2022-06-26: News Headlines

_____ (2022-06-26). Is the Ghost of a Murdered Official Stalking the Former President of the ROK? journal-neo.org The audience may remember the high-profile scandal in inter-Korean relations in which "Kim Jong-un apologized for the death of a South Korean citizen". This murky story is now entering its second round, potentially very unpleasant for Moon Jae-in and his administration. The author covered this topic back in the day, but since the NEO text fell …

____ (2022-06-26). Hong Kong Palace Museum to open on July 2. ecns.cn Located in West Kowloon Cultural District, the Hong Kong Palace Museum is expected to open to the public in July. A total of 914 cultural treasures from the Palace Museum in Beijing will be on display at the opening exhibition of the museum. The museum covers an area of 13,000 square meters and the total construction area is about 30,000 square meters. It has seven floors and nine exhibition halls, with a total exhibition area of 7,800 square meters.

Dave Id (2022-06-26). SCOTUS Overturns Roe v Wade: The Dissent of Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan. indybay.org Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan: "Today, the Court discards that balance. It says that from the very moment of fertilization, a woman has no rights to speak of. A State can force her to bring a pregnancy to term, even at the steepest personal and familial costs."

____ (2022-06-26). 914 cultural relics from Beijing to be on display in Hong Kong. ecns.cn A total of 914 cultural relics from the collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing are to be on display in the Hong Kong Palace Museum.

Manlio Dinucci (2022-06-25). Terrapiattismo geopolitico dell'Italia. globalresearch.ca L'Italia, mentre chiede a Washington di essere ammessa alla Five Eyes, la più potente alleanza spionistica mondiale a guida Usa, boicotta il Forum economico internazionale di San Pietroburgo a scapito dei propri interessi nazionali. | Due eventi — uno a Occidente …

Editor (2022-06-25). Inflation Sparks Global Wave of Protests for Higher Pay, Aid. scheerpost.com By Aya Batrawy / AP Rising food costs. Soaring fuel bills. Wages that are not keeping pace. Inflation is plundering people's wallets, sparking a wave of protests and workers' strikes around the world. This week alone saw protests by the political opposition in Pakistan, nurses in Zimbabwe, unionized workers in Belgium, railway workers in Britain, Indigenous people in Ecuador, hundreds …

_____ (2022-06-25). US Prepares to Oust Erdogan. journal-neo.org After Recep Tayyip Erdogan officially announced his intention to run in the upcoming 2023 presidential elections in Turkey, the current White House administration gave a clear signal to its Western "allies" to intensify the campaign against the current Turkish leader and prepare measures to oust him. Although there is no talk of a coup d'état …

TeleSUR, ldp, SH (2022-06-25). 82 palestinos heridos en brutal represión en Cisjordania. telesurtv.net Las autoridades de emergencia reportaron que cuatro palestinos son atendidos por lesiones y presentar síntomas de asfixia en la localidad de Beita.

Prof. Claudia von Werlhof (2022-06-25). Global WAR-NING! Geoengineering Is Wrecking Our Planet and Humanity. globalresearch.ca World leaders are meeting in Glasgow at COP-26. All eyes are now on "the imminent dangers of CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions". The "climate emergency" is a timely instrument of propaganda used to distract people from questioning "the real crisis", namely the Covid-19 "plandemic".

Talha Burki (2022-06-25). [World Report] COVID-19 in North Korea. thelancet.com 1 month ago, North Korea declared its first COVID-19 cases. Information is scare, but the outbreak now appears to be huge, amid a food crisis and without mass vaccination. Talha Burki reports.

Gavin O'Reilly (2022-06-25). Victoria electoral de Gustavo Petro: øRumbo a un cambio de régimen en Colombia? globalizacion.ca La victoria de Gustavo Petro en las elecciones presidenciales de Colombia del domingo, que marca la primera vez que Bogotá elige a un jefe de estado de izquierda, no fue el único evento geopolítico de gran alcance que tuvo lugar…

WSWS (2022-06-25). India and the US send envoys to Sri Lanka amid worsening economic crisis. wsws.org Prime Minister Wickremesinghe told parliament that the country was "facing a far more serious situation" than the current shortages of fuel and other essentials and warned of "a possible fall to rock bottom."

Joanna Palmer (2022-06-25). [Comment] Sharpening the focus on powerful health stories: Highlights 2022 photography competition open for submissions. thelancet.com Syrian photographer Sameer Al-Doumy's photograph of two boys playing on swings in Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Syria, on the first day of a ceasefire in February, 2016, captures a moment of happiness and release amid years of conflict.1 Some 2 months later, a photograph by Karam al-Masri, taken after an attack on the Al-Quds hospital in Aleppo, shows a child crying desperately next to the body of his dead brother, having also lost other family members during the Syrian conflict.1 These powerful images highlight poignant personal moments and the devastating impacts of conflict on individual lives in a protracted conflic…

Anonymous669 (2022-06-25). Turkish Military Continues Expansion In Greater Idlib, Builds New Position Near Key Highways. southfront.org Turkish army vehicles and military personnel are seen near the Turkish-Syrian border on October 12, 2019. IMAGE: Reuters / Murad Sezer | On June 25, the Turkish military established a new position near the town of Mjdlya in the southern part of the Syrian region of Greater Idlib, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. | The London-based monitoring group said that the Turkish military deployed battle tanks, armored personnel carriers and anti-tank guided missile systems at the new position. | Mjdlya is l…

Richard Horton (2022-06-25). [Comment] Offline: The UK, a knave among nations. thelancet.com In 2015, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Global Health published an admiring report, The UK's Contribution to Health Globally—Benefiting the Country and the World. They identified four sectors where Britain added important value. The UK had shown consistent global leadership towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Tens of thousands of health workers across Africa and Asia had received education and training through National Health Service volunteering. The UK was the only G7 nation to meet the 0 ∑7% GNI target for donor aid.

____ (2022-06-25). Unknown liquid released on train near Japan's Tokyo, 2 girls hospitalized. ecns.cn An unknown liquid was released in a train on Friday in Japan's Chiba Prefecture, close to Tokyo, local media quoted investigators as saying.

____ (2022-06-25). Siren sounded in US military base in Baghdad. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 25 (MNA) —Local Iraqi media on Saturday evening reported that the sirens sounded inside a military base belonging to US terrorist forces in Green Zone of Baghdad, Iraq.

Deweylaura (2022-06-25). Abortion rights: Today we mourn, tomorrow we organize! cpusa.org The Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization is a horrific setback for women, their partners, their families, and society overall. As expected, the court overturned Roe v. Wade, making abortion rights susceptible to the whims of extreme-right state legislators. A woman may not get an abortion in Texas, but a …

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