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![Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar]()
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar
Head of the Taliban's political office
“Our very participation in the negotiations and its support on our part indicates openly that we believe in resolving issues through (mutual) understanding.”
Read more...Afghan officials say the Taliban are using roadside bombs, suicide attacks and targeted killings in a push to seize territory ahead of a U.S. pullout. -
![Belta]()
Belta
Belarusian state news agency
“[N]one of the sanctions have achieved their political goals. But those sanctions have been hiding other things - issues related to the division of markets and the pushing out of competitors. We can see the same processes against Belarus today.”
Read more...EU, U.K. and U.S. sanctions against Belarus were specifically tied to human rights abuses, including the forced landing of a Ryanair flight. -
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Press TV
Iranian state TV channel
“Ayatollah Khamenei said elections in the Islamic Republic have always been sound and said the fact that presidents of sometimes divergent political viewpoints have been elected in the past has been proof.”
Read more...Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, effectively controls who can be a presidential candidate. Women were rejected, and turnout in the June 18 vote hit a record low. -
![Sen. Francis Tolentino]()
Sen. Francis Tolentino
“How can she, during her tenure, objectively conduct an investigation when some members of the international community considered her a persona non grata for terrorist links?”
Read more...The Trump administration labeled the prosecutor a “Specially Designated National” for investigating alleged Afghanistan war crimes, not terrorist ties. -
![Gaurav Pandhi]()
Gaurav Pandhi
A Congress party leader
“[T]he Modi Govt has admitted that COVAXIN consists Newborn Calf Serum. This is heinous! This information should have been made public before.”
Read more...Animal extracts are used in the Covaxin anti-COVID-19 vaccine’s production but none are present in final product. -
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Vladimir Putin
President, Russia
On multiple topics – Ukraine, cyber attacks, Crimea, Alexey Navalny – Putin made misleading statements after his meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden.
Read more...Polygraph.info has fact-checked many of these issues in the past. Here is how Putin’s post-summit comments measure up. -
![Recep Tayyip Erdogan]()
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
President of Turkey
“Although Turkey has fulfilled promises regarding F-35s, unfortunately, the U.S. has not fulfilled promises. [The U.S.] did not keep its promise on the Patriot system, either.’’
Read more...The United States says Erdogan has had multiple opportunities to buy the Patriot missile defense system but chose Russia’s despite the security risks. -
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Vladimir Putin
president of Russia
"It's just fake news. At the very least, I don't know anything about this kind of thing. Those who are speaking about it probably know more about it. It's just nonsense, garbage."
Read more...The Russian space agency Roscosmos confirmed a satellite partnership with Iran in August 2015. -
![Global Times]()
Global Times
Chinese Communist Party newspaper
“The announcement came after some anti-China forces and media outlets used the population data from the seventh national census, which was released on May 13, as new ingredients to cook up their old lies of ‘genocide.’”
Read more...The article neglects to detail the detention of Uyghurs in Xinjiang “education” facilities or mention forced birth control, among other repressive tactics. -
![Wang Wenbin]()
Wang Wenbin
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson
“The groundless accusations against China's policies in Hong Kong made by [U.K.] Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab in the foreword of the report again constitute gross interference in Hong Kong affairs and China's domestic affairs.”
Read more...Despite Beijing’s protests, violations of Hong Kong’s autonomy documented in a new U.K. report are clear as day. -
![Vladimir Putin]()
Vladimir Putin
President, Russia
“I’ve heard about some kind of a meat factory. Well, that is nonsense, simply ridiculous. The pipeline is ridiculous too … Well, it’s just nonsense to blame Russia for this.”
Read more...The notorious Russian-speaking REvil and DarkSide cybergangs made no secret of their ransomware exploits, which are tacitly tolerated by the Kremlin. -
![China Global Television Network]()
China Global Television Network
“Expert: Zero evidence that virus came out of a lab in China.”
Read more...Be it a lab leak or force of nature, the jury is still out on origins of the novel coronavirus.
