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🇫🇷 | French police drag an unconscious protester away during a violent crackdown in Paris.

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🇫🇷 | French police drag an unconscious protester away during a violent crackdown in Paris.

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🇰🇷 | High tensions in South Korea as protests erupt against Iran war deployment plans. South Korea is actively preparing to become the first country to join the US militarily in the Strait of Hormuz — and Seoul has seen daily protests ever since officials confirmed it. Police tried to contain demonstrators as they took to the streets. With slogans such as "Everyone opposed to the Hormuz deployment, unite!" and "Refuse US military pressure!", activists are protesting near the US embassy in the capital. The demonstrations are organised by Seoul Peace Solidarity and National People's Action, which have urged the government not to bow to US pressure or capitulate to Washington, and vowed to continue the mobilisations. Further protests are planned. Washington has pressured Seoul for months to deploy forces to West Asia. It has never looked closer to reality. Seoul has notified Washington it is willing to dispatch naval ships and maritime patrol aircraft, and local media report parliamentary approval is already being prepared. It would be South Korea's first deployment at US request in 22 years. The deployment still requires that approval to proceed, but officials confirmed preparations are already under way regardless. While South Korea frames the package as "defensive," it would actively supply and enable US military operations against Iran, providing logistics, intelligence and direct cooperation with US forces. South Korea imports essentially all of its crude oil, 70% of it from the Gulf, leaving it heavily dependent on traffic through the Strait. Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei warned Seoul on Monday, in Korean, that any country operating in the Strait would be regarded as directly supporting the aggressor, and that a sovereign state must not yield to US pressure. Just last month, Washington downgraded its most important annual drills with Seoul, saying South Korea had refused to back its war on Iran. South Korea is arguably the most subordinated country in the world to the US military. Under OPCON, it is the only country on earth whose military would pass to American command in wartime. It hosts one of the largest US contingents anywhere, and Washington is its most important diplomatic and military partner.

🇰🇷 | High tensions in South Korea as protests erupt against Iran war deployment plans. South Korea is actively preparing to become the first country to join the US militarily in the Strait of Hormuz — and Seoul has seen daily protests ever since officials confirmed it. Police tried to contain demonstrators as they took to the streets. With slogans such as "Everyone opposed to the Hormuz deployment, unite!" and "Refuse US military pressure!", activists are protesting near the US embassy in the capital. The demonstrations are organised by Seoul Peace Solidarity and National People's Action, which have urged the government not to bow to US pressure or capitulate to Washington, and vowed to continue the mobilisations. Further protests are planned. Washington has pressured Seoul for months to deploy forces to West Asia. It has never looked closer to reality. Seoul has notified Washington it is willing to dispatch naval ships and maritime patrol aircraft, and local media report parliamentary approval is already being prepared. It would be South Korea's first deployment at US request in 22 years. The deployment still requires that approval to proceed, but officials confirmed preparations are already under way regardless. While South Korea frames the package as "defensive," it would actively supply and enable US military operations against Iran, providing logistics, intelligence and direct cooperation with US forces. South Korea imports essentially all of its crude oil, 70% of it from the Gulf, leaving it heavily dependent on traffic through the Strait. Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei warned Seoul on Monday, in Korean, that any country operating in the Strait would be regarded as directly supporting the aggressor, and that a sovereign state must not yield to US pressure. Just last month, Washington downgraded its most important annual drills with Seoul, saying South Korea had refused to back its war on Iran. South Korea is arguably the most subordinated country in the world to the US military. Under OPCON, it is the only country on earth whose military would pass to American command in wartime. It hosts one of the largest US contingents anywhere, and Washington is its most important diplomatic and military partner.

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🇫🇷 | Protester fighting back against multiple riot police before disappearing in tear gas.

🇫🇷 | Protester fighting back against multiple riot police before disappearing in tear gas.

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🇮🇪 🇬🇧 | Do you know who is behind the riots in Belfast? You've seen the videos: houses burning and migrants being attacked. But what the headlines keep missing is who is behind the violence. They are more than far-right. They are loyalists — loyal to the British Crown, who do not see the six counties of the North as part of Ireland at all. And, in their own words, they are just “getting the foreigners out.” They move in step with the wider British far right. Tommy Robinson and Reform UK have pushed for protests across the region. On the ground, the method is fear: immigrant families’ addresses shared online, shops set alight, doors kicked in. This violence has deep roots. Northern Ireland was carved out of Ireland through British partition in 1921, six counties kept under London’s rule. Loyalists fought to stay British, while republicans fought for a united Ireland. “The Troubles” killed more than 3,500 people before the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. And the same loyalism that once burned out Republican neighborhoods is now turning on migrants. As migrants are chased through the streets, the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service responded to 62 incidents in just five hours on the first night. Three houses, a supermarket, and a city bus were set alight.

🇮🇪 🇬🇧 | Do you know who is behind the riots in Belfast? You've seen the videos: houses burning and migrants being attacked. But what the headlines keep missing is who is behind the violence. They are more than far-right. They are loyalists — loyal to the British Crown, who do not see the six counties of the North as part of Ireland at all. And, in their own words, they are just “getting the foreigners out.” They move in step with the wider British far right. Tommy Robinson and Reform UK have pushed for protests across the region. On the ground, the method is fear: immigrant families’ addresses shared online, shops set alight, doors kicked in. This violence has deep roots. Northern Ireland was carved out of Ireland through British partition in 1921, six counties kept under London’s rule. Loyalists fought to stay British, while republicans fought for a united Ireland. “The Troubles” killed more than 3,500 people before the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. And the same loyalism that once burned out Republican neighborhoods is now turning on migrants. As migrants are chased through the streets, the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service responded to 62 incidents in just five hours on the first night. Three houses, a supermarket, and a city bus were set alight.

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🇫🇷 | NOW IN FRANCE: Police launch violent crackdown as nationwide protests erupt across the country. Our reporters in Paris are witnessing excessive use of police stun grenades, leaving multiple protesters injured.

🇫🇷 | NOW IN FRANCE: Police launch violent crackdown as nationwide protests erupt across the country. Our reporters in Paris are witnessing excessive use of police stun grenades, leaving multiple protesters injured.

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🇫🇷 | NOW IN PARIS: Protesters are fighting back as French riot police launch a violent crackdown.

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🇫🇷 | NOW IN PARIS: Protesters are fighting back as French riot police launch a violent crackdown.

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🇫🇷 | France’s student uprising started in a french colony, and no one is talking about it.

🇫🇷 | France’s student uprising started in a french colony, and no one is talking about it.

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🇹🇼 🇺🇸 | Taiwanese journalist Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 doesn't want Taiwan to become the next Ukraine, and she's tired of Americans who do. “That's objectively a crazy thing to say." The Specter met Oung in Taipei. Read the full interview now.

🇹🇼 🇺🇸 | Taiwanese journalist Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 doesn't want Taiwan to become the next Ukraine, and she's tired of Americans who do. “That's objectively a crazy thing to say." The Specter met Oung in Taipei. Read the full interview now.

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🇰🇪🇺🇸 | Kenyan police shot dead a protester as hundreds demonstrated against a US quarantine facility in Nanyuki. The facility is for US nationals exposed to Ebola. Not for Kenyans. The protester was shot in the head and at least 19 people were arrested, according to Reuters, at the site where the US is building a 50-bed unit at Laikipia Air Base. Kenya has no Ebola case of its own; the unit would hold US nationals exposed to the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. It runs on roughly KSh 1.68 billion — about USD 13 million in US aid. This is not the first killing: on 1 June police shot two protesters dead and arrested 31. Demonstrators call their country a "dumping ground" and have vowed to march until the plan is scrapped. Washington says it "cannot and will not allow" any cases to enter US territory. Kenyan President William Ruto calls the deal "mutually beneficial" — while his own police keep killing the Kenyans who refuse it.

🇰🇪🇺🇸 | Kenyan police shot dead a protester as hundreds demonstrated against a US quarantine facility in Nanyuki. The facility is for US nationals exposed to Ebola. Not for Kenyans. The protester was shot in the head and at least 19 people were arrested, according to Reuters, at the site where the US is building a 50-bed unit at Laikipia Air Base. Kenya has no Ebola case of its own; the unit would hold US nationals exposed to the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. It runs on roughly KSh 1.68 billion — about USD 13 million in US aid. This is not the first killing: on 1 June police shot two protesters dead and arrested 31. Demonstrators call their country a "dumping ground" and have vowed to march until the plan is scrapped. Washington says it "cannot and will not allow" any cases to enter US territory. Kenyan President William Ruto calls the deal "mutually beneficial" — while his own police keep killing the Kenyans who refuse it.

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🇯🇵 | Japanese police violently remove anti-war protesters during the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Anti-government protests in Japan are growing against the Takaichi administration's remilitarization agenda.

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🇯🇵 | Japanese police violently remove anti-war protesters during the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Anti-government protests in Japan are growing against the Takaichi administration's remilitarization agenda.

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🇫🇷 🇵🇸 | A student at the Paris protests tore an Israeli flag from a counter-protester’s hands. When the woman complained to a reporter, the student cut her off: “No, you’re the Nazi! You’re horrible!”

🇫🇷 🇵🇸 | A student at the Paris protests tore an Israeli flag from a counter-protester’s hands. When the woman complained to a reporter, the student cut her off: “No, you’re the Nazi! You’re horrible!”

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🇮🇩 | Indonesian students are smashing through police barricades as a massive wave of defiance sweeps the country. For a solid week, student-led coalitions have shut down streets nationwide, escalating their fury against the Prabowo government's devastating economic policies and deep-seated corruption scandals. Frontline activists warn that the administration is driving the country straight into economic collapse. Protesters are also resisting the expanding footprint of the military in civilian spaces, ringing alarm bells over a dangerous slide back into the brutal, Suharto-era dictatorship.

🇮🇩 | Indonesian students are smashing through police barricades as a massive wave of defiance sweeps the country. For a solid week, student-led coalitions have shut down streets nationwide, escalating their fury against the Prabowo government's devastating economic policies and deep-seated corruption scandals. Frontline activists warn that the administration is driving the country straight into economic collapse. Protesters are also resisting the expanding footprint of the military in civilian spaces, ringing alarm bells over a dangerous slide back into the brutal, Suharto-era dictatorship.

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🇹🇼 | "They feel like [Taiwan] is almost on the level of Israel." The Specter met Taiwanese journalist Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 in Taipei, amid the severe political crisis shaking the island. The Western narrative pushes the idea that everyone in Taiwan opposes unity with the mainland. Oung made clear to us that this is far from reality. "American influence in Taiwan means that the elite are not aligned with Taiwan's interests," Oung told The Specter. The ruling DPP is now facing one of its worst crises yet. Mass protests are rocking the island, the largest in years, demanding the party step down. The Specter was on the ground as 200,000 people took to the streets. A severe food safety scandal was the trigger, but deeper questions, above all cross-strait relations, sit at the heart of people's anger. This snippet is only the beginning. More from our meeting with Angelica Oung is coming. Follow us so you don't miss it.

🇹🇼 | "They feel like [Taiwan] is almost on the level of Israel." The Specter met Taiwanese journalist Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 in Taipei, amid the severe political crisis shaking the island. The Western narrative pushes the idea that everyone in Taiwan opposes unity with the mainland. Oung made clear to us that this is far from reality. "American influence in Taiwan means that the elite are not aligned with Taiwan's interests," Oung told The Specter. The ruling DPP is now facing one of its worst crises yet. Mass protests are rocking the island, the largest in years, demanding the party step down. The Specter was on the ground as 200,000 people took to the streets. A severe food safety scandal was the trigger, but deeper questions, above all cross-strait relations, sit at the heart of people's anger. This snippet is only the beginning. More from our meeting with Angelica Oung is coming. Follow us so you don't miss it.

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🇹🇼 | "President Lai Ching-te, step down!" – Taiwan's food safety crisis has turned into a political standoff. The Kuomintang (KMT) is on the offensive, rallying hundreds of thousands in Taipei to bring down the DPP government. The rivalry between the KMT and the DPP has shaped Taiwanese politics for decades. The DPP holds to its separatist line, while the KMT wants closer cross-strait ties with the mainland. Leading that effort is KMT Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun, known for her fiery speeches. Cheng won the KMT leadership in 2025 as a dark horse candidate running on a hardline cross-strait platform. In April 2026, she met Xi Jinping in Beijing, the first meeting between KMT and Communist Party leaders in more than a decade.

🇹🇼 | "President Lai Ching-te, step down!" – Taiwan's food safety crisis has turned into a political standoff. The Kuomintang (KMT) is on the offensive, rallying hundreds of thousands in Taipei to bring down the DPP government. The rivalry between the KMT and the DPP has shaped Taiwanese politics for decades. The DPP holds to its separatist line, while the KMT wants closer cross-strait ties with the mainland. Leading that effort is KMT Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun, known for her fiery speeches. Cheng won the KMT leadership in 2025 as a dark horse candidate running on a hardline cross-strait platform. In April 2026, she met Xi Jinping in Beijing, the first meeting between KMT and Communist Party leaders in more than a decade.

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🇯🇵🇨🇳 | Japan wants nukes? Tensions escalate further in East Asia as Japan expresses intentions to acquire nuclear weapons. "Japan will pay a heavy price," China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian warned Tokyo, urging it to abandon the path of remilitarization. The Takaichi government is breaking a 70-year nuclear taboo, declaring that Tokyo can no longer avoid confronting the question of nuclear weapons. Japan's Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi openly weighed the option of stationing US nuclear assets at Japanese bases. The so-called "Three Non-Nuclear Principles" bind Tokyo to never producing, possessing, or permitting the introduction of nuclear weapons onto Japanese territory under any circumstances. The right-wing attacks against Japan's binding "pacifist" constitution are fueling tensions in East Asia, which have been escalating since the Takaichi government came to power. Analysts have repeatedly pointed out that Japan is taking the spearhead position in a new US doctrine in East Asia, making non-stop militarization of its allies in the region a policy to encircle China. Japan still faces strong domestic resistance to breaking with the Three Non-Nuclear Principles, as many Japanese citizens retain painful memories of the devastation caused by nuclear weapons.

🇯🇵🇨🇳 | Japan wants nukes? Tensions escalate further in East Asia as Japan expresses intentions to acquire nuclear weapons. "Japan will pay a heavy price," China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian warned Tokyo, urging it to abandon the path of remilitarization. The Takaichi government is breaking a 70-year nuclear taboo, declaring that Tokyo can no longer avoid confronting the question of nuclear weapons. Japan's Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi openly weighed the option of stationing US nuclear assets at Japanese bases. The so-called "Three Non-Nuclear Principles" bind Tokyo to never producing, possessing, or permitting the introduction of nuclear weapons onto Japanese territory under any circumstances. The right-wing attacks against Japan's binding "pacifist" constitution are fueling tensions in East Asia, which have been escalating since the Takaichi government came to power. Analysts have repeatedly pointed out that Japan is taking the spearhead position in a new US doctrine in East Asia, making non-stop militarization of its allies in the region a policy to encircle China. Japan still faces strong domestic resistance to breaking with the Three Non-Nuclear Principles, as many Japanese citizens retain painful memories of the devastation caused by nuclear weapons.

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