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Eight Individuals Charged With Conspiring to Act as Illegal Agents of the People's Republic of China

PRC Officials Directed Multi-Year Campaign of Harassment and Stalking; Directed at U.S. Residents to Force Their Return to PRC A complaint and arrest warrants were unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging eight defendants with conspiring to act in the United States as illegal agents of the People’s Republic …

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Musulmans français, encore un (gros) effort vers l’assimilation!

Le double discours des représentants du culte musulman trahit une réticence à l’assimilation Vingt-quatre heures après avoir tenu des propos intolérables sur la liberté d’expression, Mohammed Moussaoui évoque une « maladresse ».

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Officials’ Trial Could Verify Serbia’s Role in Croatian, Bosnian Wars

As the retrial of two top wartime officials of Serbia’s State Security Service enters its final phase, the verdict could establish the facts of Belgrade’s much-denied direct involvement in the 1990s conflicts in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. “Do you recognise the person we are looking at?”

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Troubled Relationship: Kosovo’s Thaci and the Hague War Crimes Court

President Hashim Thaci’s uneasy relationship with the Kosovo Specialist Chambers has gone through many phases over the past five years. Accusations from the prosecution in The Hague last week that Thaci has been seeking to undermine the ‘Special Court’ are only the latest chapter in a story that has seen …

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‘Serb-Hating Bieberhausen’: What the Slurs Say about Serbia’s Ruling Party

Baron Bieberhausen. A lonely dinosaur of a past era. Candeid fruit. These are some of the wittier terms Serbia’s president and leader of the ruling Progressive Party of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has used to describe me in press releases, tweets and TV appearances over the past year. The less flattering …

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Democracy Digest: Abortion Restriction Votes Succeed in Poland, Fail in Slovakia… Just

Conservative forces in both Poland and Slovakia used the cover of the pandemic to try to push through stricter limits on abortion this week. They succeeded in Poland, but just failed in Slovakia. The Polish Constitutional Tribunal on Thursday ruled that abortions in the case of a malformation of the …

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North Macedonia’s 5G Plans Put China’s Friendship at Risk

North Macedonia on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the United States on security issues linked with new telecommunications technologies, which is expected to indirectly bar China’s tech giants, Huawei and ZTE from the race in the country to build 5G.

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London Calling: Albanians Count Cost of UK Illegality

By the time he was 14 years old, nine of Besi Handroj’s classmates had left their homes in the northern Albanian region of Puka for the United Kingdom. In 2014, aged 15, Handroj decided to join them, dreaming of a ride on the London Eye and a career that would …

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China: Existential Threat to America

We can, of course, cooperate with a China that is a partner or a friend. We can even cooperate with a China that is a competitor; all nations to some degree compete. The question is this: Is China merely just a competitor? Can we, for instance, cooperate with a China …

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United States Files Complaint to Forfeit Iranian Missiles and Sells Previously-Transferred Iranian Petroleum

The Iranian Missiles Were Confiscated and the Iranian Petroleum Was Transferred From Ships in International Waters The Justice Department today announced the filing of a complaint to forfeit two shipments of Iranian missiles that the U.S. Navy seized in transit from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to militant groups …

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