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Wang Wenbin
Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson
"The Philippines illegally occupied China's Zhongye Dao (and has carried out frequent activities in the adjacent waters of Zhongye Dao. If any environmental degradation appears in those waters, it is the Philippines who needs to reflect on its behavior, instead of wrongly accusing China."
Read more...The Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague did not recognize China’s claim over the Spratly Islands. China is the main polluter of the South China Sea where Beijing’s island-building, dredging, and overfishing causes severe environmental damage. -
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Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
"Russian Ambassador to Mozambique Surikov suddenly died in Maputo. Preliminary assumption - stroke. "
Read more...At the time of the Russian foreign ministry’s statement, the ambassador’s body was still in the hospital morgue in Mozambique’s capital Maputo with Russian embassy officials prohibiting medics from examining the body and refusing the police investigation. -
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Vlaimir Putin
Russia's president
“Our cooperation in world affairs is one of the main stabilizing factors on the international stage. Together, we defend the principles of fairness and the democratic world order based on the multipolar realities and international law.”
Read more...Wanted for war crimes, Putin relies on China to wage Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine and undermine the rules-based global order. -
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David Hundeyin
Nigerian Investigative journalist/ Filmmaker
’’American foreign policy sees the Uranium in Niger… the oil in Escravos and the lithium in Kogi as valuable assets… A U.S. military base anywhere in Africa serves EXACTLY the same purpose that the old colonial military bases did - to protect the flow of African resources, and not the lives of African people which America considers to be less than worthless.”
Read more...China, France, and Spain are the largest extractors of uranium in Niger. China is also the single largest harvester of Nigeria’s lithium. A Nigerian subsidiary of a U.S. private firm Chevron is involved in that country’s oil production. -
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Anatoly Antonov
Russian Ambassador to the U.S.
“…according to statistics, the vast majority of computer attacks in the world occur from the territory of the United States.”
Read more...Antonov manipulated statistical data omitting key distinctions that point to Russia as the world’s largest sponsor of political cybercrime. -
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Department of Foreign Military Affairs of the Ministry of National Defense, North Korea
“The U.S. administration, which had kept itself aloof from the delivery of long-range missiles, saying that it did not encourage Ukraine's strike on the Russian mainland, has betrayed more clearly its true colors as a harasser of peace, aggravating war by providing Ukraine with such missiles. This time it has adopted such a mean policy as offering even long-range missiles for attacking the Russian territory to their lackeys.”
Read more...Washington has made clear that Kyiv cannot use long-range missiles to strike within Russian territory. U.S. said Russia’s targeting and killing of at least 14 civilians in Ukraine with North Korea-supplied long-range missiles motivated Biden’s decision to help Ukraine’s defense by sending ATACMS. -
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Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo
Burkina Faso Minister of Communications
“HRW alleges that the Burkinabe army deliberately massacred 223 civilians including more than fifty children in the villages of Nodin and Soro on February 24... The government of Burkina Faso firmly rejects such baseless accusations. The media campaign around these accusations clearly demonstrates the intention of its authors, which is to discredit our fighting forces engaged on the frontline...”
Read more...Witnesses and survivor accounts, photographs, and videos as well as satellite images place Burkina Faso troops at the scene of the attack reported by Human Rights Watch, an international watchdog with a decades-long history of documenting abuses. -
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BreakThrough News
Media outlet
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Read more...U.S. officials say that the United States is continuing talks with Nigerien officials, has not withdrawn any of U.S. military personnel from Niger and does not rule out a continued U.S. military presence there.
