2024-12-01: News Headlines

ICRC (2024-12-01). Afghanistan: Supporting primary health care for people most in need. icrc.org

ecns.cn (2024-12-01). HK, Macao visit restrictions eased. ecns.cn Central authorities on Friday relaxed restrictions to allow residents in selected areas of Guangdong province to visit Hong Kong and Macao more frequently, just in time for the peak travel season.

hindustantimes (2024-12-01). Kash Patel: Trump Picks Indian-American Ally As FBI Director; 'Will End Crime Epidemic' | US News. hindustantimes.com US President-elect Donald Trump picked Kash Patel as the new director of the FBI. Patel will replace current FBI director Christopher A. Wray three years before his term expires. In a post on Truth Social, Trump praised Patel as "a brilliant lawyer, investigator, and 'America First' fighter who has spent his career exposing corruption, defending justice, and protecting the American people."

Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. (2024-12-01). Farmers And Workers In India Unite Against Neoliberal Assaults. popularresistance.org Thousands of farmers and workers took to the streets in India on Tuesday, November 26 demanding minimum support price for their farm produce and preservation of labor rights in the country against the assaults from the pro-corporate government. | The protests were called by all a joint platform of central trade unions and Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a joint platform of farmers groups formed during the 2020-21 farmers' agitation against the three pro-corporate farms laws. | The central demands of the protesters include repeal of four labor codes introduced by the ultra right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gove…

____ (2024-12-01). Coetzee's Injury: A Blow to South Africa's Crucial Test Campaign. devdiscourse.com South Africa faces a significant setback as fast bowler Gerald Coetzee has been sidelined for the second Test against Sri Lanka and the upcoming home series against Pakistan. Official reports from the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirm that Coetzee is nursing a groin injury that emerged during the first Test against Sri Lanka.

Olivia Rosane (2024-11-30). Advocates Say Plastics Treaty Draft Falls Far Short as Talks Near Deadline. truthout.org As negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty enter their final stretch in Busan, South Korea, environmental and human rights advocates warned Friday that national delegates are "sleepwalking into a treaty that will not be worth the paper it will be written on." The current treaty draft text, shared with delegates on Friday, excludes key civil society demands, such as a clear and binding limit… |

Hamza Hamouchene (2024-11-30). Vietnam, Algeria, Palestine: Passing on the torch of the anti-colonial struggle. mondoweiss.net No discussion of decolonization can be complete without understanding the importance of Vietnam and Algeria, and how their liberation struggles inspire oppressed people all over the world, including the Palestinians.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-11-30). Vietnam, Algeria, Palestine: Passing on the Torch of the Anti-Colonial Struggle. libya360.wordpress.com Hamza Hamouchene Illustration by Fourate Chahal El Rekaby The 70th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu and Algeria's revolution highlights their profound influence on global decolonization. This longread explores their impact on the Palestinian resistance, shedding light on their shared struggle against colonial oppression and their continuing inspiration to the world. Introduction 'Revolution is not a…

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2024-11-30: News Headlines

Maxime Duriez (2024-11-30). International Criminal Court arrest warrants: France is lying about Benjamin Netanyahu's immunity. fidh.org

United World International (2024-11-30). The abnormality: War promotion laws passed one after another. unitedworldint.com US Imperialism's "Encircling China" Strategy and Japan's steps. By Hiroshi Inagaki, Tokio / Japan In the current ordinary Diet session, the U.S. imperialist strategy for East Asia ("Encirclement of China" strategy) is being pushed forward to raise military expenditures and enact a number of war promotion laws to make Japan a war state in line …

ecns.cn (2024-11-30). HK, Macao visit restrictions eased. ecns.cn Central authorities on Friday relaxed restrictions to allow residents in selected areas of Guangdong province to visit Hong Kong and Macao more frequently, just in time for the peak travel season.

G. Dunkel (2024-11-30). Arrogant display of U. S. financial power. workers.org Gautam Adani, ranked the second richest man in India and the 22nd richest man in the world by Forbes, was indicted in New York on Nov. 20 on charges rising from the Foreign Corrupt Practices (FCP) Act, a U.S. anti-bribery law. A few days later, federal prosecutors issued arrest warrants . . . |

ecns.cn (2024-11-30). China, Russia militaries patrol Sea of Japan airspace. ecns.cn The Chinese and Russian militaries carried out a joint strategic aerial patrol in the relevant airspace of the Sea of Japan, the Ministry of National Defense announced on Friday.

____ (2024-11-30). Salman Ali Agha to Lead Pakistan in T20I Opener Against Zimbabwe. devdiscourse.com In a strategic move, Salman Ali Agha has been appointed captain of Pakistan's cricket team for their first T20I match against Zimbabwe, scheduled for Sunday at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo. This comes on the heels of Pakistan's recent 2-1 triumph in the ODI series.

ecns.cn (2024-11-30). China and Singapore relation in numbers. ecns.cn Located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, Singapore's strategic position at the Strait of Malacca transformed it from a fishing village into a global trade hub. | Today, it thrives as a global maritime hub with thriving trade, finance, and one of the world's busiest container ports.

infobrics (2024-11-29). US escalates aggression in Asia-Pacific, Russia to support allies in the region. infobrics.org The warmongering oligarchy in Washington DC doesn't seem to care about de-escalation. On the contrary, the US and its NATO (and non-NATO) allies, vassals and satellite states are pushing for global destabilization, targeting nuclear-armed powers such as Russia, China and North Korea, as well as other sovereigntist nations such as Iran and Venezuela, among others.

Abdul Rahman (2024-11-29). Farmers and workers in India unite against neoliberal assaults on their livelihoods. peoplesdispatch.org The protesters also registered their opposition to growing corporate and sectarian nexus which has been influencing the policy making under BJP led central government in the country.

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