charges brought against him by the company s shareholders. raise your voices against injustice the call from pope francis to south sudan s christian leaders on his first full day in the world s newest country, which remains plagued by violence and extreme poverty. and it s one of mother nature s greatest displays, flock of starlings. china has made another attempt to calm the diplomatic crisis caused by the detection of a chinese surveillance balloon over the united states. the top foreign policy official wang yi has discussed the dispute with the us secretary of state anthony blinken, who postponed a trip to beijing this weekend in response to the dispute. by the detection of a chinese surveillance balloon over the united states. the top foreign policy official wang yi has discussed the dispute with the us secretary of state anthony blinken, who postponed a trip to beijing this weekend in response to the dispute. china insists the balloon is a weather obervation airship
there were hints that xi jinping would meet him, which, you know, he didn t have to do. blinken is not the president. so there was every sign that preparations were being made for a more contained and reasonable conversation between the us and china that we ve seen for some time. and it fits in with with the charm offensive that china has launched in the last two months to say, look, you know, lockdown s over, come back, come and invest. and all these things have now been quite badly damaged by this episode. so it s a bit mystifying. you know, either the military, the pla, presumably whose balloon they say is, were not paying attention to the diplomatic moment or this is a rather stupid provocation. here in the uk a missing person case has been perplexing investigators. but lancashire police investigating the disappearance of mother of two nicola bulley now believe she fell