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The Australian government raises concerns directly with China over the country’s new ethnic unity law, which allows Beijing to target people overseas.  Source link

An annual financial statement released on Thursday contained several revelations, including plans to cut the royal family’s public funding, and details of how much tax the monarch paid. Source link

More than 250 buildings have been lost or damaged after the devastating double quake, National Assembly president Jorge Rodríguez says. Source link

Experts say Asia’s decades-long experience fighting bird flu has shown there is no magic bullet and that fragmented responses to the disease will fail. Source link

At least 101 million Europeans were forecast to swelter in temperatures over 35 degrees on Thursday, with hundreds of people believed to have been killed by the heatwave. Source link

Jorge Rodríguez, who heads Venezuela’s national assembly, says at least 188 people have died, 1,520 people have been injured, and at least 250 buildings have been damaged or destroyed. Source link

The shock closure of a Chinese language school after 17 years leaves parents and teachers with “unanswered questions” over the school’s financial management. Source link

Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodríguez says at least 971 have been confirmed injured after emergency services worked through the night to find those trapped under collapsed buildings.  Source link

Two earthquakes struck Venezuela on Wednesday evening, local time, collapsing buildings in the capital of Caracas. Source link

A lawyer for the Olympian arrested at Washington’s reflecting pool says his client is a scapegoat who was targeted to distract Americans from the Trump administration’s failures.  Source link