TROUBLED STATES If infections are slow in many other countries, India still reports more than 50,000 cases per day. The total of more than 2 million cases traces only the United States and Brazil, and cases show no signs of slowing. Since the pandemic in India, more than 46,000 people …
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BENGALURU – Baton-wielding police on Wednesday afternoon patrolled a barricade and abandoned streets in parts of Bengaluru’s southern Indian technical hub after three people were killed in overnight clashes fueled by a Facebook post offensive against Muslims. The violence began late Tuesday, with mobs placing stones, burning cars and setting …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian tax authorities raided the property of several Chinese entities and their staff for money laundering, according to an official statement late Tuesday, adding to New Delhi’s growing discomfort with Beijing following a border crash in June. Since the clash, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has …
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(Reuters) – President Donald Trump has threatened to end the short video app TikTok and messaging service WeChat by the end of September on the grounds that the apps pose a national security threat in Chinese. It would mark the first time the United States has attempted to shut down …
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The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide reached 20 million on Tuesday – more than half of them in the US, Brazil and India – and the death toll is more than 737,000, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. It took about six months to reach 10 million cases, …
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