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Florida Gov. Signs ‘Big Tech Bill’ to Stop ‘Power Grab on Speech, Thought and Content’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed what he had termed ‘The Big Tech Bill’, seeking to protect state residents from de-platforming and censorship.Slamming Silico

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States across the U.S. prepare for protests before Biden inauguration

02:04 As Washington D.C. prepares for inauguration weekend, so are cities across the United States.State capitols have been on alert and the FBI has warned of planned armed protests in

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U.S. blacklisting of SMIC to badly affect production capacity: company

Chinese chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) said on Sunday that it resolutely opposes the U.S. decision to blacklist it and reiterated that

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Ethiopia declares victory in fight over Tigray region, but guerrilla warfare likely to continue

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced the end of military operations in the northern Tigray region after saying it was in "full control" of the regional capital

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Mexican president forges crucible for corruption fight, eyeing key vote

Gearing up for a key election next year, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has wielded corruption as both a stick with which to beat political adversaries,

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Tech giants' top executives grilled by lawmakers in antitrust hearing

Top executives of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google on Wednesday testified virtually before the U.S. House Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law Subcommittee, which hit them with tough qu

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Amazon’s hardware business doesn’t escape Congressional scrutiny

While much of today’s Congressional grilling into the anticompetitive practices of the big tech giants focused on their core businesses, Amazon’s hardware also came in for close inspection

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Sino-British Joint Declaration should not be another unequal treaty

Editor's note:Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics pertaining to China, the DPRK, Britain and

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The U.S.' anti-China COVID-19 accusations are part of its new Cold War

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses his administration's daily coronavirus briefing at the White House in Washington, March 17, 2020. /Reuters Editor's note: Andrew Korybko is a Moscow-based

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EU to unveil plans to boost European firms, rein in U.S. tech giants

VCG The European Commission will on Wednesday launch the first of a raft of proposals to help European companies exploit their rich trove of industrial data and at the same time rein in online

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Israel’s Gantz vows to form government without Netanyahu

Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz is vowing to form a government that will include neither the indicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor the predominantly Arab