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China dangles a potentially harmful new threat in trade war

Facing new trade sanctions and a U.S. clampdown on its top telecommunications company, China issued a pointed reminder Wednesday that it has yet to unleash all its weapons in its trade war with the Trump administration. Chinese state media warned that Beijing could cut America off from exotic minerals that are widely used in electric […]

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French Rock Star’s Instagram Defeats His Widow in Inheritance Battle

LONDON — Johnny Hallyday, known as the French Elvis, built his six-decade show business career on old-fashioned rock ’n’ roll, but he also kept up with the times technologically. From 2012, his Instagram account shared a canny mixture of the personal and the professional, promoting his tours, his albums and his image as one of

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Terry Pratchett Warns Of Online Fake News In 1995 Interview, Bill Gates Shoots Him Down

An old interview from 24 years ago has resurfaced in which the late fantasy author Terry Pratchett warned of the spread of fake news on the internet, but Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates dismissed his fears. Marc Burrows, who is writing a biography of Pratchett due for release next year, shared an image of the interview

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Cuba/US scientific cooperation declines under Trump

The degradation of relations between the U.S. and Cuba under President Donald Trump has begun to cut into scientific and medical cooperation on issues ranging from treatment of infectious diseases to coral reef preservation. A biomedical fellowship exchange program has been put on hold. Cuban cardiac nurses have stopped providing training to universities in Georgia

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Twitter And Facebook Crack Down On Iran-Linked Disinformation Scheme

Twitter and Facebook announced Tuesday that they had removed thousands of Iran-linked deceptive accounts in a crackdown on a disinformation network. In a statement, Twitter’s head of site integrity, Yoel Roth, said the company eliminated “more than 2,800 inauthentic accounts originating in Iran” earlier this month. “These accounts employed a range of false personas to

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