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Xi invokes Chinese military might with US in mind
Beijing frequently uses war anniversaries to fire thinly covered warnings to the US of the military strength of the 'new China'.
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US gives full approval to antiviral remdesivir to treat COVID-19
Other medications, like the steroid dexamethasone, are also being used in the fight against COVID-19.
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US condemns 'excessive' use of force by military in Nigeria
Amnesty International says at least 38 people, including 12 in the capital Lagos, were killed by the Nigerian army and police in a brutal crackdown on protesters Tuesday that drew international condemnation.
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No knockouts at Biden, Trump debate 12 days before US vote
The most heated early exchanges were over mutual accusations of graft.
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Trump walks out of major CBS interview, complaining about questions
Trump tweeted that he wanted to preempt the network's own broadcast of the interview on its "60 Minutes" show Sunday in order to reveal journalist Leslie Stahl's "bias, hatred and rudeness."
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France extends COVID curfew to cover 46 million people
He refused to be drawn on whether that could mean the whole country being placed under a second lockdown in the run-up to the Christmas holidays.
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Senate committee approves Trump court nominee as Democrats boycott
The unanimous vote, with all Democrats absent, sets the stage for full Senate approval at the beginning of next week on Barrett, who will tilt the high court firmly to the right.
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Two French women charged over 'racist' stabbing of veiled Muslim women
The case comes amid heightened racial tensions following the jihadist killing last week of a French teacher who had shown his pupils cartoons of the prophet Mohammed.
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Trump and Biden to do battle in final debate
The pair's last televised showdown spiraled into an ugly confrontation marred by interruptions and name calling, prompting organizers to introduce mic-muting this time to try to keep things civil.
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Why are Hong Kong and Taiwan bickering over the fate of a murderer?
The strangulation of 19-year-old Poon Hiu-wing by Chan was a crime that set off a chain of events still reverberating today.
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TikTok cracks down on hate of religions and races
The platform has already banned posts denying the Holocaust.
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Obama warns Biden supporters not to be 'complacent' despite polls
The former president made the comments in his first public rally in support of Biden, warning of the errors in opinion surveys before Trump's shock 2016 victory.
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Germany reports record new virus cases in 24 hours
The figure far exceeds the next highest total of 7,830 recorded last Friday, and is a steep jump from the 7,595 cases reported on Wednesday by the Robert Koch Institute.
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Pope says he supports civil unions for gay couples
In the film, 'Francesco' by Evgeny Afineevsky, the Argentine pope says that gay people have the right to be in a family.
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We will not give up cartoons: Macron in homage to murdered teacher
France will not give up cartoons, President Emmanuel Macron vowed Wednesday in a homage to teacher Samuel Paty, beheaded for having shown caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to pupils in a lesson on free speech.
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Spain becomes first EU nation with one million virus cases
The country recorded 16,973 confirmed cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, the health ministry announced, taking the total to 1,005,295 since its first case was diagnosed on 31 January on the remote island of La Gomera in the Canary Islands.
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Air pollution killed 500k newborns in 2019: global study
A new global study said that nearly two-thirds of the deaths came from noxious fumes from cooking fuels.
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Pupils pointed French teacher out to killer 'for €300-350'
Samuel Paty was attacked on his way home on Friday from the junior high school where he taught in the suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
