World News: 27 June 2023

New images show Chinese spy balloons over Asia
China’s spy balloon scandal is back in the news. Japan and Taiwan have also been victims of the Chinese spy balloon programme, with Tokyo even confirming that such balloons have flown over its territory in the past and it plans to shoot them down in the future.

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Germany saw 2,480 antisemitic incidents in 2022, monitoring group says
Incidents can take place anywhere from work to home, to public transport, in the supermarket or at a concert. Such “everyday” antisemitic incidents have diverse political backgrounds and often include trivialization of the Holocaust, in which Germany's Nazis and their henchmen murdered 6 million European Jews.

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More than 100 U.S. political leaders have ancestors who were slaveholders
At least 8% of Democrats & 28% of Republicans. It includes Mitch McConnell,Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton, James Lankford, Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth, Jeanne Shaheen & MaggieHassan. Joe Biden and every living former U.S. president except Donald Trump are direct descendants of slaveholders: Jimmy Carter, George Bush, Bill Clinton & Barack Obama.

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World forests continue to shrink despite COP26 pledge, report says
In 2022, the planet lost an area of tropical rainforest the size of Switzerland or the Netherlands.
The country hardest hit is Brazil, with an area destroyed accounting for 43% of global losses, ahead of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (13%) and Bolivia (9%).

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Bolivia's creaking big state model rings warning bell in South America
Bolivia’s dwindling reserves and exports highlight a common vulnerability in Latin America, where most economies are highly reliant on commodities that are sensitive to see-sawing global prices, weather events and the political mood.

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Malaysia close to nullifying $15 billion arbitration award after Hague "victory"
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said Malaysia is getting closer to completely nullifying the "sham and abusive" final award to a group claiming they are the Sulu Sultanate's heirs.

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