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The TikTok case tests U.S. professed values

A logo of the video-sharing social networking company TikTok's Los Angeles Office, Culver City, Los Angeles County, U.S., August 21, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note: Yuan Sha is an assistant resea

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Commentary: Hong Kong LegCo election postponed to protect people's health

In the face of a resurgence in COVID-19 cases, postponing the Legislative Council (LegCo) election scheduled for early September is a timely and necessary move that protects the health of Hong K

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Kenyans angered by move to stop lions from giving birth

Kenyans were left angered on Thursday after the country's wildlife authority announced that it had implanted contraceptives in a lioness to stop it from giving birth to maintain a healthy food cha

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Record 79.5 million people displaced worldwide in 2019: UNHCR

A large refugee camp on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, near the town of Atma, in Idlib province, Syria, April 19, 2020. /AP More than one percent of the world's population is curre

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Global Business Daily: Nissan cull, easyJet job cuts, euro high

"There was no viable solution for the future of the Barcelona factory."These words from the chairman of Nissan in Europe, Gianluca De Ficchy, offered no consolation to the hundreds of workers protest

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AI can battle coronavirus, but privacy shouldn’t be a casualty

South Korea has successfully slowed down the spread of coronavirus. Alongside widespread quarantine measures and testing, the country’s innovative use of technology is credited as a critical factor in

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UK research funding at risk from fall in overseas students: academics

The predicted fall in international students at British universities will have a damaging effect on the wider research and development environment, according to research and analysis by the Higher Ed

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Europe reopens with caution, but questions about early cases remain

Europe is eager to get moving again. After weeks of living under lockdown in a collective effort to flatten the curve of COVID-19 infections, millions of Europeans are going back to work and schoo

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International cooperation, policy coordination vital to global economy

A currency trader watches monitors in the foreign exchange dealing room at the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, April 17, 2020. /AP Editor's note: Luo Zhiheng works at the Ch

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UN fears unprecedented crisis as COVID-19 threatens refugees

Migrants gather outside their container homes during a quarantine at the Ritsona refugee camp north of Athens, Greece, April 2, 2020. /AP Aid organizations have been sounding the alarm about t

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5G mast set on fire after 'baseless’ conspiracy theory link to coronavirus

Several videos claiming to show 5G towers on fire were posted to a page on Facebook, which encouraged copycat attacks.

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Stress, isolation, COVID-19: A nightmare cocktail for domestic abuse

Stock photo portraying domestic violence. /VCG In Austria this week, a man nearly beat his wife to death because the isolation and stress of staying at home "had become too much." In the U.S.,

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Tech giants should let startups defer cloud payments

Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are the landlords. Amidst the Coronavirus economic crisis, startups need a break from paying rent. They’re in a cash crunch. Revenue has stopped flowing in, capital marke

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Baby bumblebees brain damaged by insecticide

The chemical studied is banned from use on field crops in the EU but not in other parts of the world.

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Wu Lei lone bright spot as relegation worries deepen for Espanyol

Only time will tell if this hugely disappointing encounter will condemn Espanyol to the second division of Spanish football. But judging by their dreadful away display against Valladolid, which sa