News Headlines - 01 February 2017
▽Rifkind a stooge in secret PR war on China | The Times & The Sunday Times
A British think tank is being paid about ￡10,000 a month by Japan to wage a propaganda campaign against China.
The Henry Jackson Society (HJS), a registered charity, has encouraged politicians including the former foreign secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind and journalists to voice opposition to Chinese foreign policy.
Former U.N. secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday he would not run for president of South Korea, a surprise announcement after weeks of laying political groundwork but then watching his plans erode over what he dubbed “fake news.”
▽UK issues posthumous pardons for thousands of gay men | The Guardian
Thousands of men convicted of offences that once criminalised homosexuality but are no longer on the statute book have been posthumously pardoned under a new law.
▽Secretary to Nazi propaganda minister Goebbels dies at 106 | DW.COM
A former secretary to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels has died, aged 106. Brunhilde Pomsel was one of the last remaining people who knew members of the Nazi leadership in person.
▽George H.W. Bush Discharged From Houston Hospital - NBC News
Former President George H.W. Bush was discharged Monday from a Houston hospital after waging a more than two week battle with pneumonia.
