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CES 2020 to kick off next week in Las Vegas

The 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world's premier tech show, will kick off on Jan. 7 in Las Vegas. More than 4,500 exhibitors will launch nearly 20,000 new transformative tech products t

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New regulations make it easier for foreign banks to operate in China

China's banking regulator unveiled revised management regulations for foreign banks to advance the opening-up of the country's banking sector and promote its high-quality development.Foreign banks ca

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Anger, fear mount after U.S. killing of Iranian top general

"Our world changed last night, and there's no way to predict what happens next," New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said at security briefing Friday. Speaking in the aftermath of a U.S. sanctioned

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Washington urges U.S. supreme court to reconsider Obamacare

Attorney General Bob Ferguson of the U.S. state of Washington on Friday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider a lower court decision that challenged a popular healthcare law signed by former U.

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New battery said to power a smartphone for five days

Could the "world's most efficient" battery be here?An international team led by Australian scientists has developed a lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery they claim can power a cellular phone for five c

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China's inland surface water quality significantly improves: study

A new study published on Friday in the journal Science Advances showed that China's inland surface water quality improved significantly from 2003 to 2017.The improvemen

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Commentary: All parties need to de-escalate tensions after death of Iranian commander

The United States dramatically escalated tensions in the Middle East by killing a senior Iranian commander in Iraq on Friday, which threatens to open a Pandora's box of renewed conflict in this vola

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Tensions soar in Middle East following targeted killing by U.S. airstrike

Tensions soared in the Middle East after a U.S. airstrike near Baghdad International Airport on Friday killed an Iranian top commander, with Iran vowing to take "tough revenge," and the Pentagon say

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Over 2,200 Afghan civilians killed in Taliban-related attacks in 2019

More than 2,200 Afghan civilians were killed in Taliban-related attacks and bomb blasts during 2019, the Afghan Interior Ministry confirmed on Saturday. "During 2019, Taliban terrorists conducted sc

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Two giant pandas born in Belgium win "Panda Cub of the Year" Gold Award

Bao Di and Bao Mei, the two giant pandas born last year in the Belgian zoo of Pairi Daiza, won the "Panda Cub of the Year" Gold Award on Friday. The ceremony of 2019 Giant Panda Global Awards was he

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Beijing's Kashmir diplomacy justifies UNSC's role to Kashmir

Indian paramilitary troopers stand guard on a snow-covered road after a snowfall in Qazigund area of Anantnag district, south of Srinagar, the summer capital of India-controlled Kashmir, January

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China, Islam and the law

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, an

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U.S. assassination of senior Iranian commander could cause regional tension

The U.S. assassination of Iranian Quds Force leader Qasem Soleimani that took place in Iraq overnight will probably negatively affect the region, analysts said. The growing tension of Iran and the U

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1 killed, 16 injured after under-construction building collapses in SW Cambodia

One Cambodian woman died and 16 others were injured after an under construction building collapsed in southwest Cambodia's Kep province on Friday, a provincial spokesm

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Iran-U.S. tension escalates after killing of senior Iranian commander in Iraq

Protesters gather in front of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq on Dec. 31, 2019. (Xinhua/Khalil Dawood) Iran-U.S. tension has dramatically escalated following the killing of a senior Iranian comman

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News Analysis: Iran's retaliation to Soleimani's assassination to probably occur from Lebanon

Retaliation from Lebanon to the assassination of Iran's senior commander Qassem Soleimani is highly possible, experts said. Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force, an

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Spotlight: Iran-U.S. tension escalates after killing of senior Iranian commander in Iraq

The tension between Iran and the United States has dramatically escalated following the killing of a senior Iranian commander in a U.S. airstrike on Friday in Iraq's c