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China Building Leverage Over Duterte By Ignoring His Bloody Drug War

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and China’s leader Xi Jinping are like two people in a romantic relationship who will often overlook certain flaws in each other and only see the attractive features. Both countries could benefit from Duterte’s willingness to ignore Beijing’s aggressive actions in the South China Sea while Xi is gaining some leverage by ignoring the international response to Duterte’s bloody and deadly war on drugs.
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Britain will commission a commemorative coin to mark the 90th anniversary of the final visit by Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi; a girl poses for a picture, August 15, 2019, with her face painted depicting a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi

Britain To Mark Gandhi's 1931 Visit With Commemorative Coin

Britain will commission a commemorative coin to mark the 90th anniversary of the final visit by Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi; a girl poses for a picture, August 15, 2019, with her face painted depicting a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi
The movement is spearheading two weeks of action across the globe

Climate Protesters Lay Siege To London City Airport

A climate protester glued himself to a plane and another held up a flight with a speech on global warming Thursday as campaigners tried to "occupy" a London airport near the capital's global financial hub.London police reported making more than 1,000 arrests over four days of protests by the group Extinction Rebellion, which have been staging a global effort stretching from Sydney to New York.Their biggest British action to date saw hundreds try to lay siege of London City Airport in protest at its management's expansion project.
A worker removes an NBA promotional banner from a building after China shut down NBA sponsorships and telecast plans following a tweet by an NBA club executive supporting pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong

China Fans Cheer NBA Stars As Free Speech Row Rages

The NBA's Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets faced off Thursday before adoring Chinese fans in an exhibition game overshadowed by a free-speech row ignited when an American basketball executive expressed support for Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement.Questions had swirled over whether the game, the first of two planned in China, would proceed after a tweet last Friday by Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey thrust the world's top basketball league into the centre of an escalating China-US dispute.
Some protesters were wearing business suits

Climate Protesters Try To 'Occupy' London City Airport

London police dragged away dozens of chanting and singing climate protesters on Thursday who tried to "occupy" an international airport serving the British capital's global financial hub.AFP reporters saw uniformed officers carry or escort around 100 Extinction Rebellion demonstrators from outside London City Airport. Police said they had made "a number" of arrests.A man in a brown business suit climbed over coils of barbed wire and onto the roof of the east London airport's entrance before coming back down and being led away by the police.
It would be the first time in the tournament's 32-year history that a game has been cancelled

Super Typhoon Forces Unprecedented Axing Of World Cup Games In Japan

Two Rugby World Cup matches were cancelled in an unprecedented move on Thursday as Japan braces for potential damage and disruption from powerful Super Typhoon Hagibis.Organisers took the "very difficult decision" to scrap the games on Saturday -- England v France and New Zealand v Italy -- on safety grounds as Hagibis takes direct aim at Tokyo.The storm covers an unusually wide area and is currently rated as "violent", the highest level on the Japanese scale, packing maximum gusts of up to 270 kilometres (168 miles).
Turkish troops keep up their build-up along the Syrian border though the night as the government promises a long-threatend assault on the Kurdish-ruled northeast will begin "soon"

Turkey Launches Ground Offensive Against Kurdish Forces In Syria

Turkey has launched a broad assault on Kurdish-controlled areas in northeastern Syria, with intensive bombardment followed by a ground offensive made possible by the withdrawal of US troops.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Wednesday the start of the attack on Twitter and soon after jets and artillery targeted Kurdish positions along the full width of the border, sending thousands of civilians fleeing their homes.

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