International News
Maduro wins again
by Lyuba Lulko, Pravda.ru
Last weekend the people of Venezuela re-elected Nicolás Maduro as president. Do not believe what the Western newspapers say about Venezuela. Maduro celebrates an honest victory.
Venezuela held presidential elections on Sunday. Nicolás Maduro was re-elected for his third six-year term having scored 51.2 per cent of the vote. Opposition candidate Edmundo González gained 44 per cent
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Blast In Golan Heights Not from Hezbollah
by Ian DeMartino , Sputnik
Veteran war correspondent Elijah Magnier says that what little information is available on the Golan Heights explosion that killed 12 Arab Druze Muslim children contradicts the official story offered by the Israeli government.
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Russian victories and NATO escalation
SouthFront
Another month of hostilities in Ukraine is coming to its end. Over the last month, Russian forces took control of one of the largest areas since the beginning of the year. The advance of the Russian army is comparable to the gains made in the spring of 2022.
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The Harris Effect
by Guillermo Alvarado, Radio Havana Cuba
The abandonment of President Joe Biden’s re-election race and the arrival of Kamala Harris have breathed new life into the Democratic Party
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Features
Unit 731: Japan’s hideous war-time experiments
by Xu Keyue, Global Times
“If the discovery seemed like the opening scene of a murder mystery, it is one that Japan prefers to leave unsolved,” the New York Times once commented on the startling and frightening discovery in Tokyo in 1989 of more than 100 human skulls suspected of being linked to the Imperial Japanese Army’s infamous Unit 731.
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China leads world in renewable energy
by Lyn Neeley, Workers World (USA)
In 2023 People’s China produced 60 per cent of the world’s electric vehicles, 98 per cent of the world’s electric buses and two-thirds of all the world’s wind and solar projects. Its workers installed more solar panels than they had in the previous three years combined, nearly twice as much as the rest of the world combined.
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What We Can Learn from the Global Microsoft Outage?
by Bappa Sinha , People’s Democracy (India)
A Global IT outage on 19th July, 2024, affected more than 8.5 million Microsoft computers worldwide, disrupting airlines, hospitals, banks, train services and even government agencies. The outage was caused by a faulty update from the cybersecurity provider, CrowdStrike, which caused Microsoft Windows machines to crash and get stuck in the infamous ‘blue screen of death’ booting loop. Interestingly, the global disruption wasn’t caused by cyber-attacks from hostile hackers but by the cybersecurity firm whose product was meant to prevent such attacks.
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British students cherish memories of China
by Zhao Juecheng and Ji Yuqiao, Global Times
“I think having the chance to come to Beijing and experience what China’s really like has been the cherry on the cake. It might be a unique once-in-alifetime experience for me.”
Last week at the Beijing Language & Culture University, British youths rushed forward to speak about what they felt about their trip to People’s China during the closing ceremony of a summer camp that attracted nearly 1,200 teens from 61 UK schools.
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