Australia Urged to Sanction Regimes That Engage in ‘State Hostage Taking’Australia should use the Magnitsky Act to sanction foreign officials involved in detaining Australians as political hostages, a global justice campaigner has urged. “There’s a lot more state hostage-taking [in] countries like Iran and China and others which

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Beijing and Cook Islands to Strike Partnership Deal, Leaving New Zealand BlindsidedA closer-than-expected relationship between the Cook Islands and Beijing has been suddenly revealed by an announcement that its Prime Minister, Mark Brown, is to make a state visit to China—reportedly as soon as Feb. 7—where he will sign what his

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