🇺🇸❌🇭🇰 — 📰 Washington Post: Biden, testing Xi, will bar Hong Kong’s leader from economic summit
— "The White House has decided it will bar Hong Kong’s top government official from attending a major economic summit in the United States this fall, according to three U.S. officials familiar with the matter, in the latest test of President Biden’s bid to reset relations with China.

Chief Executive John Lee, along with 10 other Hong Kong and Chinese officials, was sanctioned by Washington in 2020 after implementing a national security law, imposed by Beijing, that enabled the targeting of pro-democracy leaders, tarnished the reputation of the courts and earned international condemnation as leaders sought to silence dissent.

Lee, then Hong Kong’s security chief, was elevated last year to chief executive, handpicked by Beijing to continue what critics say is a broader campaign of repression in the once-semiautonomous city. He has helped execute Beijing’s reimagining of the territory, where institutions from schools to the media now operate under new red lines that have eroded freedoms."

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🇸🇦❌🇩🇰 — Royal Saudi Foreign Ministry: The Kingdom handed over to the Chargé d’Affaires of the Danish Embassy a protest note calling for an end to actions that violate international laws and provocative actions against Islam

🇫🇷❌🇳🇪 — French President Macron: We condemn in the strongest terms Niger's dangerous coup against the region

🇷🇺☦️📹 — 🇷🇺 RIA Novosti: Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill in Moscow led a procession with the relics of Prince Vladimir.

Today marks the 1035th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'.

https://t.me/rian_ru/210400

🇷🇺🤝🌍 — 📰 Reuters quoting the Russian Foreign Ministry: 90% of issues related to the debts of African countries to Russia have been settled