By Kathrin Ammann | Swissinfo.cn | 16 April 2020
China’s coronavirus aid for Europe has raised the question of whether the country is using the pandemic to build influence in the West. Yet many other, more direct, interventions from Beijing go virtually unnoticed, such as events in southwestern Switzerland last month.
By Tyler Pager | Bloomberg | 8 April 2020.
Joe Biden became the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee Wednesday after Bernie Sanders ended his presidential run, setting up the former vice president to face President Donald Trump in November.
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in intensive care on Tuesday after receiving oxygen support for serious COVID-19 complications, leaving his foreign minister to lead the government’s response to the accelerating outbreak.
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CNBC | 27 March 2020.
The United States now has more confirmed coronavirus cases than Italy and China, making it the country with the largest outbreak in the world.
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games have been postponed until next year because of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic.
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Iran and Italy’s economies are worsening, and their people are suffering most in this Wuhan virus outbreak — all because of their leaders’ short-sighted and foolish decisions.
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BBC | 6 Feb 2020 |
President Donald Trump has been cleared in his impeachment trial, ending a congressional bid to oust him from office that bitterly divided the US.
By Isil Sariyuce, Hamdi Alkhshali and Amir Vera | CNN | 26 Jan 2020.
Istanbul, Turkey: At least 36 people died and more than 1,607 have been hospitalized in eastern Turkey after an earthquake rattled the region on Friday evening, according to state broadcaster TRT Haber.
A veteran China-watcher has said that the new ethnic identity law in Tibet is reflective of Beijing’s current insecurities in the region whose population they have so far failed to integrate into the mainstream Chinese identity, despite repeated claims from the Beijing leadership stating otherwise.
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DHARAMSHALA: Shooting movie scenes at Buddhist temple at Mcleodganj (famously known as Dalai Lama temple), international cricket stadium and other landmark sites of this hill destination will be costlier from now on. Municipal Corporation has come up with the fee scheduled to be charged from the filmmakers coming to this hill town.
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