(2023-06-13). Poland Urges NATO Response to Russia Sending Nukes to Belarus. news.antiwar.com Polish President Andrzej Duda said Monday that NATO must respond to Russia deploying nuclear weapons to Belarus. "I absolutely believe that such a situation demands an unequivocal response from NATO," Duda said at a joint press conference in Paris with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, according to Bloomberg. Duda didn't specify …
(2023-06-13). Ukrainian military lost most of its US-made M2 Bradley AFVs in counterattack. infobrics.org Russian forces repulse Ukrainian counterattack in Zaporozhye.
(2023-06-13). Russian Missiles Target Enemy's Deep Rear Areas, Ukraine Confirms Losses. southfront.org 
On the night of June 13, Russian forces launched another wave of missile and UAV strikes on the military facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) throughout the country. The night attack was assessed as the largest one since the beginning of the Ukrainian offensive. | According to the estimates of the Ukrainian General Staff, 14 Russian cruise missiles were launched. Russian kamikaze UAVs were also used to strike at the Ukrainian military facilities in different regions.
(2023-06-13). Ukrainian Offensive Stalled On Zaporozhie Frontlines. southfront.org 
According to preliminary reports from the front, the Russian military managed to achieve new gains on the Zaporozhie front lines. Kiev's military officials were too quick to declare control of the settlements in the south of the country. Amid the heavy battles, the front lines are unstable and various villages are often coming from control of one side to another. | On the morning of June 13, the area of Velikaya Novoselka remains the main battlefield of the Ukrainian offensive, while other…
(2023-06-13). Mick Wallace calls out the hypocrisy of EU policy. youtube.com 
"The European Court of Auditors' report just before the war, wrote off Ukraine as one of the most corrupt countries in Europe." Irish MEP Mick Wallace calling out the hypocrisy of EU policy towards Ukraine in comparison to Georgia. Support independent watchdog journalism! www.patreon.com/MintPressNews…
(2023-06-13). Patrick Lawrence: The Rape of Lady Justice. scheerpost.com 
This is an open-and-shut case of the judiciary being misused to keep Trump out of the political process. Unlike during the Russiagate years, liberal authoritarians know they are operating in broad daylight this time.
(2023-06-13). Ukrainian nationalists demand Russian and Belarusian pianists be barred from Australian music competition. wsws.org Calls for the banning of the classical musicians expose the bogus claims that the US-led NATO war against Russia is a "human rights" endeavour and reveal its anti-democratic, chauvinist and reactionary character.
(2023-06-13). Pakistan makes first import of Russian crude oil with Chinese currency. ecns.cn Pakistan paid for its first government-to-government import of Russian crude oil with Chinese currency, the country's petroleum minister said on Monday.
(2023-06-13). NATO launches massive war game targeting Russia. wsws.org On Monday, NATO launched the largest airborne war game in the alliance's history, with hundreds of aircraft fighting a simulated war with Russia.
(2023-06-13). Shift in Geopolitical Relations: Russia's Roadmap to Nigeria and Africa. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-13). Legal Brief Filed to Bar Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett from Canada. socialistproject.ca 
Lawyers have filed a complaint on behalf of a Palestinian-Canadian and four Canadian organizations seeking to have the government declare former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett inadmissible to Canada before he is set to speak in Toronto on June 14. As lawyers Shane Martinez and Nicholas Pope have laid out in the complaint, Bennett should be denied entry to Canada pursuant to sections 35(1)(a) and (b) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. | As put forth in the complaint filed on Tuesday, May 29th, 2023, The federal government has "domestic and international legal obligations to excl…
(2023-06-13). Ministry issues rebuke to U.S. measure targeting Xinjiang enterprises. ecns.cn China firmly opposes the United States incorporating two Chinese enterprises and their subsidiaries into the entity list of the so-called "Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act" on the unfounded grounds of human rights violations.
(2023-06-13). Labour's new bankroller is Israel lobbyist, South African apartheid profiteer. mronline.org 
The UK Labour Party's latest corporate mega-donor is a pro-Israel businessperson whose firm profiteered from South African apartheid.
(2023-06-13). Israeli military used young women to sell their apartheid project. youtube.com 
The Israeli military has used young women to sell their apartheid project and hypersexualize life in the military to recruit for longer than the Pentagon. Alan MacLeod's latest investigation explores that history to find the roots of the Pentagon's newest recruitment strategies as it seeks to attract Gen Z. Watch the full interview via our …
(2023-06-13). Human Rights Defenders Slam Israel's Planned West Bank Settlement Expansion. truthout.org Human rights defenders on Monday blasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right apartheid government after it reportedly informed the Biden administration of plans to build thousands of new Jewish-only settler homes in the illegally occupied West Bank of Palestine. Three Israeli and U.S. officials told Axios that Israel will announce later this month its intention to build at least… |
(2023-06-13). Did Drake go on a Birthright Israel trip?! youtube.com 
Did Drake go on a Birthright Israel trip to occupied Palestine and Syria? Footage from a Saturday Night Live performance by the rapper Drake in 2014 has emerged in which he states that he took part in the controversial Birthright Israel programme. Support independent watchdog journalism! www.patreon.com/MintPressNews…
(2023-06-13). Exporting Occupation: Israeli Business Is Booming In Occupied Western Sahara. popularresistance.org On December 22, 2020, Israel and Morocco officially normalized relations after former President Donald Trump's administration declared occupied Western Sahara as Moroccan. In the years following, Israeli companies have boosted their business involvement in Western Sahara, suggesting the pair's cooperation is fueling each other's land theft. | In 1975, Morocco annexed part of Western Sahara — a region indigenous to the Sahrawi people — and its entirety in 1979. Few have accepted these actions: today, 82 countries recognize Western Sahara's independence, while only the United States recognizes Moroccan…
(2023-06-13). China and Palestine: No To 'Piecemeal Crisis Management'. scheerpost.com 
By Ramzy Baroud / CounterPunch Remarks by China's United Nations Ambassador, Geng Shuang, on the situation in Occupied Palestine on May 24 were impeccable, in terms of their consistency with international law. Compared to the United States' position, which perceives the UN, and particularly the Security Council, as a battleground to defend Israeli interests, the Chinese political …
(2023-06-13). Iranian president visits Latin American countries in an attempt to strengthen multipolar world order. peoplesdispatch.org Ebrahim Raisi is on a five-day state visit to Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua — Latin American countries that have been similarly affected by stringent US sanctions and hegemonic politics…
(2023-06-13). Israeli State And Lyndon B Johnson Deliberately Murdered 34 US Sailors. popularresistance.org On June 8, 1967, Israeli air and naval forces—with covered over insignia—fired rockets, torpedoes and napalm on a U.S. spy ship, the USS Liberty, in the Mediterranean Sea, killing 34 Americans and injuring 174 more. A secret congressional hearing revealed that two of the pilots were Americans—ex-Navy fliers.[1] | A survivor stated that the ship's deck afterwards looked "like the floor of a slaughterhouse, with pieces of flesh, bone, hair, various organs and everything else…held in place by dried blood." | In 2021, the CIA released three one-page information reports from June and October 1967,…
(2023-06-13). US Tells Another Bedtime Story To Scare Away Normal Relations With China and Cuba. scheerpost.com 
(2023-06-13). HMPV outbreak in U.S. has limited impact on China: Chinese CDC. ecns.cn The early outbreak of human metapneumovirus (HMPV), a respiratory virus, in the United States has a limited impact on China, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday.
(2023-06-13). Doctors caution using diabetes drug for weight loss. ecns.cn Doctors have warned about the health risks of the diabetes medicine Ozempic as some young people in China are taking it to lose weight without professional guidance.
(2023-06-13). Fugitive returns to China, turns herself in. ecns.cn Guo Jiefang, one of 100 fugitives on the Interpol red notice, voluntarily returned to China and turned herself in on Saturday.
(2023-06-13). Panda center squashes abuse rumors. ecns.cn The China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda released a statement on Saturday declaring rumors surrounding the beating of pandas by keepers baseless, after the topic trended on Chinese social media platforms.
(2023-06-13). Large-scale subsidies benefit students in need. ecns.cn China has subsidized over 20 million college students from families with financial problems by granting them soft loans totaling over 400 billion yuan ($56 billion).
(2023-06-13). Arab states and China to upgrade relations. ecns.cn Exchanges between the Arab states and China are set to get an upgrade after the 10th Arab-China Business Conference in Riyadh saw the signing of 30 investment agreements worth over $10 billion in several sectors on Sunday.
(2023-06-13). China stands ready to work with New Zealand to maintain high-level exchanges: FM spokesperson. ecns.cn China stands ready to work with New Zealand to maintain high-level exchanges, enhance mutual trust and deepen practical cooperation, so as to achieve greater progress in bilateral relations and bring more benefit to the two peoples, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Monday.
(2023-06-13). China-Arab cooperation deepens at key biz conference. ecns.cn China and Arab countries are swiftly expanding economic and trade cooperation in all fields, as more than 3,500 Chinese and Arab officials and business representatives gathered in Riyadh.
(2023-06-13). The Heat: China-Honduras Relations. america.cgtn.com 
China and Honduras strengthen bilateral relations as the Honduran President visits Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with Honduran President Xiomara Castro on Monday. Castro is the first Honduran president to visit Beijing since the two nations established diplomatic ties back in March. Both …
(2023-06-13). President Maduro Receives Iran's Ebrahim Raisi in Caracas. orinocotribune.com 
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro received Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi with state honors at Miraflores Palace in Caracas. | With the highest military honors and a mounted escort from the Presidential Honor Guard hussars, Raisi arrived on Monday, June 12, at Miraflores Palace. He was welcomed with a handshake from President Maduro, who was waiting for Raisi accompanied by several members of the Venezuelan cabinet. | Earlier, President Raisi laid flowers before Liberator Simón Bolívar's tomb in the National Pantheon, where he signed the guest book of prominent figures and world dignitaries. | Venezuela is the…
(2023-06-13). The Persian Gulf: A failure of US policy. journal-neo.org 
Washington, true to its fanatical mania for acting as the world's policeman, has announced that it is sending more troops to the Persian Gulf in response to Iran's lawful seizure of tankers that were passing through the strategic Strait of Hormuz. As the White House Press secretary John Kirby put it in a peremptory briefing: "The […] | –°–æ–æ–±—â–µ–Ω–∏–µ
(2023-06-13). More information that Australia's war crimes in Afghanistan were covered up. wsws.org In one incident, an elderly imam was allegedly shot and killed, despite being unarmed and in detention. The military command and the government defended the conduct of the soldiers involved.
(2023-06-13). Jonno Sriranganathan: 'Aim for reforms that open up space for deeper radical change'. greenleft.org.au Jonathan Sriranganathan reflects on his time in a wide ranging interview with Alex Banbridge just before stepping down as Gabba Ward councillor in the Brisbane City Council.
(2023-06-13). Israeli Soldiers Shoot Dead Two-Year-Old Palestinian. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-13). Israeli authorities demolish five Bedouin homes in Al-Naqab desert. peoplesdispatch.org According to locals, the demolition efforts have been going on since February. Israeli authorities had served the home owners with eviction notices and had been pressuring them to vacate their homes and relocate in order to illegally take over the land…
(2023-06-13). Canada's Scotiabank Is Funding Israeli War Crimes. orinocotribune.com By Marion Kawas — Jun 10, 2023 | Activists in Canada are launching a national campaign to demand that Scotiabank immediately divest from Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems. | On June 3 in Vancouver Canada, Palestine solidarity activists held a Canadian BDS Coal…
(2023-06-13). State of Israel and Lyndon B Johnson Deliberately Murdered 34 American Sailors in 1967, Fabricated Massive Cover-Up Still in Effect After 55 Years. covertactionmagazine.com
(2023-06-13). Palestinians Warn Against Israeli Proposal to Divide Al-Aqsa Compound. scheerpost.com 
A draft bill proposed by one of the legislators of the ruling Likud party calls for the al-Aqsa mosque compound to be divided into two parts, with illegal settlers having exclusive access to the majority of the compound.
(2023-06-13). China resalta gran momento de las relaciones con Honduras. telesurtv.net El jefe de Estado chino celebró también esta, la primera visita de un mandatario hondureños a su nación, y afirmó que así se abre una nueva etapa para las relaciones entre ambos países.
(2023-06-13). Presidente de Venezuela sostiene encuentro con su homólogo de Irán. telesurtv.net Esta es la primera visita que realiza el mandatario iraní a Latinoamérica desde que asumió el cargo en agosto de 2021.
(2023-06-13). Palestina condena plan de asentamientos ilegales de Israel. telesurtv.net El Ministerio palestino puntualizó que "ve claramente las medidas unilaterales ilegales de Israel para perpetuar el colonialismo".
(2023-06-13). Presidente de Irán llega a Venezuela para iniciar gira por Latinoamérica. telesurtv.net El mandatario persa se reunirá con su par venezolano, Nicolás Maduro, con quien tiene previsto firmar varios acuerdos bilaterales.
(2023-06-13). Estudio revela aumento de arsenal nuclear operativo en el orbe. telesurtv.net El 90 por ciento de las armas nucleares activas en el mundo son pertenecientes a Estados Unidos y Rusia.