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Global Times
Chinese state-owned newspaper
“… Indian troops crossed the border and launched provocative attacks against Chinese personnel.”
Read more...Although China says Indian troops instigated the bloody Himalayan border clash on June 15 , a U.S. commission reports that China may have “planned” the incident. -
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Svetlana Petrenko
Spokesperson, Russian Investigative Committee
“The information disseminated in the media, that the probe is being launched by the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia in Moscow based on the statements by A. Navalny, does not correspond to reality.”
Read more...Russian officials have tiptoed around the question of a new Navalny criminal case, without confirming or denying there is one. -
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Global Times
Chinese Communist Party newspaper
“Experts familiar with Hong Kong's judicial affairs said that the denial of bail on Thursday is a legal decision based on the fact that (Jimmy) Lai was involved in multiple cases, and there is the risk that he might flee the city …”
Read more...The charges against Hong Kong democracy advocate Jimmy Lai are relatively minor and the risk of denying him bail was exaggerated. -
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Sergey Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister
"It’s hard to say what Ms. Sandu meant when she pointed to the need to withdraw Russian peacekeepers, but it will hardly help resolve the issue and we will hardly be able to accept this kind of irresponsible demand.”
Source: TASS, December 1, 2020Read more...The U.N. has said Russian troops in Transnistria aren’t peacekeepers and should leave Moldovan territory. -
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Alexander Lukashenko
President of Belarus
“The issue is, I quote, Belarusian land belonging to Poland. That is already declared openly.”
Read more...Dogged by protests since his disputed re-election last summer, the Belarus autocrat is shifting blame to outsiders. -
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Mike Pompeo
U.S. Secretary of State
"You can't stand here and stare out at what's across the border and deny the central thing that President Trump recognized, that previous presidents had refused to do, that this is a part of Israel, and a central part of Israel."
Read more...Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights is not internationally recognized. The United Nations calls Israel’s control of the territory an occupation. -
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Hugo Lopez-Gatell
Mexico’s deputy health minister
“He says to everyone we all have to take it very seriously, that is what he said, we must take the epidemic seriously, and it refers to what we say here every night.”
Read more...López-Gatell’s comment misrepresents a dire assessment of Mexico’s coronavirus risk from World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. -
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Dmitry Kiselyov
Head of the Russian state-owned media conglomerate Rossiya Segodnya
“[It was Psaki] who was going to send the fleet to the shores of Belarus.”
Read more...Rossiya Segodnya chief seized on words real and imagined from President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for White House press secretary to preemptively tar his new administration. -
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TASS
Russian state news agency
"Recognizing the important role of the United States and its capability to solve regional issues, Syria and Russia have offered the US side to use the Damascus platform ... The answer was no and there was unfounded criticism of those who are really contributing to returning Syrian citizens back home.”
Read more...The U.S. has little on-the-ground presence in Syria now, and many Syrian refugees fear returning to Assad regime-controlled territory. -
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Rodrigo Constantino
Conservative Brazilian commentator
“There are complaints, and the complaints from the Republican Party – they are not from Trump – they are very robust. Rudolph Giuliani himself, the former mayor of New York, a respected lawyer, gave numerous indications of it.”
Read more...Giuliani’s claims of a broad conspiracy to steal the presidential election from Donald Trump are disputed and specific claims have been rejected by courts. -
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The People’s Daily
Chinese state media
"#COVID19 did not start in central China’s Wuhan but may come through imported frozen food and packaging: experts”
Read more...Chinese state media has claimed Wuhan is not the origin of Covid-19, even as the WHO investigation into the origin of the global pandemic is just getting started. -
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Jin Canrong
Professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing
“Within 15 minutes of the weapons being deployed, those occupying the hilltops all began to vomit. They couldn’t stand up, so they fled.”
Read more...A Beijing-based academic has claimed without evidence that Chinese soldiers drove away Indian troops in the Himalayas using a microwave weapon.
