Headlines- After a temporary suspension, Emirates said the airline "will resume operations."
- On Saturday, US President Donald Trump said that Iran will be "hit very hard" and that he was thinking about extending the strikes to other targets..
- At least five ballistic missile launches from Iran have been detected by the Israelis since midnight.
- Mehrabad Airport in Tehran is hit by strikes
- The Prince Sultan Air Base was the target of a ballistic missile that Saudi Arabia's military intercepted and destroyed, according to the country's defense ministry.
- Heavy gunfire on Friday injured three peacekeepers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon inside their base in southwest Lebanon.
- To put an end to the bloodshed, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged serious diplomatic negotiations..
- In a social media post, President Trump said that "no deal" other than "unconditional surrender" will be with Iran.
- Iran reportedly receives intelligence from Russia on US targets.
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Hong Kong Strikes Off Primary Teacher...
Education secretary Kevin Yeung told journalists that the teacher had designed his own teaching materials for two classes last March dealing with the topic of independence for the city — a topic banned by Beijing — and the banned pro-independence Hong Kong National Party
Facebook Accounts in Line With Beijing’s...
In an investigation into inauthentic activity on Facebook, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) found that fake accounts are posting content in English and Chinese “that support[s] the political objectives of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).”
‘Lin Zhao Changed My Life’: Interview...
Mao-era Chinese dissident Lin Zhao, whose birth name was Peng Lingzhao, was a writer who grew up near Nanjing, in the eastern province of Jiangsu. Initially a star student at the prestigious Peking University, Lin was branded a “rightist” and a “class enemy” in the 1950s for her criticism of then-supreme leader Mao Zedong’s Anti-Rightist Movement targeting intellectuals.
‘They Just Kept Escalating The Use...
A lot of police officers would humiliate and curse out arrested protesters during the anti-extradition movement. When they got you back to the police station they would do everything they could to make it harder for us. For example, it was very hot in the police station and there was a long wait to go to the bathroom.
‘I Would Have Been a Student...
Probably the first time I went over the Great Firewall when I was in high school. I think I used Freedom Gate software. I felt very shocked and angry after watching the footage that showed the truth about June 4. But I didn’t feel very surprised. I have always been quite rebellious, ever since I was a kid. It just confirmed the impression I already had of the [ruling] Chinese Communist Party. It just convinced me that the views I had held since I was a kid were correct, and it also aroused in me a sense of resistance. If I’d been on Tiananmen Square back then, I would have been a student leader too.
Echoing Their Government, ‘Wolf Warriors’ Howl...
An article by Yu Gui writing on qq.com has collected some of Zhidao Xuegong’s more outrageous articles, with the author commenting, “In my opinion, the principle of this account is that ‘there are no rumors too wild to spread; there are only rumors that you fail to think of.’”
North Koreans in China Live in...
Authorities on both sides have stepped up physical barriers and electronic monitoring of the border area in recent years, while the ruling Chinese Communist Party relies on an army of citizens with red armbands to keep tabs on illegal immigrants and report them to the authorities.
Idle Factories, Empty Trade Zone Highlight...
About 800 of more than 4,000 workers at the Crystal Martin factory in Kandal province went on strike Thursday after the factory has failed to pay them in the wake of suspending production from March 5 to April 30 due to a lack of raw muaterials from China
Hospital Director in China’s Wuhan Dies...
Liu Zhiming, director of Wuhan’s Wuchang Hospital, died at 10.10 a.m. on Tuesday at the age of 50. He was the seventh reported healthcare worker to die from the virus since the epidemic first emerged in the city in December
Wuhan Residents Scramble to Leave Virus-Hit...
Outbound trains and planes were indefinitely suspended in Wuhan, while tollbooths were shut down, blocking roads out of the city ahead of Lunar New Year’s Eve on Jan. 24