SHANGHAI — As China tries to reshape the narrative of its fumbled response to the coronavirus outbreak, it is turning to a new breed of police that carry out real-world reprisals for digital misdeeds. The internet police, as they are known here, have gained power as the Communist Party has worked to seize greater control […]
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Britain’s anti-doping body is expected to look into allegations in a newspaper report in which a farmer said he was offered money to provide an alibi in support of Tyson Fury for a case involving the world heavyweight champion March 16, 2020, 9:50 AM 2 min read LONDON — Britain’s anti-doping body is expected to
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BERLIN — The Trump administration attempted to persuade a German firm developing a possible vaccine for coronavirus to move its research work to the United States, German officials said, raising fears in Berlin that President Trump was trying to assure that any inoculation would be available first, and perhaps exclusively, in the United States. The
When the natural hair movement swept America a decade ago, it was supposed to encourage Black women to love their hair in its natural state with the help of products and regimens specific to and best for Black hair. But by glamorizing looser curls and prioritizing techniques and products to create “defined curls,” the movement
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Image copyright Getty Images The BBC is to delay TV licence fee changes for the over-75s until August in light of the coronavirus situation. Free TV licences for up to 3.7 million people had been due to be scrapped on 1 June, but that has been put back to 1 August. These are “exceptional circumstances”
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Image copyright PA Media The government will show flexibility over rail firms’ franchise agreements during the coronavirus outbreak, the transport secretary has suggested. Grant Shapps said he would be meeting rail bosses this week to determine how to “sustain” services amid falling passenger numbers. He added that there would be no point running “ghost trains”,
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The leader of the IOC’s coordination commission for the Tokyo Olympics says there is no May deadline to cancel the games and he remains confident the event will go ahead despite sports coming to a virtual standstill globally amid the coronavirus epidemic March 16, 2020, 11:37 AM 3 min read SYDNEY — The leader of
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“Regardless of whether my plan was in place or his, this is a crisis,” Mr. Biden said. “This is like we are being attacked from abroad. This is something that is of great consequence. This is like a war. And in a war, you do whatever is needed to be done to take care of
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European Union leaders are set to hold a virtual summit Tuesday to weigh steps the bloc is taking to combat the fast-moving coronavirus By LORNE COOK and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press March 16, 2020, 12:09 PM 3 min read BRUSSELS — European Union leaders are set to hold Tuesday a summit via video-conference on efforts
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The medical impact of the new coronavirus is coming into sharper focus as it continues its spread in what is now officially recognized as a pandemic. Its true fatality rate isn’t yet known, but it seems 10 times higher than the flu, which kills hundreds of thousands around the world each year, the United States’
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