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Russia Put Financial Bounty on U.S. Troops

Russia has allegedly been offering Taliban militants in Afghanistan cash rewards to kill U.S. soldiers in an effort aimed at destabilizing the war-torn country.

According to a New York Times report, agents affiliated with Russia’s GRU military intelligence rewarded insurgents with cash if they succeeded in killing U.S. or British soldiers. The program was headed by GRU unit 29155, a highly secretive outfit tasked with special operations beyond Russia’s borders believed to be behind the 2018 poisoning of double agent Sergei Skripal in England.

The bounties aimed to increase the violence and scuttle negotiations between the Taliban and the U.S., which eventually turned into a formal peace agreement between the two sides. U.S. intelligence got wind of Russia’s activities from interrogating captured militants.

The report stressed that it remains unclear when the cash rewards began and if President Vladimir Putin was aware of the GRU’s activities. Both the Taliban and the Russian Embassy deny the allegations.

President Donald Trump was briefed on the developments, and the National Security Council (NSC) held a meeting on the issue in midMarch. During the meeting, NSC officials drafted different possible responses ranging from a retaliatory cyber-attack to a formal diplomatic complaint, but the White House refrained from deciding on any of the options.

W hile not denying the veracity of the report, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany insisted that both President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence had not been briefed “on the alleged Russian bounty intelligence.”

“The United States receives thousands of intelligence reports a day, and they are subject to strict scrutiny,” added McEnany. “While the White House does not routinely comment on alleged intelligence or internal deliberations, the CIA Director, National Security Advisor, and the Chief of Staff can all confirm that neither the president nor the vice president were briefed on the alleged Russian bounty intelligence.”

McEnany’s account was confirmed by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, who said in a statement that “neither the President nor the Vice President were ever briefed on any intelligence alleged by The New York Times in its reporting yesterday.”

India Bans TikTok

Noting that they pose a “threat to sovereignty and integrity,” India is banning TikTok and other Chinese apps.

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said in a statement on Monday that it had received many complaints about misuse and transmission of user data by some mobile apps to servers outside India.

“The compilation of these data, its mining and profiling by elements hostile to national security and defense of India, which ultimately impinges upon the sovereignty and integrity of India, is a matter of very deep and immediate concern which requires emergency measures,” the ministry said, listing 59 apps including many prominent Chinese ones that will be subject to the ban.

While the Indian government’s statement did not mention China by name, the ban comes as military tensions between the two countries continue to escalate following deadly border clashes earlier this month that

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left at least 20 Indian soldiers dead. Many Indians have called for a boycott of Chinese goods and services, particularly from China’s dominant tech industry.

TikTok, the hugely popular video platform owned by Chinese tech giant Bytedance, has an estimated 120 million users in India, making the country one of its biggest markets. Aside from TikTok, other popular Chinese apps on the list include the video game Clash of Kings, messaging app WeChat, social network Weibo, and photo app CamScanner.

This is not the first time TikTok has run into trouble with the Indian government. The app was briefly blocked in India last year after a court ruled that it could expose children to inappropriate content, bullying, and predators. The app was reinstated a week later after successfully appealing the court’s decision.

China-Canada Relations Tumble

China has ripped Canada’s “megaphone diplomacy” following Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s remarks regarding two of his country’s citizens imprisoned by Beijing on espionage charges.

In early June, former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor were formally indicted for espionage by Chinese prosecutors. Both Canadian citizens had been arrested soon after Huawei executive Meng Wanzho was arrested at a Vancouver airport due to a U.S. extradition request.

Following the indictments of Kovrig and Spavor, Trudeau called the arrests “arbitrary” and called for their release. Trudeau’s statement enraged Beijing, who called on Ottawa to stop its “irresponsible statements” and change its “megaphone diplomacy.”

“The facts are clear and evidence solid and sufficient. The accusation of so-called arbitrarily detaining Canadian citizens is totally groundless,” said China’s Foreign Ministry. “Chinese judicial organs will continue to handle the above cases strictly in accordance with law, and protect the two Canadians’ lawful rights.”

While denying that the two Canadians are being held as bargaining pieces for the return of Meng, the ministry urged Trudeau to release her immediately. “At the same time, Canada should reflect on its mistakes in the Meng Wanzhou incident, stop political manipulation, immediately release Ms. Meng Wanzhou, and ensure her safe return to China,” said Beijing.

Meng has been accused of helping Huawei circumvent the Trump administration’s sanctions on Iran and remains out on bail pending her upcoming extradition. Earlier this month, 20 Canadian government officials signed a petition urging Trudeau to release Meng in order to bring Kovrig and Spavor back home.

Lightning Kills 107 in India

At least 107 people were killed by a series of lightning storms in two Indian states last week.

In Uttar Pradesh, 24 people were killed on Thursday while another 83

died in the eastern state of Bihar. Another 25 were injured, including seven who remain in serious condition. The highest single death toll occurred in the district of Gopalganj, which saw 13 people die in a single lightning strike.

In announcing the tragedy, Bihar Disaster Management Department head Sandeep Kumar promised that the Indian government would give $5,300 to each survivor. Prime Minister Narendra Modi also vowed to help, tweeting his condolences “to the families of those who have lost their lives in this disaster.”

Deadly lightning storms are not an infrequent occurrence in India, especially during the monsoon season, and kill more people on an annual basis than any other natural disaster in India.

In April, dozens of impoverished block the plans over fears that it will villagers died after being caught in a close off the Nile River, its main walightning storm in Bihar. Last sumter resource. mer, 39 people perished after a series Egypt wants the dam to be filled of lightning strikes amid a particuover a six-year period to give it time larly harmful monsoon season. to prepare; Ethiopia insists on operating it this month. I n a virtual meeting on Monday, Egypt told the UN Security Council Controversial Dam Discussions that it faces “an existential threat” should Ethiopia begin operating the dam in July as planned. In a speech lasting over an hour, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry stressed that the dam “could endanger the security and survival of an entire nation” and called for a resolution. “ A threat of potentially existential proportions has emerged that

Egypt and Ethiopia both apcould encroach on the single source pealed to the United Nations Secuof livelihood of over 100 million rity Council asking it to mediate a Egyptians,” said Shoukry. “This standoff over the latter’s controverdraft resolution is not intended to sial dam. preempt or forestall any negotia

Egypt has been locked in a distions but to express at the highest pute with Ethiopia regarding the $4.8 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Ethiopia levels the deep interests of the international community in reaching an agreement on the GERD and its "Advanced technology that enables safe access to all the sites and applications that you want. Choose from hopes that the dam will catapult it appreciation of the dangers of acts of 3 levels of protection as well as many other into the continent’s largest energy customizations." unilateralism in this matter.” exporter but Egypt has fought to Ethiopia has dismissed Egypt’s

concerns and argued that the UN had no jurisdiction over its dispute with Cairo. Citing Article 33 of the UN Charter that requires nations to first work out their issues on a regional level, Ethiopia said in a statement that the standoff should be resolved by the African Union.

Egypt’s plea to the UN came after the failure of the most recent round of negotiations in early June. Following five days of talks, a resolution to the conflict appeared increasingly distant as both countries failed to even agree on the starting point for the negotiations. By the fourth day, Egyptian representatives warned that the talks were collapsing due to Ethiopia’s “intransigence,” while Ethiopia slammed Egypt’s “insistence on maintaining a colonial based water allocation agreement.”

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Land clearing for agriculture, urban development, mining and forestry had been the biggest factor in the fragmentation and loss of habitat for the animals in NSW, the country’s most populous state, over several decades.

A prolonged, drought-fuelled bushfire season that ended early this year was also devastating for the animals, destroying about a quarter of their habitat across the state, and in some parts up to 81%.

“The evidence could not be more stark,” the inquiry’s 311-page final report said on Tuesday.

“The only way our children’s grandchildren will see a koala in the wild in NSW will be if the government acts upon the committee’s recommendations.”

The report, commissioned by a multi-party parliamentary committee, makes 42 recommendations, including an urgent census, prioritizing the protection of the animal in the planning of urban development, and increasing conservation funding.

It stopped short of unanimously recommending a moratorium on logging in public native forests.

Arrest Warrant

for Trump

Iran has issued an arrest warrant for U.S. President Donald Trump and 35 others over the killing of top general Qassem Soleimani and has asked Interpol for help, Tehran prosecutor Ali Alqasimehr said on Monday, according to the Fars news agency.

The United States killed Soleimani, leader of the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, in a drone strike in Iraq on January 3. Washington ac

cused Soleimani of masterminding attacks by Iranian-aligned militias on U.S. forces in the region.

Alqasimehr said the warrants had been issued on charges of murder and terrorist action. He said Iran had asked Interpol to issue a “red notice” for Trump and the other individuals the Islamic Republic accuses of taking part in the killing of Soleimani.

The killing of Soleimani brought the United States and Iran to the brink of armed conflict after Iran retaliated by firing missiles at American targets in Iraq several days later.

HK National Security Law Passed

Beijing has passed a wide-reaching national security law for Hong Kong, which many fear could be used to override existing legal processes and further erode the city’s civil and political freedoms.

Beijing’s top lawmaking body, the National People’s Congress (NPC), passed the law unanimously on Tuesday morning bypassing Hong Kong’s legislature.

The passing of the legislation has been clouded in secrecy, and details of the law itself remain scant. According to Xinhua news agency, the law contains six articles and 66 clauses and will go into effect immediately.

Xinhua previously reported the law would criminalize offenses such as secession, subversion against the central Chinese government, terrorism, and colluding with foreign forces.

Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday evening that she welcomed the introduction of the legislation.

“Safeguarding national security is the constitutional duty of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). The HKSAR Government welcomes the passage of the national security law by the NPCSC today,” Lam said in a statement.

She repeated previous remarks, saying the law “seeks to practically and effectively prevent, curb and punish four types of crimes seriously endangering national security.”

Lam confirmed that these include: “acts of secession, subversion of state power, terrorist activities, and collusion with foreign or external forces to endanger national security.”

The chief executive said that dedicated units in the Hong Kong Police Force and the Department of Justice will be responsible for enforcing the legislation.

Lam added: “I am confident that after the implementation of the national security law, the social unrest which has troubled Hong Kong people for nearly a year will be eased and stability will be restored, thereby enabling Hong Kong to start anew, focus on economic development, and improve people’s livelihood.”

In a video address to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva earlier on Tuesday, Lam said the law will “have no retrospective effect” – a major concern for many democracy activists in the city, especially for those facing charges relating to the protests last year.

The legislation has been widely criticized by opposition lawmakers in Hong Kong, human rights groups, and politicians worldwide, with many saying it will cement Beijing’s direct control over the semi-autonomous city. Many worry it could be used to target political dissidents, activists, human rights lawyers and journalists amid the central government’s continuing crackdown on civil society under Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Activists have vowed to demonstrate against the law on July 1, the anniversary of the territory’s handover from British colonial rule to China in 1997. The day has become an annual day of protests in the city, but for the first time since handover police have not given permission to protesters to hold peaceful demonstrations.

Opponents of the law say it marks the end of the “one country, two systems” – a principle by which Hong Kong has retained limited democracy and civil liberties since coming under Chinese control.

Crucially, those freedoms include the right to assembly, a free press, and an independent judiciary, rights that are not enjoyed on the Chinese mainland.

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