Maloth Arunkumar

Saturday, 5 December 2020

Coronavirus India Live Updates: Active COVID-19 Cases Drop To 4,09,689

Coronavirus India Live Updates: The ministry said that the present active caseload comprises 4.26% of the total positive cases, and new recoveries have led to a net decline of 6,393 in the total...

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Donald Trump Says "We're Winning This Election" At First Post-Poll Rally

Donald Trump launched into another litany of baseless claims that the US presidential election was stolen from him at his first post-poll rally on Saturday, telling the crowd he would still end up...

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Britain Gets Ready For Roll-Out Of Pfizer's COVID-19 Vaccine

Britain is preparing to become the first country to roll out the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine this week, initially making the shot available at hospitals before distributing stocks to doctors'...

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Trump presses Georgia governor to help overturn result

The US president holds his first post-election campaign rally in Georgia ahead of key Senate runoffs.

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Britain's Queen Elizabeth To Get Covid-19 Vaccine "In Weeks": Reports

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will receive the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine within weeks, after UK regulators granted emergency approval and the world's first roll-out begins next week, reports...

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14 Indian Seamen, Released By Yemen Houthis, Fly Back Home Via Dubai

Fourteen Indian seamen who were stranded in Yemen for over 10 months after their ship sank in the Gulf of Aden flew back to India on Saturday from Dubai.

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Covid tensions in US hotspot of North Dakota: 'Grow up, mask up'

One in every 800 North Dakotans has now died from Covid, but people remain split on how seriously to take it.

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Couple divided for nine months by Covid and an ocean

A special pass for long-distance couples allowed Tina and Victor to reunite after nine months on different sides of the world.

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Friday, 4 December 2020

Obama and Jordan basketball vests sell for record sums

Sports shirts worn by the former president and the Chicago Bulls star were auctioned in Los Angeles.

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World's biggest iceberg captured on camera

A reconnaissance flight in the South Atlantic obtains spectacular imagery of the giant iceberg A68a.

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Chinese coal miners killed by carbon monoxide poisoning

State TV says 18 miners are dead and five others missing in the south-west Chongqing municipality.

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Review: Led By Gary Oldman, 'Mank' Recreates Old Hollywood

Mank Movie Review: Gary Oldman is 62. In 1940, Herman J. Mankiewicz was 33. It is fascinating to watch the veteran actor pull off the role of a man half his age.

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Serum Institute's Adar Poonawalla 1 Of 6 "Asians Of The Year": Report

Adar Poonawalla, the chief executive of the world's largest vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India, is among six people named "Asians of the Year" by Singapore's leading daily, The Straits...

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36,652 New Cases Push India Covid Tally To 96 Lakh; 1.3 Lakh Total Deaths

36,652 fresh COVID-19 cases in India, marginally higher than yesterday; 96.08 lakh total cases, 1,39,700 deaths

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"Band Baaja Baraat'' Gang Attended Weddings For Theft, Used Minors: Cops

The Delhi Police has arrested seven members, including two juveniles, of a gang named "Band Baaja Baraat", who attended big fat weddings in the city uninvited and indulged in theft, officials said on...

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As Deadlock Continues, Farmers, Centre To Meet For Round 3 Talks Today

The government and farmers will again hold talks today to resolve the deadlock over the controversial farm laws as the protests across the country intensify amid growing support. Thousands of...

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Coronavirus: Defiant ski nations bid to save winter season

Many of Europe's ski slopes will be closed, but the Swiss and Austrians have made their own plans.

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New Zealand's Stuff news group apologises for anti-Maori bias

After a deep dive into their reporting, Stuff found their coverage of Maori issues had been racist.

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Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: Cutting through the information blackout

"It is really scary. It is really difficult," a resident of the Tigray capital, Mekelle, shouts down the line.

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No Deal Between US And TikTok As Asset Sale Deadline Nears: Report

Short-form video app TikTok and the Trump administration had not come to terms over sale of the company's US operations late Friday as a deadline loomed, according to a source familiar with the...

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Bahrain Becomes Second Country To Approve Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine

Bahrain announced on Friday that it had approved the emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, becoming the second country after Britain to green-light the drug.

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Delhi Raises Monthly Dearness Allowance For Staff In Various Categories

The Delhi government has enhanced monthly dearness allowance for its unskilled, semi-skilled, skilled and other category workers, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Friday.

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5th Round Of Talks Between Farmers, Centre To Be Held Today

Farmer union leaders will hold fifth round of talks with the government today over the controversial farm laws that they want repealed.The farmers have called a nationwide shutdown on Tuesday, saying...

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Week in pictures: 28 November - 4 December 2020

A selection of striking images taken around the world this week.

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"Last Wish Fulfilled": Pakistan Refugees On Voting First Time

Tears well up in the eyes of 87-year-old Lal Chand and his 82-year-old wife Trivita as they hold up their inked fingers after casting their votes in the third phase of District Development Council...

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Coronavirus Updates: Over 36,000 Cases In India In Last 24 Hours

Coronavirus India Live Updates: Addressing an all-party meeting over the coronavirus situation in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, experts believe the wait for the vaccine will not be...

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Reluctance On Free Trade Agreement Talks From EU Side: S Jaishankar

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday said negotiations for a free trade agreement between India and the European Union were stuck for the last six years due to reluctance of the grouping.

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Biden: 'I don't think Covid vaccine should be mandatory'

The US president-elect says he'll do "everything in my power... to encourage people to do the right thing".

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US Senate Passes Bill To Name Post Office After Sikh Cop

The US Senate has unanimously passed a legislation to name a post office in Houston after slain Sikh police officer Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal, who was gunned down in the line of duty during a routine...

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Beirut explosion: The abandoned ship in the blast 'war zone'

This is what happened to Lebanon's only cruise ship, which was docked in the explosion's epicentre.

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Fighting air pollution: 'Without solidarity the world will be doomed'

Nineteen-year-old Abhiir Bhalla has campaigned against air pollution in Delhi most of his life.

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Thursday, 3 December 2020

China's Chang'e 5 Probe Lifts Off From Moon For Earth With Lunar Samples

A Chinese space probe has lifted off from the surface of the Moon to return to Earth, an ambitious effort to bring back the first lunar samples in four decades.

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Moderna To Supply Up To 125 Million Vaccine Doses Globally By June 2021

Moderna said on Thursday it expects to have between 100 million and 125 million doses of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine available globally in the first quarter of 2021.

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Review: 'Sons Of The Soil' Is Unusual Fare

Sons Of The Soil Review: Abhishek Bachchan serves as the principal narrator of the series. The boys of Jaipur Pink Panthers are in awe of him. It is a collision of two dissimilar, if not opposing,...

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Joe Biden Asks Top Doctor Fauci To Join His Covid Team

US President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday said he had asked the government's top infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci to remain in his post and join his Covid-19 team after he takes office.

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Anthony Fauci Apologises For Casting Doubt Over UK's Vaccine Approval

Top US infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci apologised on Thursday for casting doubt on the rigour of the British regulators who approved the Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19, saying he had faith...

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Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton Vow To Publicly Receive Covid Vaccine

Former US presidents Barack Obama, George W Bush and Bill Clinton as well as President-elect Joe Biden are volunteering to take a coronavirus vaccine on camera if it will help promote public...

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No Breakthrough In Talks Between Centre, Farmers; Next Meeting Tomorrow

Talks between three union ministers and a representative group of thousands of agitating farmers failed to yield any resolution on Thursday, as the union leaders stuck to their demand for the repeal...

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GHMC Elections 2020 Results LIVE Updates: Counting Begins

The counting for the bitterly-fought Hyderabad civic body polls has begun.

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US Sues Facebook For Allegedly Favouring Immigrants Over US Workers

The Trump administration on Thursday sued Facebook, accusing it of discriminating against American workers by favoring immigrant applicants for thousands of high-paying jobs.

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US Logs Record High Of Over 2.1 Lakh Covid Cases In 24 Hours: Report

The United States recorded more than 210,000 Covid-19 cases in 24 hours on Thursday, according to Johns Hopkins University, in an all-time high for the country since the start of the pandemic.

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Coronavirus Updates: Over 35,000 Covid Cases In India In Last 24 Hours

India recorded 35,551 new COVID-19 infections, taking the country's coronavirus case tally to 95.3 lakh, the government data shows.

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"Not An Asteroid...": NASA Gives Details Of Object Orbiting Earth

Scientists at the US space agency NASA have said that the Near-Earth object orbiting the planet since the month of September is a 1960's-Era Centaur rocket booster.

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Egypt arrests: Three human rights members released from detention

Three men accused of having links with a terror group have been released from detention in Cairo.

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Nasa to pay company $1 to collect moon rocks

The US space agency has awarded two American and one Japanese firm contracts to pick up lunar soil.

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Counting Today For Hyderabad's Bitterly-Fought Civic Polls: 10 Points

Despite the high-pitched campaign by nearly all parties, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) polls reported an unimpressive 46.55 per cent turnout on Tuesday with 34.50 lakh people...

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BJP Expels 10 Members For "Anti-Party Activities" In J&K

The Jammu and Kashmir BJP on Thursday expelled 10 members for anti-party activities after eight of them contested the District Development Council (DCC) polls and the panchayat by-elections in the...

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The hidden story of African-Irish children

The mixed-race Irish people searching for their African roots.

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Norway excavates a Viking longship fit for a king

A rare excavation south of Oslo will provide new details about Viking culture.

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How a blow to Australian wine shows tensions with China

The once successful trade story now represents a worst case scenario of the bilateral tensions.

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Coronavirus: Is India's test and tracing strategy working?

The country has recorded the second highest number of Covid-19 cases globally.

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"No Need For Me To Tap Phones Of Colleagues": Uddhav Thackeray

Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) is firm, said Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday while adding that there is no need for him to ''tap'' the phones of his colleagues.

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China and Australia: How a Twitter spat quickly escalated

It started with a shocking tweet, and swiftly led to censorship and furious insults.

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Thailand’s youth rebellion: Protest movement demands monarchy reform

A student-led protest movement has started demanding reform of the monarchy and an end to military coups.

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Wednesday, 2 December 2020

For Priyanka Chopra, Husband Nick Jonas Is A "Real Life Bollywood Hero"

"I can't believe how lucky I am, and how quickly the time has gone," wrote Nick Jonas

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Sensex, Nifty Likely To Open Higher Today

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Analysts awaited the RBI Governor-led Monetary Policy Committee's review statement due later this week for near-term cues.

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LIVE Updates: Kerala, Tamil Nadu On Alert As Cyclone Burevi Nears

Kerala is on high alert as Burevi inches closer to its shores, with the cyclonic storm expected to cross Thiruvananthapuram by Friday and affect seven districts over 72 hours starting today.

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Many Indians Keen On Going To UK To Get Covid Vaccine: Travel Agents

Travel agents have started receiving enquiries from Indians who want to travel to the UK as soon as possible to get the COVID-19 vaccine that was approved on Wednesday by the British government.

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China influence 'on steroids' targets Biden team - US official

A US intelligence official says Beijing is targeting people close to the incoming US president.

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US Covid Daily Deaths Surpasses 2,700, Highest Since April: Monitor

The number of deaths linked to coronavirus in the US surpassed 2,700 in one day as of Wednesday evening, the highest since April, Johns Hopkins University said.

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Amarinder Singh To Meet Amit Shah Ahead Of Talks Between Centre, Farmers

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh will meet Home Minister Amit Shah at his residence today, ahead of the talks between the Centre and farmer leaders over their agitation against the new farm laws.

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Bengal Governor Vs Trinamool Over Non-Implementation Of Ayushman Bharat

Medical infrastructure in West Bengal is "stressed" during the pandemic as the state has not implemented the Centre's Ayushman Bharat scheme, which Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar claimed has played a...

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Puducherry Chief Minister Hits Out At Governor Over Excise Duty On Liquor

Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy on Wednesday hit out at Lt Governor Kiran Bedi for rejecting the government proposal to scrap special excise duty on liquor, saying it was proof of her "misuse...

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Hospitalised Covid Patients Top 100,000 For First Time In US

The number of people being treated in US hospitals for Covid-19 topped 100,000 for the first time on Wednesday, a monitor said.

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LIVE: India's COVID-19 Tally Nears 95 Lakh-Mark, Over 1.38 Lakh Deaths

India recorded 36,604 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, taking the total Covid caseload to nearly 95 lakh. The number of fresh infections is over 17% higher than Tuesday's figure. Up to 501...

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Former French President Dies Of COVID-19 At 94

Former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing, who led his country into a new modern era and onto a firmly pro-European path, died late Wednesday of Covid-19, his family said.

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Russian influence under threat in its own back yard

Moscow is hailing its Nagorno-Karabakh peace deal but the war has revealed the limits of Russia's reach.

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Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: 'How the conflict made my uncle a refugee in Sudan'

A BBC reporter's relative fled to neighbouring Sudan by foot and boat, losing his shoes on the way.

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South Korea: The life-changing exam that won't stop for a pandemic

Despite a third wave, nearly 500,000 South Koreans will sit for critical university entrance tests.

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Will Santa have enough bikes for Christmas Day?

Millions of bicycles were sold this year, with fears there won't be enough for the festive period.

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'Covid ended our marriage': The couples who split in the pandemic

Around the world, previously happy couples are splitting up and divorcing due to the stress of the pandemic.

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Mango dress: Teen makes 1,400-mango gown to highlight food waste

Australian teenager Jess Collins says she wants to draw attention to how many mangoes are left to rot.

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India Slams Pakistan For Violating UN Resolution

India on Wednesday slammed Pakistan for violating the resolution on Culture of Peace passed last year and arbitrarily transferring the management of the Sikh holy shrine - Kartarpur Sahib Gurudwara,...

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5 Including Three Children Drown In Madhya Pradesh

Five persons, including three children, drowned to death in Pacheti dam in Agar Malwa district on Wednesday, police said.

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China's WeChat Blocks Australian Prime Minister In Doctored Image Dispute

China's WeChat social media platform blocked a message by Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison amid a dispute between Canberra and Beijing over the doctored tweeted image of an Australian soldier.

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Coal Combustion Responsible For Almost 100,000 Deaths In India: Report

As hopes of a COVID-19 vaccine grow in the closing weeks of 2020, the Lancet medical journal has drawn attention to what Bill Gates and others say could be worse than the pandemic - climate change.

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Iran nuclear crisis: Law aims to boost enrichment and block inspectors

Uranium enrichment would increase to 20% with UN inspectors blocked, if sanctions are not eased.

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Tuesday, 1 December 2020

Sensex Drops Over 50 Points, Nifty Below 13,100; Financial, IT Stocks Fall

Stock Market LIVE Updates: At 8:36 am, the SGX Nifty futures traded 19.50 points - or 0.15 per cent - higher at 13,155.50.

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First Lung Transplant In Delhi Is On Post-Covid Patient

A 31-year-old man, who had contracted COVID-19 a few months ago, has successfully undergone a lung transplant surgery, lasting 10 hours, at a private facility after the organ was transported from the...

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US Justice Department Investigates "Bribery For Pardon" Scheme

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating a potential crime related to funneling money to the White House in exchange for a presidential pardon, according to court documents unsealed in federal...

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"Don't Leave Trash In The Desert": US Monolith Removal Explained

The mystery of how a metal monolith appeared in the Utah desert remains, but the riddle of its removal seems to have been solved -- and sadly, has nothing to do with aliens.

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Singapore Becomes First Country To Approve Sale Of Lab-Grown Meat

Singapore has given US start-up Eat Just the greenlight to sell its lab-grown chicken meat, in what the firm says is the world's first regulatory approval for so-called clean meat that does not come...

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Sydney storm sets bell tower ablaze and cuts power to thousands

Lightning sparks a fire in a heritage building as damaging winds cut power to 20,000 homes.

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'Juno' Star Elliot Page Comes Out As Transgender

The Oscar-nominated star of "Juno" has come out as transgender, introducing himself as Elliot Page on Tuesday in social media posts that voiced joy at sharing the news -- but also fear over a possible...

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China Says Australia "Misled" Offending Social Media Post

China's embassy in Australia said politicians there had "misread" a tweet showing a digitally-altered image of an Australian soldier holding a bloodied knife to the throat of an Afghan child, and were...

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