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Mass protest in Pakistan tonight led by former Prime Minister Imran Khan but first...
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China is said to be seeking a regional deal with a group of Pacific island nations when Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets with regional leaders in Fiji next week...REUTERS
Financier George Soros says that Western nations must "mobilize all our resources" to defeat Vladimir Putin saying that Ukraine is delaying the fight against "climate change".
Soros speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos...EU REPORTER
TWO US OFFICIALS REPORTED ON A SECRET TRIP TO SAUDI ARABIA.
THE TRIP DESIGNED TO PAVE THE WAY FOR A JOE BIDEN MEETING WITH THE KINGDOM'S DE-FACTO RULER CROWN PRINCE MOHAMMED BIN-SALMAN...TIMES OF ISRAEL
PENNSYVLVANIA GOP SENATE PRIMARY RECOUNT TRIGGERED
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Politics here in Pennsylvania the race between David McCormick and Mehmet Oz for the Republican US Senate nomination.
Pennsylvania's Acting Secretary of State holding a news conference today to certify the race is close enough for a recount.
The recount period starts Friday and ends June 7th with counties expected to report final results by 12 Noon on June 8th...NBC 10 PHILADELPHIA
The vote count reported by the Associated Press at 830 pm Eastern US time today is Mehmet Oz 419,488 and David McCormick 418,583.
The Pennsylvania Department of State says the mail-in vote total so far is David McCormick 46,233 and Mehmet Oz 33,308.
Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe taking on the role of finance minister to lead talks with the International Monetary Fund.
Sri Lanka deep in a financial crisis with shortages of food and fuel.
Wickremesinghe planning an interim budget in six weeks that he says will cut government spending sharply and re-route money into a national relief program...REUTERS
North Korea testing a nuclear detonation device. That's the word from the office of South Korea's President.
Those tests appear to be a prelude for what would be North Korea's seventh nuclear test at its Punggye-ri nuclear test site...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA
MASS PROTEST IN PAKISTAN LED BY FORMER PRIME MINISTER WITH ARMY DEPLOYED TO PROTECT GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS IN CAPITAL CITY
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Supporters of ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan reaching the Pakistani capital of Islamabad overcoming barriers erected by police.
Khan calling on his supporters to protest in all Pakistani cities.
Police have used tear gas in efforts to stop protesters.
Internet disruptions also reported in major Pakistani cities this evening.
The government ordering army deployment to protect key government buildings in Islamabad.
UN HUMAN RIGHTS CHIEF IN CHINA AMIDST CONTROVERSY OVER TREATMENT OF MUSLIMS IN XINJIANG-
WHAT IS THE END GAME THERE?
(NEWS, COMMENT AND ANALYSIS)
China's President Xi Jinping defending his country's human rights record to UN Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet.
Xi says China's human rights policy "conforms to the trend of the times and suits its own national conditions"...ASSOCIATED PRESS-ABC NEWS US
Bachelet is visiting the Xinjiang region of Western China where the treatment of Muslims who populate the region has become a major Western media focus similar to reporting related to Russia in recent years.
BBC News has routinely published stories almost exclusively at mid-week almost weekly until Ukraine became the big story that paint China's human rights record in Xinjiang in a negative light...BBC NEWS STORY THIS WEEK
When it comes to Ukraine and Russia BBC News has clearly bent to the Western defense and intelligence community's spin on the situation.
What is the end game when it comes to China?
The talk in defense and intelligence circles about the Indo-Pacific, the AUKUS military alliance, the Quad Meeting in Tokyo with Joe Biden and the leaders of Japan, Australia and India.
There was an attempted coup with jihadist overtones in the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan earlier this year a nation bordering Russia and China...AL JAZEERA QATAR-JANUARY 10, 2022
This reminiscent of the British-US Gulf Arab backed jihadist wars in Libya and Syria in the last decade or more.
Islamic State is already operating in Afghanistan bombing shia mosques on Fridays for example. Afghanistan also borders China on the West.
Does the increasingly obvious UK-US strategy of opposing China involve eventual warfare on its western borders in the Xinjiang region with Islamic jihadists as proxies?
RUSSIA-UKRAINE DRAMA
PUTIN VISITS WOUNDED SOLDIERS IN HOSPITAL
Russian President Vladimir Putin visiting wounded soldiers in a Moscow hospital today...TASS RUSSIA
Other news....
The slow counting of the vote continues in Australia with a few House and Senate seats still undecided...75 percent of the vote for the House totaled five seats still in doubt and 60 percent of the Senate vote tallied with two seats still in doubt...AUSTRALIAN ELECTION BREAKING NEWS POST WITH LATEST UPDATE
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