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China cementing its status as the world's dominant trader: Bloomberg

China is cementing its status as the world's dominant trading nation, confounding warnings that a once-in-a-century pandemic combined with simmering tensions with the U.S. would derail that status, B

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Pakistan bans TikTok over ‘immoral and indecent’ videos

Pakistan has banned popular short video app TikTok in the nation, citing circulation of videos that it deemed “immoral and indecent.”The move comes months after the South Asian country raised serious

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French government warns Paris may be put under maximum virus alert

France's Minister of Health Olivier Véran on Thursday warned that the capital Paris may go on maximum virus alert from Monday.France, like a number of other countries i

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YouTube will add mail-in voting info box next to videos that discuss voting by mail

YouTube has been relatively quiet about its strategy to battle the flow of misinformation leading into the 2020 U.S. election, but the platform has a few new measures in store.The video sharing site

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COVID-19: Peru launched controversial TV public health warnings

02:18 The Peruvian government has launched a series of controversial TV public health warnings just as the country has logged the highest COVID-19 mortality rate in the world. More tha

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India's coronavirus case tally nears 3.8 million as country reopens

Medical staff treat a patient inside the emergency ward of Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College and Hospital, during the coronavirus outbreak, in Bhagalpur, Bihar, India, July 27, 2020. /Reuters

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Twitter flags Republican leader’s video as ‘manipulated’ for altering disabled activist’s words

Twitter flagged an inflammatory video by House Republican Whip Steve Scalise on Sunday for altering footage of a conversation between progressive activist Ady Barkan and Joe Biden. The video is now l

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Fortnite for Android just got axed from the Google Play Store too

After Epic Games picked a fight with Apple over the sizable chunk of fees the company takes on transactions in its mobile ecosystem, it looks like the Fortnite developer will be waging a war on two f

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Three Gorges reservoir braces for new round of floods

The Three Gorges reservoir in central China's Hubei Province is expected to see a new round of floods around Friday. According to a preliminary forecast by the Changjia

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South Korea floods, landslides kill 26 as heavy rains continue

At least 26 people have died after 46 days of heavy rains in South Korea, with the country’s longest monsoon in seven years causing more flooding, landslides and evacua

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South Korea's floods, landslides kill 21 as heavy rains continue

At least 21 people have been killed and 11 othrs are missing in South Korea's flooding, with more than 3,000 people displaced. /AFP The death toll from weeklong heavy rains in South Korea rose

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Fresh floods hit China's Chongqing

Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, which is located along the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, was on Monday hit by the most severe flooding since the flood

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Kenya reports 603 COVID-19 cases on Sunday

FILE PHOTO: Kenya's minister for Health, Mr. Mutahi Kagwe. /Ministry of Health-Kenya Kenya's Ministry of Health on Sunday reported 603 new COVID-19 cases in the country, just a day after it re

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EU says deeply concerned over U.S. growing use of sanctions

High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said on Friday he was deeply concerned over the growing use of san

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Russia, Germany slam U.S. threat to sanction Nord Stream 2 as disregard for energy sovereignty

Russia and Germany have rejected the recent U.S. threat to sanction the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, criticizing the move as disregard for Europe's energy sovereignty. The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline,

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Pompeo threatens sanctions against companies over Nord Stream 2, TurkStream projects

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday sent fresh warnings to companies involved in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline between Russia and Germany and the second

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China's Yangtze River flood response raised to second highest

Chinese authorities on Friday raised the emergency response for flood control in the Yangtze River and riverside areas to Level II, the second highest in the response