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Maria Zakharova
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman
"We are talking about aggressive statements in the media with threats of a missile strike on Russia and the start of full-scale hostilities."
Read more...Ukraine never threatened any missile strike on Russia despite ongoing hostilities on the border and over Crimea. -
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan
President of Turkey
“[Foreign ambassadors] cannot dare to come to the Turkish foreign ministry and give orders.”
Read more...No one gave “orders.” The ambassadors had called on Erdogan to honor an EU Court of Human Rights appeal and free Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala. -
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Moeun Chhean Nariddh and Son Minea
Reporters, Khmer Times
“[G]overnment officials, scholars and ordinary Cambodians have looked back and expressed their views about how the spirit of the (agreement) has been fulfilled and translated into actions to ensure peace and democracy in Cambodia.”
Read more...War may have ended under the 1991 peace agreement, but Hun Sen has abandoned commitments to a pluralistic Cambodia. -
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Oleg Deripaska
Russian oligarch
"Watching everything that is happening in America, I cannot help but marvel at the utter stupidity of part of the American establishment, who persist in spinning this story about the allegedly colossal role of the Russians in the 2016 U.S. presidential election."
Read more...After an FBI raid on U.S. properties, Deripaska distorts what happened in the 2016 presidential campaign. -
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Dmitry Peskov
Russian presidential spokesman
“This vaccinophobia, which some citizens have, is not related to vaccine brands at all.”
Read more...Russia has restricted the import of Western vaccines, and some Russians don’t trust the country’s own Sputnik V. -
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Mohammad Samer al-Khalil
Syrian Minister of Economy and Trade
“’Til today, oil fields continue to be looted under U.S. supervision and by U.S. companies in northeastern Syria and with the cooperation of terrorist groups in the area.”
Read more...The Biden administration spiked a U.S. oil contractor’s license to operate in Syria and says troops are there only to fight Islamic State. -
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Tiffany Meier
Reporter, New Tang Dynasty TV
“In Taiwan, the number of people dying after their COVID-19 vaccination is exceeding the number of deaths from the virus itself."
Read more...The claim is based on hearsay reports. There have been relatively few deaths in Taiwan, and the unvaccinated remain at far greater risk. -
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C.J. Pearson
Founder, Free Thinker Project
“Will the media point out that Colin Powell died despite being fully vaccinated the same way they point out when people aren’t when they die?”
Read more...General Colin Powell, the former U.S. Secretary of State, had a weakened immune system from cancer; vaccines remain the best protection against severe illness or death from COVID-19. -
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Zhao Lijian
Spokesman, Chinese Foreign Ministry
“[T]he largest emitter in cumulative terms is the U.S. Climate change is the result of cumulative emissions of greenhouse gases.”
Read more...By blaming the United States, China distracts from its current rank as the world’s gigantically biggest emitter of global warming gases. -
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Maria Zakharova
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson
“Let me remind you about our fundamental position that is rooted in international law: Any decisions on sanctions bypassing the U.N. Security Council are illegitimate from the perspective of international law.”
Read more...European Union sanctions on Russia do not violate international law, and Russia itself has enacted similar sanctions. -
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Khairullah Khairkhwa
Taliban minister of information and culture
“We did not shut down any newspaper or TV channel.”
Read more...In fact, Taliban violence and bullying has forced scores of media closures, often targeting outlets employing women. Journalists are fleeing in fear. -
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs Myanmar
“Myanmar is committed to constructively cooperate in the implementation of five-point consensus agreed at the ASEAN Leaders’ Meeting…”
Read more...Myanmar’s junta has only backtracked on support for a regional plan to end bloodshed and avert a humanitarian crisis.
