SYDNEY / TOKYO (Reuters) – Australian states tightened borders and restricted visits to bars on Tuesday, as Disney prepared to close its Hong Kong and Japan theme park, intensifying the search as a jump in new cases of coronavirus in Asia fueled fears of a second wave of infections. FILE …
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More than 600,000 people participated in the vote over the weekend, designed to reduce the number of pro-democracy candidates in the September elections to the city legislature. Similar efforts have been attempted in previous years, but this was the most organized so far, as the opposition aims to take advantage …
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Near Tokyo, two fragments of a fireball that were seen earlier this month have been found in the night sky over wide areas of Japan. The fireball was a meteorite that was observed around 2:30 a.m. on July 2 in the Kanto region of eastern Japan and elsewhere. A resident …
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Text size The Tesla showroom and service center in Amsterdam. (Photo by JOHN THYS / AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images This conversation with Baillie Gifford’s partner and global equity chief James Anderson about Tesla’s shares is excerpted from Barron’s recent mid-year Roundtable, released on July 10. To …
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More than 40 people, mostly civilians, were injured after gunmen clashed with security forces after a car bomb exploded at a government complex in Samangan province in northern Afghanistan. The attack claimed by the Taliban group on Monday took place at a government facility in Samangan’s capital Aybak, near an …
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