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Wednesday 30 September 2020
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Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“The religious freedom and other rights of people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang, including the Uighurs, are fully protected. There has [sic] never been any so-called detention camps in Xinjiang.”
Read more...The Australian Strategic Policy Institute found new, extensive evidence of detention centers. Firsthand accounts show Uighurs are forcibly detained and abused. -
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Maria Zakharova
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman
"Never, neither on the territory of the Soviet Union nor in the times of the Soviet Union, nor in the times of the Russian Federation nor on the territory of the Russian Federation, was there research that would have had either the direct [name] or the codename Novichok.”
Read more...Novichok was developed and produced in the Soviet Union. Russia has claimed it destroyed its stock of Novichok. -
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TASS
Russian state news agency
“Almost 30 protest activities took place in Belarus on Sunday, the overall number of protesters did not exceed 22,000, Interior Ministry Spokesperson Olga Chemodanova said in a statement on Telegram.”
Read more...An estimated 150,000 marched in Minsk for Sunday’s “March of Heroes.” Multiple media outlets including Russia's Interfax cited this estimate. -
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Gen. Hamilton Mourao
vice president of Brazil
"Brazil is the country that most preserves its native forests in the world. That's the truth. We take care!”
Read more...National and international data show fires in the Amazon rainforest are setting records, flatly contradicting claims promoted by Bolsonaro government officials. -
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Belta
Belarusian state news agency
“The members of the so-called coordination council, Anton Rodnenkov, Ivan Kravtsov and Maria Kolesnikova, tried to leave the territory of Belarus.”
Read more...The opposition leaders maintain they were forcibly taken to the Ukraine border. Kolesnikova had been abducted off the street the previous day. -
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Mikhail Aleksandrov
Center for Military Policy Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations
“[B]ut the Americans themselves are to blame, as they are bullying Russia and spoiling for a fight.”
Read more...Russia’s recent harassment of U.S. fishing boats in the Bering Sea is only the latest example of an uptick in military confrontations between the superpowers. -
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Yuri Shvytkin
Member of Russia's State Duma
"Let's proceed from the fact that we are not engaged in the manufacture of similar kinds of chemical substances on our territory. As far as there is information, such weapons, such chemical toxic substances are available on the territory of Georgia from the United States, in the laboratory, and in the United States of America."
Read more...The U.S. is destroying its stockpile of chemical weapons while Russia reportedly stockpiled the nerve agent for a decade. Georgia does not produce it. -
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Leonid Rink
Former director of the lab that developed Novichok
"There would be convulsions and so on. Completely different symptoms."
Read more...The nerve agent Novichok sickened but did not kill ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in 2018, either. Their symptoms were like Alexey Navalny’s. -
![Aleksandr Lukashenko]()
Aleksandr Lukashenko
President of Belarus
“There were American F-16s near Berlin, well, let them stand there. No, they moved them here – 15-20 minutes flying time to our territory. … It is not clear what they were carrying. Maybe nuclear weapons."
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![Hakim Hussein Kheirandish]()
Hakim Hussein Kheirandish
Practitioner of Iranian traditional Islamic medicine
“Eating salt frequently protects from corona infection better than wearing a mask.”
Read more...Several research trials are studying the effect of salt and salt-based solutions against COVID-19. So far, none suggests eating salt instead of wearing a mask. -
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Dmitry Peskov
Kremlin press secretary
We do not understand why our German colleagues are in such a hurry to use the word 'poisoning' and so on. The substance must be found first, to understand what caused this condition. There must be grounds for investigation. For now, we are seeing a comatose patient."
Read more...The hospital in Berlin said its diagnosis is based on extensive tests indicating that Alexey Navalny has been poisoned. The fact that someone is in a coma does not prevent an investigation from being launched. -
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Jeon Kwang-Hun
pastor at Sarang Jeil Church
“Our church took every preventive measure, but the (Moon) administration spread the coronavirus to prevent me from attending this rally.”
Read more...There is no evidence to suggest the Moon administration had a hand in spreading the virus among churchgoers – if anything, it has tried to contain the sickness.
