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South China Morning Post
Hong Kong-based news outlet
“A secret meeting to discuss plans to send an armed militia to invade the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo Island is believed to have been held by a senior local government official in the southern Philippines.”
Read more...Report relies on a single anonymous source without any other corroborating evidence. -
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Herbert Kickl
Leader of the Austrian Freedom Party
“Thanks to around 100,000 people who were there on Saturday in Vienna. … an unmistakable, but at the same time enormously disciplined and completely peaceful sign of the will for freedom and the resistance against this … dictatorship and its coercive measures.”
Read more...The Vienna police estimated only 44,000 protesters. Some were arrested for attacking journalists, shooting off fireworks and refusing masks. -
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RT
Russian state media outlet
“New Zealand’s prime minister has given some Kiwis an early Christmas present as she announced that newly relaxed Covid-19 restrictions, based on a ‘traffic light system,’ allow for orgies of up to 25 people.”
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Wang Wenbin
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson
"Any act that attempts to politicize sports in the name of human rights and freedom violates the spirit of the Olympic Charter."
Read more...A commitment to human rights embraced in the charter's principles and the ethics code of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). -
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Bouthaina Shaaban
Syrian president’s political and media adviser
“[In] Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega has just won a landslide victory in his elections. While the U.S. does not acknowledge Nicaragua as a democracy … 74% of people voted for Daniel Ortega.”
Read more...The recent Nicaraguan election was a sham vote, and Ortega runs the country with an iron fist in the same dictatorial style as Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. -
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Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB)
“The [Ukrainian] ship did not have permission to pass through the strait and did not respond to commands to change its course, the FSB said.”
Read more...Russia based its attempt to deny a Ukraine navy ship innocent passage in Sea of Azov on its illegal annexation of Crimea. -
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New China Research (NCR)
Think tank of China's Xinhua News Agency
“The word ‘democracy,’ which first appeared in ancient Greece, originally meant ‘rule by the people.’ In China, ‘the running of the country by the people’ has become a reality that is increasingly vivid and vigorous.”
Read more...The Chinese Communist Party’s purported rule for the people is not the same thing as rule by the people. -
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Komsomolskaya Pravda
Russian media conglomerate
“If Russia attacks Ukraine, we won’t be able to help.”
Read more...The quote attributed to Nuland, U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs, is fake and part of a torrent of domestic propaganda over Ukraine. -
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Denis Pushilin
Leader of self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic”
"I consider these statements provocative, and even emanating not so much from Ukraine as from the United States, so all these insinuations which, it seems, must force Russia to withdraw troops from Russia, well, this is absurd.”
Read more...Despite denials, evidence shows Russia has not only massed troops on the Ukrainian border but added logistical support needed to invade. -
![Abdul Qahar Balki]()
Abdul Qahar Balki
Spokesperson, Foreign Affairs Ministry, Afghan Taliban
“The Mojahedin are fully committed to enforcing the amnesty decree, and the staff of the former administration will not be harassed because of their previous opposition.”
Read more...Reports of reprisals contradict the Taliban’s promised amnesty for former security officers. -
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Tenna Kalimwa
Representative inheritor of the Saban Festival
“The country supports the protection of the traditional culture of ethnic minorities ... Who has seen this kind of 'genocide?' The malicious lies will eventually break in the face of facts.”
Read more...As more evidence of repression against Uyghurs surfaces, Beijing recycles old denials. -
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Rodong
North Korean state-owned news agency
“A new COVID-19 variant virus which is five times stronger than delta virus appeared in the world, arousing serious concerns.”
Read more...The jury is out on omicron, with authorities still studying its virulence and transmissibility. Anecdotal evidence suggests it causes milder illness.
