Let trade run free. Tie your currency to the U.S. dollar. Align your foreign policy with America’s. The U.S. and its Western partners wrote these economic rules, a cornerstone of the world order prevailing since World War II.

Tensions about China using Huawei to spy or sabotage systems. China is South Africa's largest trading partner.

Part of response from United States after alleged seizures of several civilian ships by Iran, US Navy said.

ECFR: with possible exception of France, whole of Europe "has almost completely renounced the idea of greater strategic autonomy." "We are so vassalised that we can't even admit to it. If we did, then people might figure it out and that would be terrible."

“I’m fine with Asians, but Russians are Asians. They have a completely different culture, vision. Our key difference from them is humanity.”

In March, China brokered the agreement that resumed diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia. China has been Iran’s top trading partner for 10 straight years.

Center-right parliament votes 102 to 1 to ban small parties

Left-wing opposition figure Ousmane Sonko in custody on charges including plotting an insurrection. Interior minister said it dissolved Sonko's party. First time a party banned since Senegal independence from France in 1960. Government also restricted internet access.

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"I'm 58 and I cannot enter the labour market because they always tell me that at my age, 58, I am not (employable), just a few odd jobs, always off the books, underpaid."

Canadians no longer able to share or view news articles and other content by publishers and broadcasters, including international outlets. Online News Act requires tech giants to compensate Canadian news outlets for content shared on their platforms.

National police chief: "a police officer should not be in prison, even if he may have committed serious faults or errors in the course of his work." Left-wing opposition blasted government for failing to rein in “a police hierarchy that places itself above the law”.

Regardless of what your beliefs are, our society is a Judeo-Christian society and we have a moral compass. Not everybody does, and there are those that are willing to go for the ends regardless of what means have to be employed

Witness says commando killed prisoner to make room in helicopter. Commanders ordered junior officers to execute prisoners to register first “kill”. Soldier who leaked evidence of extrajudicial killing charged, possible life sentence. "We pin medals on serial killers.”

Meloni heads Italy’s most rightwing government since the second world war. Italy’s criminal code punishes with a fine ranging from €1,000 to €5,000 anyone who “publicly defames the republic”, which includes the government, parliament, the courts and the army.

"If they don't act immediately, we'll be able to ban the operation [of the platforms] on our territory." Nineteen very large online platforms will have to comply to limit the spread of illegal and harmful content.

A Senate report last year concluded “this horrific practice is not confined to the past, but clearly is continuing today.” In May, a doctor was penalized for forcibly sterilizing an Indigenous woman in 2019.

Media capture in Poland: the ruling party has significantly increased its ability to influence and control news and opinion across the country.

Former Tripoli station chief embarrasses DGSE: “We eliminated Gaddafi and destroyed his country without worrying that it was a rampart against Islamist terrorism. The consequences of this disastrous expedition were not foreseen. It was incomprehensible that Sarkozy wanted his scalp.”

Center-right government increases taxes on basic goods, fuel, food, mobile money transfers, controversial levy on all tax-payers to fund housing scheme

The Taliban has not once, but twice eradicated Afghanistan's poppy cultivation, the world's largest source of heroin. Despite western accusations, it has never been The Taliban behind the Afghan drug industry, but only ever the US and its allies, with billions in profits breezily laundered through the global financial system.

interviews with survivors provided accounts about the bodies and the smell of rotting corpses permeating the border area. violence against migrants is committed by uniformed security officials operating under Saudi Arabian state authority.