Cops probe provocation incident during Muda event in Muar

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Chinese influencers: frontier of Beijing’s propaganda campaign

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Boston University’s Covid virus research: It’s a LESS lethal strain

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Yuriy Gudymenko @y_gudymenko, a Junior Sergeant (Corporal) in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, to the Belarusian Armed Forces: If you step on our land, you will die

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Yuriy Gudymenko @y_gudymenko

Ukrainian politician. Co-founder, Political Council Member of the Demokratychna Sokyra party. Junior Sergeant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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My name is Yuriy Gudymenko. I am a Junior Sergeant (Corporal) in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. I want to appeal to each and every serviceman of the Belarusian Armed Forces. My address can be accessed in Russian and Belarusian in the Ukrainian media and on my FB page.

I am not going to lecture you. I don’t want to talk about brotherly nations, nor do I want to remind you of the fact that haven’t ever fought against each other. I will be straightforward and simple. If you step on our land — you will die. 2/12

I don’t know how exactly each of your deaths are going to occur. Maybe you’ll die like that Russian paratrooper on whom I’ve tripped in Irpin, early spring of this year, while placing mines. 3/12

I remember him, because I haven’t seen dead Russian soldiers as close before, not looking into binoculars or a scope. He was fully burnt, his uniform baked together with his blackened skin, and one of his legs was eaten to the bone by dogs. 4/12

Maybe, you’ll die exactly like him, betrayed by your command and comrades. You also may get obliterated by our mines. We have a lot of them, enough for all of you. It’s a quick death — if it’s gonna be an AT mine, that is. 5/12

An anti-personnel mine will most likely leave you bleeding out, unable to survive without modern medical kits and evac systems. Maybe, your truck will get destroyed by a HIMARS rocket, and you’ll be lucky to die with scattered legs and in horrible pain. 6/12

Maybe, your tank will get destroyed by a Stugna or a Javelin, and you’ll burn alive, just like hundreds of Russian tank crews before you. Though you’ll be counted as missing for a long time, because ammo detonation will certainly turn you into tiny flesh-bone dust. 7/12

A trophy Solntsepyok HFS might as well work out a fire mission on you. Or, maybe, a Grad MLRS. We will watch the video of your death, filmed from a drone, and share it with our friends. However it will occur – you are going to die. 8/12

Over 60 thousand Russian soldiers could have confirmed my words. But they can’t. There’s bad reception in hell. You haven’t seen fighting for decades. We’re fighting since 2014. Your weapons are old and obsolete. Our weapons are brand new, made by NATO. 9/12

You’re being pushed into a senseless war on foreign soil, while we’re defending what’s ours. We own the initiative, and your Russian allies are retreating month after month. You don’t have a single chance. You will die here, near a village you’ve never heard of before. 10/12

I have some Belarusian blood in me. Maybe, this causes me to warn you, instead of gloatingly observing your deaths. If you’ll arrive to Ukraine, you will die. Surrendering is your only way to survive and return home. If you don’t do that, you will most certainly die. 11/12

Junior Sergeant Gudymenko ends his report. 12/12.

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Russian detainees expose Moscow police officer who tortured them as Ivan Ryabov: He was the ‘man in black’

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Mariam Mokhtar: Message for Peja: Who’s the Frog and Traitor?

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From China to U.S., families navigate laws and COVID rules for surrogacy births : NPR

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Chinese families navigate a maze of laws and COVID rules to have babies in the U.S.

October 22, 20226:00 AM ET

Emily Feng at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., March 19, 2019. (photo by Allison Shelley)

Emily Feng

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, California — Inside a three-story pastel mansion in this quiet suburb south of Los Angeles, Auntie Wang cradles a 2-week-old baby girl named Echo.

“The more time you spend with her, the more she is attached to you,” says Auntie Wang, who moved to the United States seven years ago from China. “You hold her, play with her, engage with her and look, she responds to you.”
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The agency she works for, called Fat Daddy, specializes in these services for clients in China — where providingsurrogacy is effectively prohibited.

The company is one part of a well-established industry centered in California that also includes the controversialservice of bringing Chinese mothers to the U.S. to give birth to their children, known as “birth tourism.”

But for nearly three years, the whole industry has been upended by the coronavirus pandemic and China’s travel restrictions, which have been among the tightest in the world. In 2020, Beijing completely shut the country’s border to contain COVID-19 and has never fully reopened them.

That has meant Chinese parents cannot fly to the U.S. to meet or vet their surrogate in person. Instead, clients have had to send their reproductive samples — eggs, sperm or both — via special delivery to the U.S. so the surrogacy can take place.
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For Chinese parents with the financial means, a popular option remains the U.S., where surrogacy is legal in most states.

“America has everything. America is a good country — as long as you know what you want,” says one Chinese birth tourism agent based in California. He does not want to give his name because China bans providing such services.”Having children in the U.S. will always bring advantages, because America is a country for immigrants.”

It is difficult to know how many Chinese couples use surrogacy services in California because the state’s health department says it does not keep track. But NPR spoke to several agencies that suggested there were hundreds, if not thousands of cases in the state a year.

The co-founder of Fat Daddy, Zheng, says there are many reasons clients want to use his company’s services.
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Having a baby, even via surrogate in the U.S., also grants the child coveted American citizenship. Perhaps surprisingly, Zheng says the growing competition between the U.S. and China has actually made American citizenship more attractive to many families.

“In the foreseeable future, China and the U.S. will definitely be the two strongest countries in the world,” he says. “If the U.S. is not the first, then China will be and it will definitely be a win-win situation for your children in the future if they have both these nationalities.”

Read the rest here:

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/22/1128837495/surrogacy-birth-tourism-china-california

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Over a thousand global tycoons granted Irish residency, 94% of applicants from China

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MEX Highway tragedy: Woman burned to death after accident

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Who hired gangsters to disrupt Syed Saddiq’s Muar rally, not once but twice?

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