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Despite promises by top Hong Kong officials that China’s draconian national security law, which contains 66 articles and criminalizes succession and subversion, to terrorism and conspiracy, would affect only a small fraction of its 7 million inhabitants, almost every facet of ‘ the once independent enclave – from education to …

Kamala Harris, Joe Biden’s history-making vice-presidency for the 2020 elections, comes from a family of immigrants whose roots and political views strongly shaped them. Here’s what we know about the California Senator’s family. Her parents were civil rights activists Harris grew up in a household with a Jamaican father and …

In the hurtful, slapdash fantasy action thriller “Project Power”, people get high by swallowing a tablet that looks like a cross between an old Contact-cold relief capsule and a small light bulb. The lower half of the pill is dark and ridged, the upper half is a bright orange Tesla …

LONDON / TOKYO (Reuters) – Global equities dipped on Friday after loud Chinese economic data and concerns about a slowdown in U.S. fiscal stimulus discouraged some investors from taking risks. FILE PHOTO: A pedestrian in the offices of the London Stock Exchange in the City of London, UK, 29 December …

The UK government said on Friday it had signed deals for a further 90 million doses of coronavirus vaccines as the country raced to secure supplies of experimental shots to combat the pandemic. Under the new agreements in principle, the American medicine developer Novavax NVAX, + 7.12% will supply 60 …