🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israeli forces tear up a picture of killed journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during a raid on Al Jazeera's office in the center of Ramallah

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UK defunds Confucius Institutes in latest example of Western anti-China freakout

The UK government has announced it is pulling funding from Chinese-backed Confucius Institutes across the country in the latest manifestation of anti-China anxiety across the Western world.

“Like any international body operating in the UK, Confucius Institutes need to operate transparently and within the law, and with a full commitment to our values,” read a statement from a spokesperson for Keir Starmer’s Labour government that asserted “challenges” posed by Beijing.

Confucius Institutes are Chinese government-backed institutions on international college campuses that dedicate themselves to promoting Chinese culture and supporting the teaching of the Chinese language.

A report from the UK Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee last year alleged that Confucius Institutes are “Trojan horses” for Chinese soft power and propaganda. Beijing likens the program to similar Western government–backed organizations dedicated to promoting culture and language abroad, such as the UK’s British Council, Germany’s Goethe-Institut and France’s Alliance Française.

A similar controversy over Confucius Institutes has simmered in the United States over the last several years. The US government alleged in 2019 the organizations exercised “undue influence;” the number of Confucius Institutes on US college and university campuses subsequently plummeted from 100 to just five.

The attacks on the program have contributed to a shortage of Chinese language teachers in the United States, threatening cultural ties between the two countries and putting the future of diplomacy between Washington and Beijing in doubt. The United States’ Chinese language interpreter was roundly mocked online after making several major mistakes during a tense US-China summit in Alaska in 2021.

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Israel continues crack down on journalists with Al Jazeera raid in West Bank

The Israeli government outraged press freedom advocates when it occupied and forcibly shuttered news broadcaster Al Jazeera’s headquarters in the West Bank, representing the latest escalation of violence in the occupied territory that has often gone overlooked amid the country’s campaign in Gaza.

“Israel said it carried out Saturday’s raid on Al Jazeera’s bureau in the West Bank after concluding that the news network’s offices there were ‘being used to incite terror,’” reported Bloomberg. “An ‘up-to-date intelligence assessment’ determined that ‘the channel’s broadcasts endanger the security and public order,’ the Israel Defense Forces said.”

Staffers at the Ramallah bureau broadcast the initial moments live of the tense confrontation with heavily armed Israeli forces, who ejected workers, confiscated cameras and other equipment and declared the office closed for 45 days.

“Al Jazeera rejects the draconian actions and the unfounded allegations presented by Israeli authorities to justify these illegal raids,” said Al Jazeera in a statement posted to X.

The move comes after the Israeli Knesset voted to close Al Jazeera’s offices in Israel four months ago, raiding the news outlet’s bureaus in Nazareth and East Jerusalem. Legislation passed in May provided Israeli authorities with significant latitude to shut down news outlets accused of threatening Israeli national security.

The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists also slammed the move, saying it was “deeply alarmed” by the forced closure of the Ramallah office.

Al Jazeera denounced the closure of the Ramallah bureau, noting that it lies within territory under the sovereign control of Palestinian authorities under international law. Israel has illegally occupied Gaza and the West Bank since 1967, also seizing control of Syria’s Golan Heights and annexing Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and portions of southern Lebanon until forced to surrender the territory after international pressure.

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🇷🇺 Russian military demonstrated the use of ISDM "Agriculture" on the border of Kursk and Sumy regions.

️The high-mobility system "Agriculture" is designed for rapid deployment of minefields in threatened areas, in areas of possible advance of enemy troops.

️The Russian installation "Agriculture" is a 50-barrel multiple launch rocket system with special 122-mm rockets.

️Data preparation for shooting is automated. The range of the new system is five to 15 kilometers.

The missiles are located in transport and launch containers.

To reload the installation, the system includes a TMZ on a KamAZ chassis (8x8).

🇩🇪 "Schroeder claims that 'more influential circles' behind Zelensky have blocked peace" - Die Welt:

Former German Chancellor Schroeder advised the West to read history textbooks.

"Schroeder reminded that neither Napoleon nor Hitler managed to defeat Russia. According to him, the majority of Russians support their president Putin. The former chancellor stated that the West does not pay attention to Russia's historically justified interests in the field of security. Schroeder notes that the EU should link support for Ukraine to demands for Kiev to present realistic scenarios for achieving peace. 'In any case, this cannot be resolved by military means. Compromises will be needed,' he concluded."

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Russian Defense Ministry publishes footage of the destruction of military equipment and manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by airborne units from the "North" group of forces during the liquidation of an enemy breakthrough attempt in the border area of ​​the Kursk region

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