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China detains over 23,000 in anti-narcotics campaign

Chinese narcotics control authorities uncovered 20,542 drug-related criminal cases and arrested 23,178 suspects during the first five months of a year-long, anti-drug

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Public hospitals launch campaign to strengthen financial management

China has launched a campaign among the country's public hospitals to see that they strengthen their financial management and overhaul relevant problems, in a bid to b

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U.S. tariffs on Canadian aluminum to hurt both economies, Trudeau says

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday that it will hurt U.S. and Canadian economies if the Trump administration imposes new tariffs on Canadian aluminum.

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Disney postpones "Mulan" release again amid ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

Photo shows Liu Yifei, who plays the title character in Disney's film "Mulan," at the film's world premiere ceremony in Los Angeles, California, the United States, Marc

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Daily Crunch: Just Eat Takeaway confirms its Grubhub acquisition

Food delivery takes a big step toward consolidation, Amazon announces a moratorium on providing facial recognition tech to law enforcement (but there are loopholes) and Twitter tests a way to scold us

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Amazon won’t say if its facial recognition moratorium applies to the feds

In a surprise blog post, Amazon said it will put the brakes on providing its facial recognition technology to police for one year.The moratorium comes two days after IBM said in a letter it was leavi

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Netanyahu, Gantz say close to unity gov't deal as Gantz' mandate extends to Wednesday midnight

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival, Benny Gantz, said late Monday that a unity government deal was close following their late-night meeting t

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News-reading app Flipboard expands local coverage, including coronavirus updates, to 12 more U.S. metros

Earlier this year, personalized news aggregation app Flipboard expanded into local news. The feature brought local news, sports, real estate, weather, transportation news and more to 23 cities across

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Religious services curbed across Mideast over virus fears

Religious authorities moved to cancel or limit weekly prayer gatherings across the Middle East on Friday to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus as they encou

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"Mulan" director hopes "fighting spirit" in movie to inspire global battle against COVID-19

Niki Caro, director of Disney's China-based female hero film "Mulan," voiced her hope that the heroine's "fighting spirit" would inspire the world at "this difficult ti

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Debate night brawl: Bloomberg, Sanders attacked by rivals

From the opening bell, Democrats savaged New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg and raised pointed questions about Bernie Sanders’ take-no-prisoners politics during a cont

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Bangladeshi PM unveils founding father-authored book about China

Bangladeshi Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina speaks during an interview at Grand Hyatt Hotel in Manhattan, New York, U.S. September 25, 2018. /Reuters PhotoBangladeshi Pri

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Latin America Roundup: Loft raises $175M, Softbank invests in Mexico’s Alphacredit and Rappi pulls back

Brazil’s famously-tricky real estate market has long drawn international investors to the region in search of tech solutions. This time, Brazilian startup Loft brought

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China, Brunei jointly unveil Tourism Year 2020

A joint tourism year initiative was officially launched here on Friday evening by high-level officials of China and Brunei to mark the start of a one-year event in tou

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Spotify and Warner Chappell end dispute in India, sign global licensing deal

Spotify is ending its year-long dispute with Warner Music. The world’s largest music streaming service said on Tuesday that it has inked a global licensing agreement w

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Chinese UN envoy calls for more cooperation with Damascus to offer Syrians aid

China's ambassador to the United Nations (UN) on Friday called on humanitarian organizations to step up their cooperation with the Syrian government to deliver relief