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Jon Cryer Compares Charlie Sheen To A Dictator Over Unequal Pay On Two & A Half Men

“If you wonder what it’s like to work with Charlie Sheen for eight years, when I started, I had hair.”

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Is China's SCO a counterweight to NATO or just geopolitical theatre?

Once a modest Central Asian security forum, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation now pits Beijing’s ambitions against Western dominance, with its August summit casting President Xi Jinping as a champion of a new multipolar order. But internal rifts raise doubts that it can rival NATO.

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What we learned about North Korea at the summit in Beijing

China invited world leaders to its capital, Beijing, recently to celebrate the 85th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in the second world war. Western leaders were notably absent. But despite the presence of many other leaders, such as Russian president Vladimir Putin, it was the arrival of North Korea’s Kim Jong-un…

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Dan Andrews Addresses Backlash After Posing For Photos With Vladimir Putin & Kim Jong-un

“You would hope that you use your position as a former leader ... to push the world closer to peace, not join a military parade with a bunch of dictators,” David Shoebridge said of the pics.

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Daniel Andrews breaks silence on China parade outing

Dan Andrews is unrepentant about attending a military show of might in China, where he was photographed with dictators and alleged war criminals.

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Vladimir Putin thanks Kim Jong-un for supplying North Korean troops to fight Ukraine

The Russian president praised Pyongyang's support during a meeting between the two leaders in Beijing on Wednesday.

Euronews

Military reveals and bold messaging: five key takeaways from China’s big parade

A highly choreographed display and formidable guest list were designed to send a message to the US and its allies about China’s strength

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Tanks and missiles roll through Beijing as China commemorates 1945 victory

China staged its largest-ever military parade in Beijing on Wednesday to mark 80 years since Japan’s surrender in the Second World War. President Xi Jinping stood in Tiananmen Square flanked by Russian leader Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un – a spectacle designed to show military power and political…

Radio France Internationale

North Korea: Kim Jong-un’s daughter makes international debut fuelling succession speculation

Kim Ju-ae’s arrival in Beijing ahead of China’s victory day military parade show she is her father’s preferred successor, experts say

The Guardian - AU

Daniel Andrews criticised after attending China military parade and posing with Kim Jong-Un and Vladimir Putin

Former Victorian Labor premier earlier filmed shaking Chinese president Xi Jinping’s hand

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Leaders gather in Beijing for military display – as it happened

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Xi Jinping says world faces ‘peace or war’, as Putin and Kim join him for military parade

Trump criticises victory day event as China caps off week of diplomatic grandstanding seen as rebuke to the west

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un takes his signature train to Beijing ahead of military parade

Kim left Pyongyang with an entourage of senior officials on Monday. What do we know about his famous armoured train?

Euronews

Kim Jong Un pays emotional tribute to North Korean soldiers killed in Russia

Kim hands out medals to ‘heroes’ sent by North Korea to help Russia expel Ukrainian forces from Kursk

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Kim Jong-un hails North Korean troops fighting against Ukraine at ceremony for returned soldiers

Soldiers who had returned from Russia were honoured with a concert and relatives of troops killed in action were among those to attend a banquet

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North Korean defector sues Kim Jong-un alleging torture and sexual violence in regime’s detention facilities

Choi Min-kyung is seeking damages from the state represented by its leader and has also submitted a criminal complaint alleging crimes against humanity

Euronews

North Korea doubles down on 'unconditional' support for Russia's war in Ukraine

Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's meeting on Wednesday is the latest sign of expanding cooperation between their two nations.

Euronews

North Korean commando involved in plot to kill South Korean president dies at 82

Kim Shin-jo, who later reinvented himself as a Christian pastor, took part in the failed 1968 attempt to assassinate Park Chung-hee.

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North Korea: Kim Jong-un is sending a second wave of soldiers to Ukraine – here’s why

North Korea is believed to be preparing to send another group of soldiers to come to Vladimir Putin’s aid in the war in Ukraine, despite heavy combat losses already suffered by troops from the east Asian country.

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Kim Jong-un orders divorcing couples to labour camps under tough new rules

The North Korean leader has declared that ending a marriage demonstrates anti-socialist sympathies and warrants punishment

The Guardian - UK

Russia-Ukraine war: North Korea preparing to send more troops to Russia, says South Korea – as it happened

Troops and weapons, including suicide drones, to be shipped to Russia to support war against Ukraine, say Seoul’s joint chiefs of staff

The Guardian - AU

Ukraine war briefing: Russia says military ties with North Korea ‘actively expanding’

Russian defence minister says on visit that cooperation between the countries growing ‘in all areas’ while Kim Jong-un vows North will ‘invariably support’ Moscow’s war. What we know on day 1,011

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China unnerved by Russia’s growing ties with North Korea, claims US official

Comments part of debate over whether Beijing backs Kim Jong-un’s decision to send troops to fight in Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

North Koreans deployed alongside Russian troops in Ukraine, sources say

Engineers said to be supporting missile launches and reports of North Koreans killed near Donetsk

The Guardian - UK

US ‘incredibly concerned’ over Putin’s threat to supply weapons to North Korea after Asia tour

State department warns such a move could destabilise the peninsula, as South Korea considers arming Ukraine

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