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Downtown Hong Kong waterfront. Photo by 蓝茶 Bluetea on Pexels, used under Pexels licence. This post first appeared in The Hong Konger on July 2, 2024. The Hong Konger is an independent global English-language platform that explores Hong Kong identity and the discourse of the diaspora through rich and diverse content about society, politics, business, culture and lifestyle. This edited version is being republished on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement. “Exile is a heavy word,” I told my friend when she asked if I considered myself an exile. She urged me not to label myself as su...
Global Voices
Illustration by Minority Africa, used with permission. This story, which has sensitive content, was written by Shuimo Trust and Nkengafack Eucharia, and originally published by Minority Africa on July 28, 2024. An abridged version is republished below as part of a content-sharing agreement. It was a deceptively sunny Monday in Cameroon’s embattled northwest region. The streets lay eerily silent — shops shuttered, taxis absent. It was no ordinary day off but a “ghost town” enforced by Anglophone separatists in their war against the Francophone-dominated government. Into this tense calm stepped ...
Global Voices
The non-profit organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says it rescued 73 people after carrying out two rescue operations at sea off the Libyan coast. On Friday night, 47 people were taken from a fiberglass boat that was in difficulty, and on Saturday morning, another 26 people were rescued from a wooden boat. All were safely brought aboard onto the Geo Barents rescue ship, a vessel operated by MSF, which is now on the way to its assigned port of Ravenna, Italy. The MSF rescue team says that two people refused help on Friday and decided to stay on the fibreglass boat. They were later assist...
Euronews (English)
A girl on the march on Freedom Day of Belarus 2023 in Warsaw. Photo by Andrew Keymaster on Unsplash. On Thursday August 1, there was a prisoner exchange between Russia and several Western countries. According to media reports, 24 people were involved, including the pardoned German, Rico Krieger, in Belarus. However, none of the other Belarusian political prisoners were part of the exchange. A lot of Belarusian social media users expressed feelings of both sadness and loss of hope, with one saying, “We were so hoping that – what if – Masha too […] But there was no one to break the birch tree.” ...
Global Voices
More than half of Americans believe the First Amendment can go too far in the rights it guarantees, according to a new survey from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a First Amendment–focused nonprofit. The survey, released on Thursday, asked 1,000 American adults a range of questions about the First Amendment, free speech, and the security of those rights. Fifty-three percent of respondents agreed with the statement "The First Amendment goes too far in the rights it guarantees" to at least some degree, with 28 percent reporting that it "mostly" or "completely" describ...
Reason
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was released from Russian captivity on Thursday as part of the largest prisoner swap between Russia and Western nations in decades. Gershkovich had been imprisoned for nearly 500 days and was recently sentenced to 16 years in a penal colony. Gershkovich was arrested in March 2023 while on assignment in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Russian authorities claimed he was obtaining information for the CIA, though the allegations against Gershkovich are widely assumed to be false and have been denied strenuously by the Journal. Gershkovich was released around 11...
Reason
Extreme heat is killing more than 175,000 people a year in Europe, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared today. Globally, there have been around 489,000 heat-related deaths each year between 2000 and 2019, with people paying the “ultimate price” for climate inaction. Europe is the fastest warming continent on Earth, accounting for the large proportion of global deaths. The United Nations agency’s dire assessment comes days after a call to action on extreme heat from UN Secretary-General António Guterres. “Billions of people are facing an extreme heat epidemic - wilting under increas...
Euronews (English)
By Hans Nicholas Jong JAKARTA — The Indonesian government has ordered a palm oil company to pay 1 billion rupiah ($61,000) in fines for shortchanging villagers by not sufficiently paying them according to a profit-sharing agreement. The company in question, PT Hardaya Inti Plantations (HIP), has been embroiled in conflicts with villagers in its concession on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi for years. The villagers in Buol district, grouped under a farmer cooperative called Amanah, said they hadn’t been paid for harvests the company reaped from their land going back to 2018, or even earlier i...
Mongabay
Liza Dmitrieva, a four-year-old girl with Down’s syndrome, was walking with her mother to a speech therapy appointment in the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia on July 14, 2022. As her mother filmed her playfully pushing her stroller, she didn’t know that those were to be the last moments of Liza’s life. Minutes later, Russian missiles struck the city, killing Liza and severely injuring her mother. The attack killed a total of 29 people and injured over 200 more. Such attacks have been a daily reality across Ukraine for the last two-and-a-half years, killing an average of over 40 civilians p...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Liza Dmitrieva, a four-year-old girl with Down’s syndrome, was walking with her mother to a speech therapy appointment in the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia on July 14, 2022. As her mother filmed her playfully pushing her stroller, she didn’t know that those were to be the last moments of Liza’s life. Minutes later, Russian missiles struck the city, killing Liza and severely injuring her mother. The attack killed a total of 29 people and injured over 200 more. Such attacks have been a daily reality across Ukraine for the last two-and-a-half years, killing an average of over 40 civilians p...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
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