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Share Cambodian authorities falsely claim environmental activists justly convicted “Their sentencing was based on sufficient facts and full legality, and that process was established through a clear investigation by authorities, which led to their conviction.” Human rights defenders and international agencies have broadly condemned a Cambodian court’s decision to sentence 10 environmental activists to six and eight years in prison for “plotting” against the state and/or lèse-majesté (defaming...

On July 16, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov chaired a United Nations Security Council meeting on multilateral cooperation. Speaking before the 15-member Council, which Russia presides over during the month of July, Lavrov repeated the Kremlin’s invalid talking points trying to justify a decade-long campaign of Russian aggression that has killed scores of civilians and devastated Ukraine.

In China and Iran, state media used Trump assassination attempt to accuse West of neglecting Gaza crisis. In China and Iran, state media used Trump assassination attempt to accuse West of neglecting Gaza crisis.

The U.S. Department of State accused Rwanda and Uganda of illegally extracting minerals, including gold and tantalum, from Congo in a July 8 statement. "These minerals directly or indirectly benefit armed groups and move out of the country through Rwanda and to Uganda before moving to major refining and processing countries," the U.S. said. Uganda denied involvement, saying it is cooperating closely with Congolese government forces in fighting the armed groups.

Top Russian news agencies and papers featured headlines on July 15 claiming a Russian woman saved former President Donald Trump during the July 13 assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. Scores of Russian media outlets reported that the female agent of the U.S. Secret Service, who appeared in the footage shielding Trump and escorting him to safety, was a Russian karate and martial arts athlete by the name of Irina S.

State-run media in authoritarian countries have seized on the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump to highlight increased polarization in the United States and redirect attention to unrelated foreign policy issues. One propaganda narrative spread by Iranian state media and social media users is the claim that Western media outlets and officials have excessively focused on the July 13 attack on Donald Trump, while ignoring the plight of Palestinians in Gaza.

The United States Department of Justice said it disrupted a Russian government bot farm of nearly a thousand X accounts that spread AI-generated pro-Kremlin and anti-U.S. disinformation. The operation, orchestrated by two Russian government agencies — the Federal Security Service (FSB) and the RT news network — utilized two domain names, “mlrtr.com” and “otanmail.com,” registered with a U.S.-based provider, along with 968 X accounts.

On July 15, Kenyan President William Ruto accused the U.S. NGO, Ford Foundation, which provides grants to human rights, press freedom, and anti-corruption initiatives and groups in Kenya, of sponsoring the nationwide protests prompted by the taxation bill. The bill would impose unaffordable tax rises on ordinary citizens and businesses already burdened by the high cost of living. The demonstrations led by Generation Z Kenyans, a demographic cohort of educated unemployed youth, began on June 18.

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