The United States government plans to carry out the first federal execution in nearly two decades, despite objections from the victims’ families and after a series of legal proceedings related to the risks caused by the coronavirus pandemic. . Daniel Lewis Lee of Yukon, Oklahoma is scheduled to die by …
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The Chinese government has announced sanctions against US officials, including Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, in response to US sanctions for Beijing’s treatment of ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang province. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said retaliatory sanctions will apply from Monday, but did not elaborate …
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The World Health Organization has reported another record of the increase in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in a 24-hour period, by more than 230,000. The previous world record was on Friday, with more than 228,000 new cases worldwide. According to the Johns Hopkins University tracker, which is based …
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A senior ally of Donald Trump defended the dangerously misleading claim by the President of the United States that 99% of coronavirus cases are “totally harmless” and dismissed a national mandate to wear masks. Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, said the number of Americans killed by Covid-19 …
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Chinese lawmakers are trying to criminalize identity theft on college entrance exams, after revelations that hundreds of students in a single province had their scores stolen or used by others. This year, more than 10 million students will sit in China gaokao, a state-level college entrance exam widely seen as …
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