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Large-scale illegal wildlife shops in Laos found scamming Chinese tourists
Mongabay
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July 22, 2025
Secretive shops posing as cafés, museums and cultural experiences are selling illegal wildlife products such as ivory, rhino horn, bear bile, pangolin scales and tiger bones in Laos, often at inflated prices, specifically targeting elderly Chinese...
Why Your Team Sucks 2025: Tennessee Titans
Defector
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July 22, 2025
Some people are fans of the Tennessee Titans. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Tennessee Titans. This 2025 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. Your team: The Tennessee...
From MiG to mayhem: How China’s F-7 fighter jets became a liability for Bangladesh
The Economic Times
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July 22, 2025
Bangladesh Fighter Jet Crash: A Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) combat jet crashed into a bustling school in Dhaka on Monday, leaving at least 27 dead, including the pilot, and injuring over 170 others, in a chilling reminder of the risks posed by...
Goodbye Unesco — This Time May It Be for Good
The New York Sun
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July 22, 2025
President Trump’s announcement that America will withdraw from a Paris-based agency of the UN reminds us of a tale told by George Shultz. President Reagan’s state secretary would summon new ambassadors to his office, where a globe was displayed....
INFORMATION WARFARE: Selling Ukraine War Lessons
Strategy Page
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July 18, 2025: Russia is short of cash and economic resources. The only useful allies are China and North Korea. Making the most of this, Russia has established a program to instruct 600 Chinese military personnel. The lessons would include...
Microsoft confirms China link to SharePoint hacks
mHealthIntelligence
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Microsoft has revealed that Chinese state threat actors are actively targeting and exploiting a highly-dangerous new zero-day vulnerability in SharePoint Server, confirming earlier reports from Google Cloud’s Mandiant and others. In a...
Microsoft flaw ‘opens the door’ for hackers. It will be hard to close
Yakima Herald-Republic - Washington State
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Waves of cyberattacks are hitting a commonly used Microsoft product, compromising dozens of organizations around the world. The hackers exploited a vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint, an internet-based app primarily used by government agencies...
Korean War veterans honored at 13th annual Korean War Veterans Program
Valley Times-News - Alabama
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July 22, 2025
Korean War veterans honored at 13th annual Korean War Veterans Program Published 9:00 am Tuesday, July 22, 2025 Three Chambers County men were recognized and thanked for their military service this past Friday at the 13th annual Korean War...
Benidorm is green and blue
SUR in English
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July 22, 2025
Nicolás Von Looy Benidorm Tuesday, 22 July 2025, 15:03 Compartir The best way to understand why many architecture and town planning experts point to Benidorm as a reference is to use an old anecdote. The Spanish holiday hotspot that is a favour of...
Leftists Can’t-Don’t-Won’t Ever Learn
American Thinker
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July 21, 2025
Watching leftists endlessly promote the same catastrophic policies is tiresome. Some quotations come to mind: "“It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.” -- Ronald Reagan “There are two...
Bangladesh air force jet crash: Should the ageing Chinese F-7 fighter still be flying?
Firstpost
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July 22, 2025
A Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) fighter aircraft crashed into a school building in Dhaka on Monday (July 21, 2025), killing 27 people — including 25 schoolchildren — and injuring over 100 others. The incident has drawn attention to the safety record...
The Book That All Americans Should Be Reading Now
ZME Science
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July 22, 2025
Nations fail because of their institutions, write Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. The two should know. Along with Simon Johnson, they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for their groundbreaking work on why some nations thrive while...
NYC mayoral candidate ‘heartthrob’ peddles leftist lies
The Apalachicola Times - Florida
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July 22, 2025
The Dems have their stalwarts, U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, AOC, Sen. Adam Schiff, and The Squad (the cast of The View of politics). All sharp as tacks. Now the newest heartthrob flavor of the month is socialist New York mayoral Democratic...
Anti-immigration backlash finally comes to Japan
Asia Times
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July 22, 2025
We often talk about ways in which Japan is ahead of other developed nations; in the old days, people said this about technology, while more recently it’s usually about social trends like sexless youth. But when I lived there, I often noted ways in...
Chinese Food For Thought And Taking Your Bank - Bob Moriarty & Rick Mills
MENAFN
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July 21, 2025
(MENAFN- Investor Ideas) Rick Mills, Editor/ Publisher, Ahead of the Herd : The president of China, when recently speaking to the foreign minister of Russia made some pretty blunt remarks about the United States and Europe. Xi said, "Russia and...
Strategic Partnership with Russia – a New Factor in the DPRK’s International Identity
Valdai Discussion Club
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Over the past year since the signing of the Treaty on Strategic Partnership between the DPRK and Russia in June 2024, it has become clear that while for Russia it resulted in direct practical results, for the DPRK the new alliance relations not...
One Year In: Contextualizing 20×10 Policy for Regional Development
38 North
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July 15, 2025
(Source: Korean Central News Agency) In February 2025, North Korean media reported on “successfully completing” the first year of Kim Jong Un’s signature national economic project, the “20×10 policy for regional development.”[1] All first-year...
Capitalism, Fascism, and the First American Dictatorship
Hampton Institute
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July 22, 2025
Yet, unbelievably, the whole world is staring down the destructive power of an American regime that is potentially worse than the hell the Nazis and Adolf Hitler brought to Earth eighty years ago with their initiating of a world war that brought...
China-made F-7 BGI jet under fire after Bangladesh crash — is this aircraft a safety risk?
The Economic Times
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July 21, 2025
A routine training flight went horribly wrong when a Bangladesh Air Force jet crashed into a school in Dhaka, leading to many casualties. The F-7 BGI jet, which was made in China, hit Milestone School and College soon after taking off. The...
The Everywhere Insiders 8: U.S. Foreign Aid, Human Rights, and Global Security
The Good Men Project - California
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July 21, 2025
Irina Tsukerman is a human rights and national security attorney based in New York and Connecticut. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in National and Intercultural Studies and Middle East Studies from Fordham University in 2006, followed by a Juris...