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Senior official stresses fulfilling poverty-eradication goals amid epidemic control

Hu Chunhua, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Thursday stressed efforts to ensure the full completion of poverty-alleviation targets with a hig

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China won't adopt 'flood-like' stimulus nor negative rates: regulator

Beijing's skyline. /VCG China's top banking regulator said on Thursday that the country will not adopt "flood-like" stimulus nor negative rates, warning that unprecedented easing by the Federa

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The lengthy plan to restart the NBA season features fitness rings for temperature tracking

A memo obtained by The Athletic details the NBA’s plans to play out the remainder of the 2019-2020 season, beginning at the end of June. It’s a fairly detailed return to action for the league, includi

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China refutes Australian official's "disinformation" labelling

China on Wednesday urged the Australian side to respect the voice of the victims of discrimination and violence in Australia, face up to the problems and really think about what went wrong on thei

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Meng Wanzhou's lawyers file new memo to Canadian court against U.S. extradition request

Lawyers of Huawei's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Meng Wanzhou filed on Monday a new memo of arguments with the Supreme Court of British Columbia to fight extradition

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China braces for typhoon Nuri

(Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)BEIJING, June 14 (Xinhua) -- China on Saturday activated a level-IV emergency response, the lowest in the country's four-tier warning system, for ty

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Facebook fires employee who protested inaction on Trump posts

Facebook Inc. fired an employee who had criticized Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's decision not to take action against inflammatory posts by U.S. President Donald Trump this month, citing his tweet

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China successfully launches new ocean observation satellite

China successfully sent an ocean observation satellite into orbit from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on Thursday.A Long March-2C rocket, carrying the satelli

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Twitter starts putting fact-checking labels on tweets about 5G and COVID-19

Conspiracy theories claiming a connection between 5G technology and the coronavirus have been around since the pandemic’s early days and apparently they’re still going strong.So strong, in

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Republican senators ask FCC to examine Section 230, following Trump order

On May 29, the president of the United States of America tweeted, simply, “REVOKE 230!” The message was all caps, with an exclamation mark for good measure. The message was nothing, if not direct, fol

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20,000 relocated after rainstorms hit China's Guangdong

Torrential rains have hit south China's Guangdong Province, unleashing floods and forcing the relocation of 20,096 people, local authorities said Tuesday. The emergency

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COVID-19: John Magufuli declares Tanzania free of the pandemic

Tanzania's President John Magufuli. /REUTERS Tanzania's President John Magufuli has declared the country "coronavirus-free" thanks to prayers by citizens."The corona disease has been eliminate

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China launches emergency response for heavy rains

Aerial photo taken on June 4, 2020 shows the flood peak arriving a river section in urban Liuzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. (Photo by Li Hanchi/X

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Israelis protest Netanyahu's annexation plan

Several thousand Israelis demonstrated on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to extend sovereignty over parts of the occupied West Bank, de-facto

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Turkish patrol boat targeted by Greek fire on border river

A Turkish special force boat came under harassment fire from the Greek side on the Maritsa River between Turkey and Greece, the governor's office of the northwestern p

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Nearly 380,000 affected as flooding batters east China's Jiangxi

Nearly 380,000 people have been hit by floods as a fresh spell of heavy rains caused inundation in 10 cities in east China's Jiangxi Province, local authorities said F

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Japan's Dentsu evacuates headquarters' staff in Tokyo after receiving bomb threat: source

Japan's largest advertising agency Dentsu Group Corp. on Friday evacuated personnel from its Tokyo headquarters after receiving a bomb threat, a source close to the ma