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In today’s featured cartoon, Christian Adams illustrates UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to increase the country’s nuclear weapons arsenal to cope with “evolving global security threats”.
Commenting on reports that the UK’s Home Office is considering sending asylum seekers overseas (a third country) to be processed, Peter Brookes depicts Home Secretary Priti Patel leaving immigrants at Rockall, an uninhabitable granite islet, in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Harry Burton comments on the Australian government’s new law making it mandatory for Facebook and Google to pay media companies for news. This week, Facebook struck a deal with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Australia.
On President Jair Bolsonaro’s birthday, Carlos Latuff recalls the number of Brazilians who have “mortos pela covid” (died from Covid-19).
In view of the Atlanta Spa shootings in the US Tuesday, which killed at least six Asian-American women, Kevin Siers compares the Covid-19 pandemic to America’s gun ‘epidemic’.