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Title: "China, Belarus start joint military drills near Polish border"
Quote: "The manoeuvres, codenamed Falcon Assault, will go until July 19 and are taking place at a training ground near the city of Brest, the ministry said. Brest, in southwest Belarus, lies on the border with Poland.
Leaders of NATO's 32 member countries meet on Tuesday in Washington for a summit where further military and financial support for Ukraine will be high on the agenda."
Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/china...ilitary-drills-near-polish-border-2024-07-09/
Title: "Belarus recognizes potential of SCO, committed to making the organization's voice loude"
Quote: "After Belarus officially joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), becoming the 10th member state, Belarusian Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov expressed "gratitude" for the comprehensive support provided to Belarus on the path to full membership in the organization in Beijing on Saturday."
Source:
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202407/1315568.shtml
What is SCO: "The
Shanghai
Cooperation
Organisation (
SCO) is a Eurasian political, economic, international security and
defence organization established by China and Russia in 2001."
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation
Title: "Japan, Philippines sign defence pact with eyes on China"
Quote: "Japan and the Philippines have signed a defence pact allowing the deployment of troops on each other’s soil amid shared concerns over China’s growing military power."
Source:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/8/japan-philippines-sign-defence-pact-with-eyes-on-china
And finally
Some more old news from the WHO (2019), shame nobody was listening back then:
Title: "Preparing for the worst: a rapidly spreading, lethal respiratory pathogen pandemic"
Quote: "In addition to a greater risk of pandemics from natural pathogens, scientific developments allow for disease-causing microorganisms to be engineered or recreated in laboratories. Should countries, terrorist groups, or scientifically advanced individuals create or obtain and then use biological weapons that have the characteristics of a novel, high-impact respiratory pathogen, the consequences could be as severe as, or even greater, than those of a natural epidemic, as could an accidental release of epidemic-prone microorganisms."
Source:
https://www.gpmb.org/reports/m/item/2019-a-world-at-risk
PDF:
https://www.gpmb.org/docs/libraries...eport-en.pdf?sfvrsn=d1c9143c_30&download=true