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Returning Lebanese find destroyed homes and razed neighborhoods among rubble

France24.com (en) 

In Lebanon, thousands of displaced people began returning to their homes this week after a ceasefire was announced between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group. Many found their homes reduced to rubble after intense Israeli airstrikes over the past two months leveled entire neighborhoods in eastern and southern Lebanon, as well as the southern suburbs of Beirut. Nearly 1.2 million people have been displaced.

CPJ condemns 7-year jail sentence for Chinese journalist Dong Yuyu on spy charges

Committee to Protect Journalists 

New York, November 29, 2024 – The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a harsh seven-year jail sentence handed down to veteran Chinese journalist Dong Yuyu on Friday on espionage charges, and calls for his immediate release. Dong, 62, a columnist for the state-run newspaper Guangming Daily, was arrested in Beijing in February 2022 while having...

Ogun CJ frees 14 inmates, warns against returning to crime

The Punch 

The Chief Judge of Ogun State, Justice Mosunmola Dipeolu, on Friday, pardoned 14 inmates during a jail delivery exercise held at the Judiciary Complex, Kobape, Abeokuta, the state capital. The move, aimed at decongesting correctional facilities across the state, saw inmates released on health and compassionate grounds. However, the CJ declined to pardon two high-profile

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Did China Just Blink in the South China Sea?

Real Clear World 

Yucong Wang, et al., Asia Times

China declares modest new baselines around contested Scarborough Shoal, enclosing a much smaller strategic area than previously feared

How America's War on Chinese Tech Backfired

Real Clear World 

Scott Kennedy, Foreign Affairs

In late September, the Biden administration issued a draft rule that would ban Chinese connected and autonomous vehicles and their components from the U.S....

Trump Can Deter Chinese Aggression Against Taiwan

Real Clear World 

Joseph Bosco, The Hill

Last week, the Brookings Institution held a security conference with Adm. Samuel J. Paparo, commander of United States Indo-Pacific Command — the U.S. military arm...

Washington Careens Toward the Abyss of World War

Real Clear World 

Doug Bandow, TAC

What could possibly go wrong? The president, now perhaps in name only, reportedly decided to loose American munitions on Russia, a step avoided even during the Cold War....

BRICS Is a New Challenge for a Collapsing EU

Real Clear World 

Javier Villamor, Brussels Signal

The expansion and growing influence of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and other allies) represent an unprecedented challenge to the...

BRICS, De-Dollarization, and the Realignment

Real Clear World 

Axel de Vernou & Farrell Gregory, TNI

Even if the BRICS cannot offer an alternative global reserve currency to the dollar, the group is still making major inroads against the U.S.-led...

Iraq's Fight To Stay Out of the Israel-Iran Conflict

Real Clear World 

Hamzeh Hadad, ECFR

As Israel and Iran clash, Iraq's Shia leadership is trying to rein in domestic Iranian-backed paramilitaries to shield the country from becoming a new battleground in the...