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China Used Twitter, Facebook More Than Ever Last Year for Xinjiang Propaganda

Activity by Chinese state media and diplomats on the social media platforms rose, as Beijing pushed an alternative narrative about its policies in Xinjiang toward Uyghur Muslims.

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Border agents, traffickers and migrants mix on the busy Rio Grande

The sun has barely set when Mexican traffickers inflate their boat, load 15 migrants on board, yelling at the kids to stop crying, and then row in a frenzy across the Rio Grande, landing on US soil in just a

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What Asia’s LGBTQ+ Movement Can Learn From Japan

On Mar. 17, a district court in Sapporo, Japan ruled that the government’s failure to recognise same-sex marriage was “unconstitutional.” The court also found that the official view of marriage—as exclusively a union between “both sexes”—contravened constitutional commitments to equality

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Countries Call for Pact to Improve Response to Next Pandemic

Government leaders from more than 24 countries have joined the head of the World Health Organization in calling for a new international treaty on pandemic preparedness and response, aimed at improving alert systems, data sharing and transparency, as well as

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Podcast: Daily Briefing Mar. 30 – What does ‘kingmaker’ Mansour Abbas stand for?

Tune in Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today

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Donald Trump uses new website to rewrite history of his presidency – The Guardian

Donald Trump uses new website to rewrite history of his presidency  The Guardian What Donald Trump’s 45office.com Site Says About His ‘Magnificent Legacy’  Newsweek Trump launches website along with wife to ‘put America first’  Boston Herald Donald Trump launches official website of 45th

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A trove of imported console games vanish from Chinese online stores

In the world’s largest gaming market, China, console games play a relatively small part as their revenue has been meager compared to mobile and PC games for years — at least by the official numbers (more on this later). There

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President Biden Announces Intent to Nominate 11 Judicial Candidates – Whitehouse.gov

President Biden Announces Intent to Nominate 11 Judicial Candidates  Whitehouse.gov

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Acast expands its support for paid podcasts with Acast+

After partnering with Patreon last year to support patron-only podcasts, Acast has developed a full suite of subscription tools called Acast+. The company has experimented with paywalled podcasts beyond Patreon in the past, but Acast+ appears to be its most comprehensive offering yet. Podcasters who

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IBM brings its Quantum System One to the Cleveland Clinic

IBM has installed a couple of its own Quantum System One machines across the world in recent years, but today it announced its first private-sector U.S. deployment thanks to a new ten-year partnership with the Cleveland Clinic. This not only

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