BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing has named an official who became prominent during a crackdown on protests in a Chinese village as director of its new national security office in Hong Kong, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Friday. Zheng Yanxiong, 56, recently served as secretary general of the committee …
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When you imagine the Solar System in your head, most people think of the Sun, motionless and stationary in the center, with everything else buzzing around it. But each body in the Solar System also exerts its own gravitational pull on the star, causing it to move only slightly. Therefore, …
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The NBA announced Friday that it has finalized a plan for restarting the 2019-2020 season, which was arrested in March due to the coronavirus pandemic. The league also released a full game schedule for the remaining matchups. The season will resume on July 30, with what the league described in …
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The NHL Seattle expansion team is moving toward announcing its name, logo, and colors. “Some have speculated that it is a lot of free time. It is not,” NHL Seattle CEO Tod Leiweke said Thursday. “Vegas did it a year ago. We will do it long before that.” Vegas Golden …
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