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Millions of people sent into Covid lockdown in China

Authorities in China’s Xi'an have put the city on lockdown, closing all non-essential shops and barring all restaurants from opening, after reporting some 140 domestically transmitted Covid cases in the last 10 days. In a press conference on We..

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France rejects 1,000s of doses of Covid anti-viral treatment

France has canceled its order for Merck’s new Covid-19 antiviral treatment molnupiravir due to its weak performance in trials, and ordered Pfizer’s Paxlovid instead, Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Wednesday. “With molnupiravir, we had to canc..

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Chinese Hydropower Project in Argentina Is Stuck in Limbo

The Santa Cruz Hydroelectric Project in Argentina is a key cooperation project between China and Argentina. The $4.7 billion dam project is being carried out by a consortium led by China’s state-owned Gezhouba. However, the financing agreement is cur..

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Germany’s ethics council rules on mandatory vaccination

Germany’s leading ethics body has supported the idea of extending mandatory coronavirus vaccination to all adults, stressing, however, that direct coercion and use of “physical violence” on the unvaccinated must remain off-limits. The country’s Ethi..

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Cyprus: The Next Stop of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

In November 2021, China and Cyprus formally announced their strategic partnership on the 50th anniversary of their diplomatic ties, which is of milestone significance to bilateral relations. The two heads of state decided to upgrade the China-Cyprus ..

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Travel curbs in Xi’an over surge in Covid cases

The northern city of Xi'an dramatically tightened Covid travel controls on Wednesday to fight a growing outbreak, with people banned from boarding trains without official permission and hundreds of flights cancelled.With Beijing preparing to hos..

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Support of economy to be stepped up: state planner

China has the confidence, condition, and ability to keep economic growth at a reasonable level, a senior state planning official told the Xinhua News Agency.The world's second-largest economy faces multiple challenges heading into 2022, as a pro..

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China imposes counter sanctions on US nationals

China said on Tuesday it has imposed sanctions on four US nationals in what it says is a "reciprocal countermeasure" to Washington's earlier sanctions against four mainland officials over Xinjiang issues. The Foreign Ministry said the four are N..

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Tech Regulation in China Brings in Sweeping Changes

When Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of internet giant Alibaba, told China’s financial elites on October 24, 2020 that their incompetence had created a severely underdeveloped financial system and insinuated that his fintech may be the cure, his wor..

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‘Tone-deaf on the role of journalism’ – Pulitzer Prize-winner on EU regulator’s attack on RT

A German regulator’s depiction of RT DE as an “irritant” to be disposed of is both humorous and ignorant about the role of journalism in covering power, said Pulitzer Prize-winning American reporter Chris Hedges. “Of course” the actions by German re..

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Study reveals how to get ‘super Covid immunity’

With the Omicron variant of Covid-19 seemingly able to overcome vaccine-induced immunity to some degree, researchers in Oregon have come up with a new formula for “super immunity” – and it ultimately involves catching the virus. Although early resea..

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Turkey blasts EU over stalled accession talks

Turkey has accused the EU of “strategic blindness,” criticizing the bloc’s decision this week to keep membership talks with Ankara in stalemate as being “detached from reality” and based on “ideological motives.” The Turkish foreign ministry stated ..

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