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People’s Liberation Army soldiers participate in a ceremony in a file photo. (Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images) BY ISABEL VAN BRUGEN Nearly 160 China-watchers worldwide have signed an open letter this week in…

Candidate for the position of director-general of the World Health Organization David Nabarro gives a press conference in Geneva on Jan. 26, 2017. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images) BY IVAN PENTCHOUKOV…

  A barber wearing a face mask and protective shield gives a client a haircut at a barbershop in Prague, Czech Republic, on May 11, 2020. (Gabriel Kuchta/Getty Images) BY ISABEL…

A man wearing a mask rests on a bench during the CCP virus pandemic in Oldham, England, on July 29, 2020. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) BY LILY ZHOU School closures and isolation…

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft, right, meets James K.J. Lee, director-general of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, for lunch at a restaurant in…

BY ZACHARY STIEBER A group of four Australian law professors have nominated U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, the third nomination he’s received in recent weeks. The nomination is based on…

A Chinese paramilitary police officer gestures and speaks over his two-way radio whlie standing at the entrance gate of the Australian embassy in Beijing on July 9, 2020. (Nicolas Asfouri/AFP…

The logo of the social network Facebook on a broken screen of a mobile phone on May 16, 2018. (Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images) BY DANIEL Y. TENG Facebook is threatening to…

A passenger plane that crashed after it overshot the runway is seen at Calicut International Airport in Karipur, southern state of Kerala, India, August 7, 2020, in this still image…

BY MIMI NGUYEN LY President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the deadly explosion that killed at least 100 people and injured more than 4,000 in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, “looks like a terrible attack.”…