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An independent commission will reflect on the feasibility of a poll scheduled for next March. The trend is rather to postpone to 2022.
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China pledged to buy an additional $ 200 billion in US goods over two years, and achieved a real record of overseas purchases (its trade surplus slumped to $ 37 billion from 58.9 billion dollars). the previous month), but all this was not enough. In September, the Asian giant's surplus with Uncle Sam increased further by $ 30.75 billion, according to figures released Tuesday by Chinese Customs, the last before the November 3 presidential election. That is an increase of 18.8% over one year!
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The virus responsible for Covid-19 could recombine with another. This would not necessarily be serious, say the researchers, but vigilance is required.
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Unemployment is high in Taranto, Italy, and the port there has been steep in recent years due to declining ship traffic. But this summer, the ship "Nicolas" docked there and it was thought to be good news.
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The Trump Administration’s long-threatened TikTok ban is here, but don’t plan a funeral for the popular video app just yet. Beginning Sunday, both Apple and Google will be forced to stop making TikTok available to download on their app stores. Likewise, TikTok will not be able to update its software after Sunday. Nevertheless, users who …
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The Trump administration will issue an order banning Americans from downloading TikTok as the video-sharing app rushes to seal a deal with US software giant Oracle, a new report says. The Friday order from the US Commerce Department will ban Apple and Google from offering TikTok — along with another Chinese-owned app, WeChat — on …
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Swedish clothing company H&M said Tuesday that it is severing ties with Chinese yarn producer Huafu Fashion over accusations that the supplier uses “forced labor” of ethnic and religious minorities in the Xinjiang province of China. H&M admitted that the company had an “indirect business relationship with one mill” owned by Huafu Fashion in Shangyu in the province …
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A former U.S. ambassador to China claimed on Wednesday that the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and the Hong Kong protests of 2019 “went too far,” while also denying that China is engaged in a genocide of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province. Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy, who served as U.S. envoy to China from 1991 to …
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Director Judd Apatow slammed the U.S. film industry on Tuesday for what he termed the “censorship” of stories that highlight human rights abuses in China and other nations. Apatow, a director of comedies including Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, made his comments after Disney released a live-action remake of Mulan that included scenes filmed …
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National security regulators are reviewing a proposal that would leave ByteDance, TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, with a majority ownership stake in the short-form social media app. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., or Cfius, reviewed the deal that includes California- based tech firm Oracle’s bid to …
An independent commission will reflect on the feasibility of a poll scheduled for next March. The trend is rather to postpone to 2022.
