional fantasy or perverse reality?
Press TV 18 Sep 2020
The American New World Order is based on both fantasy and reality. It is in fact a reality which way outstrips any fantasy hitherto portrayed. It has created far more disorder than order ... And now those nations are on a path to breaking US hegemony altogether. Iran is one such nation that has taken the helm ... Bush had envisaged it ... Doing whatever it takes....
