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4 Questions: What's next for China-U.S. relations?

Relations between China and the United States hit a nadir this week, with Washington intensifying its attacks by ordering the Chinese consulate in Houston to close and Beijing responding by instructi

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COVID-19 Global Roundup: How countries went from reopening to lockdown

Editor's note: This is the 94th article in the COVID-19 Global Roundup series. Here is thepreviousone. On Thursday, Israel convened its special coronavirus advisory committee to discuss the probab

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Wall Street closes sharply lower on tech selloff

Wall Street dropped sharply on Thursday as investors fled market-leading tech shares due to mixed earnings reports and growing signs of a worsening coronavirus pandemic, which could exacerbate a d

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Hong Kong to mandate face masks at indoor public places amid worsening epidemic

Hong Kong will mandate face masks at indoor public places in its latest effort to contain the rapid growth of new COVID-19 cases. Starting Thursday, people will be req

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Hong Kong further steps up anti-epidemic measures amid surging local infections

Hong Kong announced new anti-epidemic measures on Sunday, including mandatory mask-wearing in all indoor public places, as daily confirmed cases for the first time surp

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Africa's COVID-19 infections top 664,000

FILE PHOTO: Kenyan ministry of health medical workers prepare to take swabs from truck drivers during a testing for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Namanga one stop border crossing poi

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Brazil COVID-19 cases reach two million, doubling in less than a month

Brazil on Thursday passed the two million confirmed coronavirus cases mark, with few signs that the rate is slowing as anger grows over President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the outbreak.Just 27

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From Jupitr to Centaur, fears over U.S. military's biochemical experiment grow in S. Korea

-- The USFK is reportedly expanding a scandalous program it claims to be a defense system against biochemical threat;-- South Korean civic groups and local residents have accused the U.S. military of

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Is Trump one of the worst or best presidents ever?

President Donald Trump wears a mask as he walks down the hallway during his visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, the United States, July 11, 2020. /AP E

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U.S. top infectious diseases expert Fauci sidelined by White House despite COVID-19 surge: report

Despite his leading role in the U.S. fight against COVID-19, top infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci has been sidelined by the White House, the Washington Post re

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Australia cuts citizen returns as virus surge worsens

Australia will allow only 4,000 citizens or permanent residents back into the country each day as authorities battle a worsening coronavirus outbreak in Melbourne. /Reuters Australia will slas

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Fauci says hard-hit U.S. states should pause reopening

A top U.S. infectious diseases expert said on Thursday that U.S. states hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic should not be moving forward with reopening. "I would think w

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Situation 'really not good' as new COVID-19 cases break records: Fauci

The current state of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. is "really not good," Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country's top infectious disease expert, said Monday amid an alarmin

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Single-concert festival serenades empty ruins in Lebanon

A philharmonic orchestra performed to spectator-free Roman ruins in east Lebanon Sunday, after a top summer festival downsized to a single concert in a year of economic meltdown and pandemic.The B

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Pink ice in Italy's Alps sparks algae probe

An aerial picture taken on July 3, 2020 above the Presena glacier near Pellizzano shows pink colored snow. /VCG Scientists in Italy are investigating the mysterious appearance of pink glacial

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Stocks climb on U.S. jobs recovery, vaccine hope

Stock markets pushed higher Thursday as global investors cheered a solid rebound in U.S. employment and encouraging news about progress towards a coronavirus vaccine.The U.S. economy regained 4.8 mil

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Will Amazon forest fires complicate COVID-19 in Brazil?

00:44 Fires in Brazil's Amazon region jumped 20% in June compared to that month a year ago, according to new government data.Researchers worry these findings could foretell a repeat, o