(2023-01-04). China mutually implements RCEP agreement with 13 other signatories. ecns.cn RCEP entered into force for Indonesia on Monday. At this point, China has mutually implemented agreements with 13 of the other 14 RCEP members, among which 10 are from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), along with Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand.
(2023-01-04). HK to normalize travel with mainland. ecns.cn The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is getting ready to resume cross-border travel with the Chinese mainland as early as Sunday.
(2023-01-04). Registran 134 nuevos casos de Covid-19 en India. telesurtv.net En la jornada no se reportó ningún fallecido, con lo que India se mantiene con un acumulado de 530.707 muertes a causa de la Covid-19.
(2023-01-04). Enticed by Wealth, the Media is Complicit in the Crimes of Corporations in Indian Country. indybay.org Enticed by wealth and self-glory — the media, corrupt tribal governments, and self-dealing non-profits operate a vacuum for truth, violating the sacred places of origin. The most censored issues in Indian country in 2022.
(2023-01-04). Winnemucca Paiute and Shoshone Remain Evicted from Homes, Denied Justice by Court. indybay.org Winnemucca Indian Colony elderly and disabled remain evicted from their homes by a disputed tribal council whose leader lives out of state. The Inter-Tribal Court of Appeals of Nevada denied the Native homeowners justice.
(2023-01-04). Ministerio de Educación Superior informa sobre convocatoria especial a exámenes de ingreso. cubadebate.cu El Ministerio de Educación Superior informó que durante los días 9, 11 y 13 de enero de 2023 se realizará la convocatoria especial de los exámenes de ingreso a la Educación Superior, con las asignaturas Matemática, Español e Historia, para aquellos aspirantes que no se presentaron a la convocatoria ordinaria por causas extremadamente justificadas.
(2023-01-04). Fuerzas israelíes demuelen varias casas en Cisjordania. telesurtv.net Fuad al-Amour, activista contra los asentamientos coloniales, declaró que era la cuarta vez que se demolían estas casas en dos años.
(2023-01-04). Palestina rechaza intrusión israelí en explanada de las Mezquitas. telesurtv.net El vocero de la presidencia palestina, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, señaló que este hecho aumentará las tensiones y la violencia.
(2023-01-04). Jewish supremacy is state policy, says Netanyahu. juancole.com 
( Middle East Monitor )  ; American Jewish leaders are right to be worried. As Benjamin Netanyahu peels away at the façade that has maintained support for the occupation state within liberal Jewish constituencies in the US and elsewhere, they are discovering that their democratic image of Israel is but a figment of their imagination. …
(2023-01-04). The Republican Sleight-of-Hand: McCarthy Failed on his first Try because He is George Santos. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment)  ; The Republican Party failed to elect a Speaker of the House on Tuesday. The ostensible reason is that 20 of the fascist so-called "Freedom Caucus" representatives voted against him. Six voted for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the biggest liar in politics since Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise …
(2023-01-04). Evocan en Bayamo entrada de la Caravana de la Libertad y a Fidel (+ Video). cubadebate.cu Pioneros, jóvenes y combatientes de Granma protagonizaron este lunes la reedición de la entrada triunfal a esa provincia de la Caravana de la Libertad que guio el Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz hace 64 años.
(2023-01-04). Utopias and Dystopias as Places of Mental Retreat and Cooperation with China. indybay.org Joe Biden and his foreign policy team are in many ways still entrenched in the Cold War era, and his administration has generally taken a far more antagonistic stance toward China than Obama. It is not surprising, then, that the progress Kerry made with his Chinese interlocutors in Glasgow largely fizzled out as tensions over Taiwan grew more intense.
(2023-01-04). Taiwan fruit farmer flourishing in Hainan. ecns.cn At the largest wax apple plantation in Hainan province, there is a slogan on the wall: "Taiwan's experience, shared and rooted in Hainan".
(2023-01-03). Estado Islámico reivindica autoría de ataque en Kabul. telesurtv.net El atentado fue el tercer ataque en la ciudad en un mes reivindicado por la rama del grupo terrorista, IS-Khorasan.
(2023-01-03). 40 candidates selected from Hong Kong for fourth batch of astronauts of Tiangong space station. ecns.cn Hong Kong has selected 40 candidates for the fourth batch of Chinese astronauts to the Tiangong space station, said Sun Dong, Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on Sunday.
(2023-01-03). 2022: India's Workers And Peasants Fight Back — And Fight On. popularresistance.org In India, the year that has just passed started with hope but ended with anger and discontent. Hope, because it was thought that with the pandemic finally dwindling, the economy would revive and so would jobs and incomes. The mainstream media talked of a V-shaped recovery, the government again started talking of a $5 trillion economy (whatever that means). Although there was no reason to do so, working people, desperate after two years of extreme hardship, hoped against hope. The victory of the farmers' movement in forcing the government to back down on the three agricultural laws also boosted the morale —…
(2023-01-03). RCEP takes effect for Indonesia, new trade regulations in place in the country. ecns.cn RCEP agreement took effect for Indonesia on Monday, with the country putting new regulations in place for its trade with other members of the world's largest free trade deal in terms of population and the size of economy and trade.
(2023-01-03). Iran Says 94 Americans Accused Of Soleimani's Assassination. popularresistance.org On Tuesday, Mehr news agency reported that a senior Iranian judicial official said 94 U.S. nationals have been charged with involving in the 2020 assassination of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani. | Kazem Gharibabadi, deputy chief of the Iranian judiciary and secretary general of the High Council for Human Rights, made the remarks in a televised interview on the third anniversary of Soleimani's assassination. | He said the three main accused are former U.S. President Donald Trump, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former Commander of U.S. Central Command Kenneth Frank McKenzie, stressing that no one…
(2023-01-03). Mass Rallies Across Region Commemorate Soleimani Assassination. popularresistance.org As Iranians and Iraqis commemorate the three-year anniversary of Washington's illegal assassination of Iran's Quds Force Commander General Qassem Soleimani and Iraq's Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, scores of people have, over the last few days, rallied in the streets of both countries. | On 3 January, people from all over the Islamic Republic, and particularly in Soleimani's hometown of Qanat-e Malek in Kerman province, gathered to remember the fallen commander. At Tehran's main prayer hall, a national congress to commemorate the assassination was held and attended by several senior officials. The following day, a schola…
(2023-01-03). Clampdown Reported In Iranian Kurdistan After Slain Protesters Mourned. juancole.com By Ardeshir Tayebi |  ; ( RFE/RL)  ; Demonstrators in the western Iranian city of Javanrud were set on by security forces and have reportedly faced a martial-style clampdown since gathering in a local cemetery on December 31 to mark the end of the 40-day mourning period for seven protesters killed by security forces in …
(2023-01-03). Irán afirma que EE.UU. rendirá cuentas por asesinato de Soleimani. telesurtv.net La Cancillería denunció que el crimen fue "diseñado e implementado de manera organizada" por el Gobierno de EE.UU.
(2023-01-03). Thousands March in Occupied Territories Demanding Release of Bodies of Palestinians. orinocotribune.com Israel has kept the bodies of over a hundred Palestinians who were killed by its forces or died inside its prisons as 'bargaining chips', including that of Palestinian freedom fighter Nasser Abu Hmeid who died last week | Thousands of Palestinians took out marches across the occupied territories on Tuesday, December 27, demanding that Israel release the bodies of deceased Palestinian freedom fighter Nasser Abu Hmeid and others killed by its forces. | Protesters in the occupied West Bank marched from Amari refugee camp near Ramallah to the Qalandia checkpoint. Israeli forces used heavy force to disperse the pro…
(2023-01-03). New Israeli FM Signals Policy Shift on Ukraine, Neutrality Toward Russia. strategic-culture.org On 29 December, Russian President Vladimir Putin called for the 'strengthening of Russian-Israeli cooperation in all areas'. | By News Desk | On 2 January, Israel's newly appointed Foreign Minister Eli Cohen signaled a policy shift with Russia after relations soured due to the war in Ukraine since early 2022. | Cohen announced that Israel would take a step back on the conflict and no longer publicly condemn Russia. | "On the issue of Russia and Ukraine, we will do one thing for sure — speak less in public," the foreign minister said. | While Cohen announced that Israel would continue to supply humanitarian…
(2023-01-03). Israeli government welcomes Azov Battalion leader as honored guest. peoplesworld.org 
As a non-religious, atheist Jew, I am not one to make many biblical references. However, reading the news that representatives of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion have been invited to tour Israel as part of a PR stunt for the Ukrainian government, I found myself remembering the words of Jeremiah: "Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How …
(2023-01-03). Six Syrian Soldiers Were Killed In Recent Israeli Attack On Damascus Airport: Russian MoD. southfront.org 
An Israeli F-16 fighter jet en route to an exercise in Germany in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces) | Six Syrian soldiers were killed and two others were wounded as a result of the
(2023-01-03). Syrian Officer Assassinated Near Separation Line With Israel (Photos). southfront.org 
File image. | On January 2, an officer of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) was assassinated near the separation line with the Israeli-occupied al-Golan Heights in southern Syria. | The officer, identified as Lieutenant Colonel Nassib Nejdat Daghman, was killed along one of his soldiers while another was wounded when an explosive device ripped through a pickup truck that was carrying them from the town of Abu Hartin to the nearby village of masirtia in the western Daraa countryside. | Lt. Col. Daghman was repo…
(2023-01-03). Overstep of Israel's Supporters. dissidentvoice.org 
In community devastation, destruction of the Palestinian people ranks with the most severe. A group of foreign people invaded a land, seized property and resources from native people, expelled a mass of the population, and oppressed and controlled the remaining inhabitants. After decades of suffering under extreme oppression, with no end in sight, with oppressors …
(2023-01-03). US Sends Fighter Jets to Israeli Airbase for Temporary Deployment. news.antiwar.com The US Air Force has sent six F-15 fighter jets to an Israeli airbase for a temporary deployment that will involve joint drills with the Israeli Air Force (IAF) as the two countries continue to step up military cooperation. The F-15s are being sent to the Nevatim Airbase in southern Israel under US Air Forces …
(2023-01-03). Report: Israel's New FM Passed US Message to Russia's Lavrov. news.antiwar.com Israel's new foreign minister, Eli Cohen, spoke with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday and passed a message from the US, The Times of Israel reported. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held his first call with Cohen on Monday. An Israeli diplomatic official told the Times that Blinken was aware of the planned call …
(2023-01-03). Palestinians Condemn Far Right Israeli Minister's Visit to Islamic Holy Site. truthout.org Palestinians reacted with fury on Tuesday after far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir entered the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, a move seen as a deliberate provocation by an official with a long history of extremism and racist incitement. In a statement, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry called Ben-Gvir's "storming" of Al-Aqsa — Islam's third-holiest… |
(2023-01-03). Will the International Court of Justice finally give a Verdict against Israel's Illegal Squatting in Palestine? juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment)  ; Al-Quds [Jerusalem] reports the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution entitled "Israeli Practices that affect the Human Rights of the Palestinian People in Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem." It depended on Chapter XIV, Article 96 of the U.N. Charter, which specifies that "The General Assembly or …
(2023-01-03). Israel's Ben-Gvir Storms Al-Aqsa in 'Unprecedented Provocation'. globalresearch.ca
(2023-01-03). Culture of Hope: 2022 and the Margins of Victory in Palestine. dissidentvoice.org 
Another critical year for Palestine has folded. While 2022 has wrought much of the same in terms of Israeli military occupation and increasing violence, it also introduced new variables to the Palestinian struggle  ; nationally, regionally and internationally. Palestine, the War and the Arabs The Russia-Ukraine war starting in February pressured many political entities, including …
(2023-01-03). Condenan asesinato de dos palestinos por parte de Israel. telesurtv.net Asimismo el ente palestino consideró este crimen organizado como parte de un conflicto con una espiral de escalada donde Israel descarta la solución política.
(2023-01-03). Siria insta a la ONU a condenar crímenes israelíes. telesurtv.net "Las autoridades de ocupación israelíes han decidido agregar una nueva agresión a su historial de actos de agresión", denunció el ente sirio.
(2023-01-03). Muere joven palestino por disparos israelíes en Cisjordania. telesurtv.net Organizaciones palestinas indicaron las fuerzas de ocupación mataron a 224 palestinos durante el 2022.
(2023-01-03). Extremist Christian Militia in Lebanon May Ignite a New Civil War. strategic-culture.org
(2023-01-03). A new step to the dangerous line: now with drones? journal-neo.org 
On December 26, 2022, there was an incident between North and South that some media outlets immediately hyped as "peninsula on the brink of war": five North Korean drones crossed the inter-Korean border, with one of them flying over northern Seoul. This was the first such incident in five years. Four downed drones were discovered …
(2023-01-03). From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium. strategic-culture.org Theology should be kept as simple as Steinbeck's The recent passing of 95 year old Pope Benedict XVI should give not only the Latin Catholic Church but churches worldwide cause for reflection and reform. Pope Benedict, a draftee into and a deserter from Hitler's Wehrmacht, represented all that was best in European Catholicism, a faith that owes its survival to the armies of Spain's Philip II, who successfully withstood Ottoman threats t…
(2023-01-03). Golpistas bolivianos vuelven a atentar contra sede policial en Santa Cruz. telesurtv.net El subcomandante departamental de la Policía señaló que agentes policiales respondieron al ataque para dispersar evitar la toma y quema de la sede policial.
(2023-01-03). Int'l experts upbeat about China 2023 | Former Minister of State of Pakistan: I wish China more prosperity in future. ecns.cn "The leadership of China is looking at more people-centric approach, so we do see some major development in terms of a better quality of life for Chinese people, cleaner air quality and also technological advancement to make life more comfortable for the common people in China," says Haroon Sharif, a senior advisor to the United Nations and former Minister of State of Pakistan.
(2023-01-03). Palestine in Pictures: December 2022. electronicintifada.net A monthly roundup of photographs documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, and international solidarity with Palestine.
(2023-01-03). President Boric Says Chile Will Open Embassy in Occupied Palestine. indybay.org "We cannot forget a community that is suffering from an illegal occupation, a community that is resisting, a community that is seeing its rights and dignity violated every day," Chile's leftist president said.
(2023-01-03). Ningxia's China-Arab trade grows roots. ecns.cn In recent years, intelligent water-saving irrigation systems and technologies developed by Ningxia University have been used in several Arab countries, including Egypt, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, according to the university.
(2023-01-03). Sri Lankan president holds "national reconciliation" conference. wsws.org Wickremesinghe's all party conference is another attempt to enlist the support of the opposition parties amid growing popular anger against his government's vicious austerity program.
(2023-01-03). Military Situation In Syria On January 3, 2023 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On January 2, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 7 times: 5  ; in Idlib province, 2  ; in Latakia province; | On January 3, the SDF arrested Hafez Al-Khabil, former ISIS leader in the city of Al-Basira, east of Deir Ezzor; | On January 3, the SAA targeted a vehicle near the city of Atarib by an anti-tank missile; | On January 3, the SDF arrested 14 people in the districts of Tal Brak and Al-Hol on charges of belongi…
(2023-01-03). Panic In Greater Idlib: Top Leader Of Al-Qaeda's HTS Warns Of Syrian-Turkish Rapprochement. southfront.org 
Abu Mohamad al-Julani as seen in his last video message. | The leader of al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the de-facto ruler of the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib, has warned from any rapprochement between Turkey and Syria. | In a video message released by HTS's media network, Amjad, on January 2, Abu Mohamad al-Julani called the ongoing talks between the two countries are "a serious deviation.""The ongoing Russian-sponsored talks between Ankara and Damascus are a dangerous deviation th…
(2023-01-03). Three SDF Fighters Killed Or Wounded In First Turkish Drone Strike On Syria This Year (Video). southfront.org 
On January 3, a Turkish combat drone targeted a position of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the village…
(2023-01-03). Ex-NATO chief in Taiwan promotes Alliance of Democracies. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Focus TaiwanJanuary 3, 2023 Ex-NATO secretary-general arrives in Taiwan Former NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday morning for a three-day visit, during which he will meet with President Tsai Ing-wen, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). Rasmussen, who also served as Denmark's prime minister, was welcomed by MOFA Department …
(2023-01-03). Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov to visit China. ecns.cn At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov will pay a state visit to China from Jan. 5 to 6, foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying announced here on Tuesday.