Indictment accuses 12 of illegally trading shark fins, drugs
SAVANNAH, GA (AP) — Federal authorities say they indicted 12 people and seized nearly $8 million in cash, jewels and precious metals after disrupting a criminal enterprise that dealt drugs and sold...
View ArticleTikTok picks Oracle over Microsoft in Trump-forced sales bid
NEW YORK CITY (ABC News) — The owner of TikTok has chosen Oracle over Microsoft as its preferred suitor to buy the popular video-sharing app, according to a source familiar with the deal who was not...
View ArticleStudy says too much time on moon could lead to health risks for astronauts
BEIJING (WWAY) – A new study found that too much exposure on the moon’s surface could pose health risks to astronauts. The journal “Science Advances” studied lunar radiation levels and found that it’s...
View ArticleTrump bans US investment in Chinese military-linked firms
BEIJING (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump has stepped up a conflict with China over security and technology by issuing an order barring Americans from investing in companies that U.S. officials say...
View ArticleUS, Taiwan step up economic cooperation in new dialogue
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The U.S. and Taiwan are stepping up cooperation in a newly created economic dialogue, in another move from the outgoing Trump administration to increase official exchanges with...
View ArticleChina gives conditional approval to Sinopharm COVID vaccine
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese health regulators have given conditional approval to a coronavirus vaccine developed by state-owned Sinopharm. The inactivated, two-dose vaccine is the first one approved for...
View ArticleHong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai’s bail revoked
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has had his bail revoked after prosecutors succeeded in asking the city’s highest court to send him back to detention. Lai had been granted bail on...
View ArticleHong Kong arrests 53 activists under national security law
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police have arrested 53 former lawmakers and activists in the largest move against the city’s pro-democracy movement since a national security law was imposed last June. A...
View ArticlePanel: China, WHO should have acted quicker to stop pandemic
GENEVA (AP) — A panel of experts commissioned by the World Health Organization has criticized China and other countries for not moving to stem the initial outbreak of the coronavirus earlier and...
View ArticleChinese app TikTok cuts jobs in India following ban
NEW DELHI (AP) — Popular short-video Chinese app TikTok is cutting its workforce in India after hundreds of millions of its users dropped it to comply with a government ban on dozens of Chinese apps...
View ArticleChina bans BBC news broadcasts in apparent retaliation
BEIJING (AP) — China has banned BBC World News from airing in China, a week after threatening to retaliate for the revocation of the British broadcasting license for China’s state-owned CGTN. The...
View ArticleUS, China wrap up testy 1st face-to-face talks under Biden
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Top U.S. and Chinese officials have wrapped up two days of contentious talks in Alaska after having traded sharp and unusually public barbs over vastly different views of each...
View ArticleUS, China consulted on safety as their crafts headed to Mars
BEIJING (AP) — As their respective spacecrafts headed to Mars, China and the U.S. held consultations earlier this year in a somewhat unusual series of exchanges between the rivals. China’s National...
View ArticleChina gets a flying start on building its own space station
CHINA (CBS News) — China launched the first module of a planned space station on Wednesday. The Chinese space agency hopes to complete the sophisticated research lab in 2022, securing its status as a...
View ArticleChinese crewed spaceship docks with new space station
JIUQUAN, China (AP) – State media say a Chinese spaceship carrying a three-person crew has docked with the country’s new space station at the start of 3-month mission. The Shenzhou-12 craft connected...
View ArticleNC group fights against CDC ban on importing dogs
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WSOC) — A new order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has some animal rescue groups angry, desperate, and trying to get exemptions before it takes effect on July 14....
View ArticleMicrosoft Exchange hack caused by China, US and allies say
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration and Western allies formally blamed China on Monday for a massive hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software and accused Beijing of working with criminal...
View ArticleMicrosoft Exchange hack caused by China, US and allies say
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is blaming China for a hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software that compromised tens of thousands of computers around the world earlier this year....
View ArticleNo. 2 US diplomat Sherman to visit China as tensions soar
WASHINGTON (AP) – Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will travel to China on a visit that comes as tensions between Washington and Beijing soar. Sherman will be the highest-ranking U.S. official...
View ArticleChina calls US policy ‘misguided’ in high-level talks
TIANJIN, China (AP) – China has blamed the U.S. for what it called a “stalemate” in bilateral relations as high-level face-to-face talks begin in the Chinese city of Tianjin. A state media report says...
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